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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
I so stand corrected but I was actually thinking the entire front.
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The longest seige of the war was Lennigrad where again the Germans ignored V.C and got side tracked and locked into protracted battles that never offered a chance of deliveirng the decisive blow against the Soviet center of gravity. They made the same mistake at Verdun, while it was the right decsion at Sedan.
One reason I prefer VC over ST is friction. the AoW seems to read like a recipe book. Do this and you'll get that, but life doesn't work that way. If you do A, then B probably will follow, but you'd better be prepared for a different lettter or maybe even a whole new alphabet.
I also like VC becuase he drive shome the point about finding the center of gravity. A general spoon fed ST might have the best army ever seen on paper, but did the AoW teach him how to use it on the feild of battle once the fighting actually starts? To an extent using an army effectively is almost a magical skill. History has more bad commanders than good, but at least with On War, a commander can be trained to look for the obvious centers of gravity and go after them.