The defences around Moscow are indeed rather week, but that's mainly due to me having destroyed pretty much all its defensive forces in earlier battles. I usually take the screenshots at the end of my turn, so you don't see the many Red Army units that didn't survive my attacks. So far I've destroyed more than
180 Soviet divisions, not counting all the independent regiments and brigades. The USSR rebuilds its forces in 1941 at a frightening pace, but even the Red Army needs time to recuperate from such losses.
The defences around Leningrad are quite formidable, my only chance of taking the city quickly with limited losses is by cutting those forces off, which my Panzer attack will hopefully do. Cut-off units in WitE suffer some serious penalties to morale and combat power, so even large, well dug-in armies will succumb to attack in a short time.
Turn 12In the north I grind my way up to the coast, one more push and the giant pocket around Leningrad is sealed.
In the centre I cut off another another 24 Soviet divisions and continue to push around Moscow with my Panzerdivisions.
In the south I take
Sumi, close in on
Kharkov and surround 7 divisions near
Poltava. 16th Panzerdivision swings around Zaporoshye.