The Competition & Teaser Thread

[ComradeP]

I love puzzles, but that screenshot is making my head spin for the moment.

According to the OOB I have in front of me, the only Tank Corps with a Guards Tank Regiment directly attached to it at Kursk was the 18th. However, the depicted Tank Corps also has a Guards Mortar battalion or something like that, which the 18th didn't have according to this OOB.

There were only two Guards Mechanized Corps in the central part of the Kursk area, the 3rd and the 5th. The 6th participated in Kutuzov. The dimensions of the map seem to limit the map to from the active parts of 4th Panzer Army and III Panzer Korps units up to Prokhorovka.

The area looks somewhat similar to what the Msensk area looks like in Moscow '42, and there is a north/south major road that might be it, but the dimensions of the map prevent it from including the area Kutuzov was launched in and on the Moscow '42 there is no swampy terrain in the area. Furthermore, all units presented thus far were situated in the south.

That means that unless north isn't actually north on this map, it has to be the eastern flank of Kempf or something like that as the fact that all of III Panzer Korps divisional commanders are there and not them+replacements (which the title supports) precludes Rumyantsev being included, which in turn gives its own problems.

In terms of dimensions, the scenario in the screenshot covers about a quarter of the main map on the X axis and about a third on the Y axis.

The main thing that makes this difficult to solve is: what is that Guards Mechanized Corps doing there if it isn't the 5th? The Rumyantsev attacks came in primarily from the north, in this case they come in from the east along some 30-ish kilometres of the front. Another question is who the guys in light blue are and why they have Tigers.