While there are 'ifs' and 'buts' over the OTL Hitler Plan, which of the others would have been more successful - IYO?
There's the Marcks Plan - https://www.bing.com/images/search?...dindex=8&qpvt=barbarossa+war+plans&ajaxhist=0
The Halder Plan - https://www.bing.com/images/search?...rbarossa+war+plans&ajaxhist=0&selectedindex=3
The Hitler Plan - https://www.bing.com/images/search?...rbarossa+war+plans&ajaxhist=0&selectedindex=2
The first is too concentrated north and south of the Pripet Marshes, making a logistical nightmare. With the flanks at the north vulnerable - may not secure the Baltic states let alone anything else, and in the south leaving Romania vulnerable!.
The Halderr Plan looks the best, apart from the widening gap between the centre and the south especially after Moscow is taken, perhaps the follow ons should be east & south east, rather than north and east.
While in the OTL plan or Hitler's interference with the Halder Plan his wish to weaken the Moscow thrust in favour of Leningrad after Smolensk is taken - in the event he had a 180 degree change of mind!
How different would your plan be?
There's the Marcks Plan - https://www.bing.com/images/search?...dindex=8&qpvt=barbarossa+war+plans&ajaxhist=0
The Halder Plan - https://www.bing.com/images/search?...rbarossa+war+plans&ajaxhist=0&selectedindex=3
The Hitler Plan - https://www.bing.com/images/search?...rbarossa+war+plans&ajaxhist=0&selectedindex=2
The first is too concentrated north and south of the Pripet Marshes, making a logistical nightmare. With the flanks at the north vulnerable - may not secure the Baltic states let alone anything else, and in the south leaving Romania vulnerable!.
The Halderr Plan looks the best, apart from the widening gap between the centre and the south especially after Moscow is taken, perhaps the follow ons should be east & south east, rather than north and east.
While in the OTL plan or Hitler's interference with the Halder Plan his wish to weaken the Moscow thrust in favour of Leningrad after Smolensk is taken - in the event he had a 180 degree change of mind!
How different would your plan be?