Hitler eventually makes it to the US

It's probably a bad sign that my first thought was "Hjalmar Schacht? +10% IC!" :eek:
Just a sign that you've got good taste in computer games.

Huge parts of Red Army did "spontaneously disappear", i. e. were defeated piecemeal, surrounded and overcome with modest German losses, in June and early July 1941 - and, after the advance had slowed down somewhat in August, the Germans achieved a number of similar brilliant victories in September (Vyazma, Kiev...)

Suppose that most of the rest of Red Army spends end of October and November in trying to retake Moscow and defend Kuibyshev. And suffer a similar string of disastrous defeats. The rest after that does try to hold or counterattack against German vanguards here and there, but never succeeds for long.
Um ... you do realize that there's a big difference between a force being destroyed as a result of being decisively defeated in battle and just saying "All the Soviet armies disappear."

If Germany spends September going for Moscow the only way they can manage it is to not divert forces for the offensive that resulted in the Kiev pocket, and probably even move forces from the South into Army Group Center to support the attack. They might end up regretting that when the 600,000 or so Soviet troops that don't end up killed or captured in the Kiev offensive launch a big counter-attack that might do very nasty things to their exposed flanks.

Ah yes. So Rommel will not get much more land forces... but some more air support, no?
I know this might come as a shock, but airplanes need supplies too you know. Rommel can't supply his current force; adding more of anything is just going to make his supply situation worse.

The war could eventually be expanded by moves into the Middle East via other fronts, but Rommel's force can't do much more than it did OTL.
 
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