CODEX: THE KOVENANT IMPERIAL ARMY.

Blitzkrieg Doctrine.

The Blitzkrieg Doctrine...

The Blitzkrieg Doctrine is the primary fighting style for the Kovenant Imperial Army, as it uses the greatest strengths of the Empire's military strength to win victories. Combined with 51st Millennium era developments had made this doctrine one of deadliest and most lethal forms of warfare in the entire galaxy, combining fast moving Panzers supported by Infantry and assisted in the air by the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine to achieve victory over any enemies of the Reich.
You see, the Kovenant is not only a fully mechanised and or motorised force, but it was also an army which had seen use for its massive ammounts of armoured units.
The Kovenant does not simply utilises Panzers, it improves them and has since than become the heart of any Kovenant army.

This is no more exemplified than within the Kovenant's Blitzkrieg Doctrine.

The Kovenant favours rapid and aggressive maneuver warfare to achieve its victories.

Blitzkrieg utilises the Panzers to rapidly breakthrough any and all enemy lines, which would than be exploited by the Panzers to rapidly break through, while supporting Infantry Regiments would exploit the breach to envelop the enemy defensive lines and cause an encirclment with the support of Luftwaffe and Artillery
elements.
Blitzkrieg relied upon the Panzers to be the tip of the spear as they rapidly move around advance hundreads upon hundreads upon hundreads of miles within but a single day.

Blitzkrieg relies upon speed, shock, surprise, as well as the overwhelming firepower of the Panzer Regiments supported by Panzer Grenadiers, regular Infantry Regiments, as well as Artillery and Air support elements to rapidly break the enemy lines, as well as to engage enemy forces...

It is a military doctrine in which a surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations, together with close air support from the Luftwaffe with the intent to break through the opponent's lines of defense, then dislocate the defenders, unbalance the enemy by making it difficult to respond to the continuously changing front, and defeat them in a decisive "Battle of Annihilation"

Essentially, the shock and Awe and firepower of the Panzers supported by their organic Panzer Grenadiers.
Regular Infantry Regiments, Artillery, Luftwaffe air support and sustained by a highly advanced and ever more sophisticated and reliable logical system to keep all those men, Panzers and others in the field.

Schwerpunktprinzip was often used to make decisions from tactics to strategy about priority. Schwerpunkt has been translated as centre of gravity, crucial, focal point and point of main effort.

None of these forms is sufficient to describe the universal importance of the term and the concept of Schwerpunktprinzip. Every unit in the army, from the company to the supreme command, decided on a Schwerpunkt through schwerpunktbildung, as did the support services, which meant that commanders always knew what was most important and why. The Kovenant army was trained to support the Schwerpunkt, even when risks had to be taken elsewhere to support the point of main effort.

Through Schwerpunktbildung, the Kovenant army could achieve superiority at the Schwerpunkt, whether attacking or defending, to turn local success at the Schwerpunkt into the progressive disorganisation of the opposing force, creating more opportunities to exploit this advantage, even if numerically and strategically inferior in general.

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Once a breakthrough of the enemy's line has been achieved, units comprising the Schwerpunkt were not supposed to become decisively engaged with enemy front line units to the right and left of the breakthrough area. Units pouring through the hole were to drive upon set objectives behind the enemy front line.

Kovenant Panzer forces used mechanised mobility to paralyse the opponent's ability to react. Fast-moving mobile forces seized the initiative, exploited weaknesses and acted before the enemy forces could respond. Central to this was the decision making of the officers on the ground.
Through superior mobility and faster decision-making cycles, mobile forces could act quicker than the forces opposing them.

Directive control was a fast and flexible method of command and the Kovenant uses it often.

Rather than receiving an explicit order, a commander would be told of his superior's intent and the role which his unit was to fill in this concept. The method of execution was then a matter for the discretion of the subordinate commander.

Thus the Staff burden was reduced at the top and spread among tiers of command with knowledge about their situation. Delegation and the encouragement of initiative aided implementation, important decisions could be taken quickly and communicated verbally or with brief written orders. Though primarily through communications networks.

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The last part of an offensive operation was the destruction of un-subdued pockets of resistance, which had been sorrounded and cut off earlier and by-passed by the fast-moving armoured and motorised spearheads. The Kesselschlacht 'cauldron battle' was a concentrated attack on such pockets. It was here that most losses were inflicted upon the enemy, primarily through the the deaths of large numbers of enemy soldiers and from those lucky enough to be taken prisoner.

huge encirclements during Blitzkrieg created millions of dead soldiers and captured POWs.
Typically resulting in the Annihilation of whole Regiment sized formations.

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The Blitzkrieg Doctrine, combined with the advanced technology of the Kovenant Empire, has made it into not just the best strategy and tactic for the Kovenant Empire and its Panzers... But it is the primary means in which they will fight a planet spanning war across the thousands of war torn worlds in the Galaxy.

The Kovenant Empire is famous for its Panzers, and German engineering has made the Panzers into a truly Terrifying, yet practical and effective tool of war. Able to perform all manner of duties across most types of terrain, while still be highly effective againts tanks and Infantry.

The Kovenant Empire is infamous for its Panzers and not just the numbers that they are produced in, but also the sheer quality of them.