[Freightshaker]

Rommel's habit of 'rushing to the front' would've been catastrophic. Who's to say he would but judging from past experience he would have. In Africa his HQ would lose contact with him and they would be left up to their own ideas or guesses as to his intent, he even was almost captured at one point.

I'm in the camp with those that think he was a great divisional commander, an average corps commander and out of his depth in anything above that. Besides being overshadowed by better commanders, he tended to become physically
ill by overwork and stress.

The audacity that was successful in France and North Africa would not have been repeated in Russia, especially after mid 43' when Russian operational art started to overshadow Germany.