Fabio Governato's Eastern Front 1941-1945 v6 has POs and great documentation. It's Corps/Army level primarily, although some unit types like some Soviet mech units, AT units, and airborne units for instance are lower level. Fabio implemented such features as: reserve units which arrive at varying times to be disbanded for reinforcements, Soviet factory removal timelines, force composition changes over time, and more.
The document suggests that occasionally the player should take over from the PO to move air units forward and adjust objectives. I just did that on turn 6 and so far I only did the air unit rebasing.
I started off with Fog of War, but I'm an old boardgame player, and it's just more enjoyable for me to see the whole board, so I turned FOW off about turn 4. To compensate for that a bit, I use a House Rule that requires me to attempt to maintain a continuous front line, units or zones of control - to fight the temptation to isolate or pick off stray PO units, or to take unrealistic, unplanned advantage of holes in the PO line.
Early game the Soviet player has to stall the German advance long enough to allow for the relocation of factories to the Urals, and to allow for mobilization to get going. The following cities need to be held on to, at least up to the given turn, to forestall loss of reinforcements later on:
Moscow (T24), Smolensk (T4),
Kiev (T6), Dnepropetrovsk (T6), Bryansk (T7), Karkhov (T8), Sevastopol (T8) and Rostov
(T10)
By turn 6 now, I have succeeded in evacuating production facilities and material from Smolensk, Kiev, and Dnepropetrovsk, but it's been a very close call.
Holding on to Bryansk, Kharkov, and Sevastopol long enough seems doable at this point, although the Germans have broken into the Crimea and took Odessa long ago.
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