Soviet Armies in Fronts

Following the previous operations of Barbarossa, lots of changes appeared in the Soviet organization, and quickly in October, some others will happen:

• The Reserve Front disappears in the Vyazma battle.
• The 51st Army (in Crimea), retreating, is attached to the Transcaucasian Front the 30/11/1941.
• The 56th Army, in Rostov-on-Don, joins the South Front in December 1941.
• These new Fronts are created:
  • 17/10/1941: Kalinin Front
  • 12/1941: Bryansk Front (II)
  • 26/01/1942: Crimea Front
  • 19/05/1942: North Caucasian Front
  • 19/06/1942: Voronej Front
  • 12/07/1942: Stalingrad Front
  • 01/08/1942: South East Front
  • 29/09/1942: Don Front
  • 22/10/1942: Southwestern Front
  • 01/01/1943: South Front
  • 15/02/1943: Central Front
  • 22/03/1943: Ural Front
  • 06/04/1943: Reserve Front (if already removed)
  • These Front are disbanded:
  • 10/11/1941: Bryansk Front
  • 12/07/1942: Southwestern Front
  • 28/07/1942: South Front

I choose to simplify some of the Front creation and destruction:

• A Front must be removed from the game if its attached armies are removed from the map (destroyed, retired, or breakout)
• A Front may be removed if it has less than two attached armies
• The Bryansk Front, disbanded in November 1941 and recreated in December is kept alive between these dates.
• The Moscow Defence Zone (two Armies) is not taken into consideration.
• Even though the Separate Coastal Army (Maritime HQ) in Sebastopol is not attached to any Front between August and October 1941, I choose to attach it to the Southern Front.
• The renamings of Fronts in March and April 1943 are not taken into consideration.

Final choices

For the October 1st, 1941 situation, I chose the following structure of Fronts and Armies:

• NW
  • 11
  • 27
  • 34
• W
  • 16
  • 22
  • 19
  • 20
  • 29
  • 30
  • 32
• Reserve
  • 24
  • 31
  • 33
  • 43
  • 49
• Bryansk
  • 3
  • 13
  • 50
• SW
  • 10
  • 12
  • 21
  • 38
  • 50
• Sud
  • 9
  • 18
  • 56
  • Maritime
• Transcaucasian
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 51

Unanswered questions

• Should we have a maximum number of Armies attached to a Front? If yes, are the Armies without Front suffering in some way?
• Should the air units be equally distributed between Fronts (through the Air Armies attached to them)?
• Should the SP be equally distributed between Fronts (or between Front in specific postures with minimum and maximum)?

Do you have any idea. comment about this? Please let me know.