Drang Nach Osten: German set-up
German set-up
German pre-war production
German player's notes
War situation
Germany controls all of Germany (including East Prussia and Austria (but no Austrian units available)), has aligned Czechoslovakia (but no Czech units available), has conquered Poland (west of the Nazi-Soviet partition line), Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Iceland. Note that Germany gained 4 extra convoy points from Finland (3) and Latvia (1). Any planes that don't have a pilot are placed into the reserve pool.
Special note for German carrier planes: draw 3 carrier planes. You may place them each on any carrier.
As usual, only convoy points may be set up at sea for a neutral major power.
Set up within 5 hexes of the Soviet border:
- Manstein, Rommel, Bock
- 6 ARM, 4 MECH, 3 MOT, 10 INF, 2 MTN, 1 motorized AT, 1 leg AT, 1 motorized ENG, 1 leg ENG
- 11 pilots, 5 FTR-2, 2 FTR-3, 4 LND-2, 6 LND-3
Set up within 5 hexes of the French border:
- Leeb
- 1 MECH, 3 INF, 6 GAR, 2 leg ART, 1 AA, 1 leg AT
- 5 PIL, 4 FTR-4, 2 LND-2, 2 LND-3, 1 NAV-3, 1 NAV-4
- a 3-sided FORT, 2-sided FORT, and 1-sided FORT
Set up in any controlled hex:
- Rundstedt
- 4 INF, 1 PARA, 2 INF divisions
- 5 PIL, 4 FTR-2, 1 FTR-3, 1 LND-2, 3 LND-3, 1 ATR-3
- CV: Elbe, Graf Zeppelin, Peter Strasser; BB: Bismarck, Frederick de Grosse, Gneisenau, Grossdeutschland, Scharnhorst, Schleisen, Schleswig-Holstein, Tirpitz, von Hindenburg; CA/CL: Admiral Hipper, Admiral Scheer, Blucher, Deutchsland, Graf Spee, Kiel, Konigsberg, Lutzow, Nurnberg, Prinz Eugen; 1 AMPH, 1 TRS, 15 CP; 2 SUB
Construction Pool:
- BB: von Moltke; CA/CL: von Mackensen; 5 SUB
July/August 1942
- Kesselring; INF; 2 PIL, 2 FTR-2, LND-2
September/October 1942
November/December 1942
January/February 1943
- CV: Kleist [fu], Yorck [fd]
March/April 1943
- CV: Seydlitz [fu], BB: Moritz [fu]
Scrap Pool
- CA: Seydlitz; FTR: Ar-68, HE-51; LND: Do17E, Ju-86D (all planes are the PIF versions)