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There isn't anything the Germans could have done with a 1942 POD to win Stalingrad once Hitler split up Army Group South to attack the oilfields and Stalingrad simultaneously. Paullus was simply given a task where if the Soviets did what they did OTL, there was nothing he could do.

But there is a way the Germans could win. One involves borderline ASB, with the Soviets just keep missing their shots. If it's possible to miss 1,000 times in a row, isn't missing every single shot possible?

Alternately, the Germans could win with Soviet tactical stupidity.

Well, I'm wondering how stupid they need to be. Let's go with pushing the medium tanks (like the T34) and the heavy tanks to the maximum, ordering them to attack the German front in September of 1942. And I mean "full speed ahead" even if that means not waiting for supporting infantry or even the ammo truck to catch up. Is this dumb enough? Or do we need to make them even dumber to lose (I think at this point, the Soviets outgunned the Axis forces 3 to 1 and outnumbered them even more in this theatre and the German supply line is streached)?
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