Bad news first (in my opinion): I think 1k prestige is too few. It might be enough to win this scenario, but in the long run you will be in trouble, because you will desperately need prestige at least from 1943 on. Overstrengthening is one thing that eats up prestige quickly. And every overstrength strength point you loose hurts much more. I usually overstrength only artillery (and only one point), anti-air (up to the limit), Oleh Dir (up to the limit; overstrenghtening him costs a bit less because I don't give him a transport) and of course Rudel (the second one
). But every player has his own routine.
I could write some things about tactics in Minsk 41, but alternatively you might have a look at my attached replay. I play on General level with the 1.20 rules, reform units on and dice chess. And I turned the soft cap off, which isn't yet that important in 41.
As you will see in the replay I fly the "second" Rudel to an airfield in his turn of arrival and upgrade him from Ju 87B to Ju87R, which I find quite useful. The "R"-version is a bit better against armored targets and less effective against soft targets, but it has more than two and a half the fuel of the "B"-version, which I find very useful for Minsk.
Good luck for your next try!
