The Competition & Teaser Thread

[ComradeP]

I'm sitting here smiling. You could tie yourself in knots trying to work out what your looking at without guidance.

Yeah, Xaver and me have been on a mad frenzy to make the most out of every scrap of information you've been giving us. You might've been waging a maskirovka campaign that would've made Stavka proud if this isn't a Kursk game somehow.

I haven't seen posted anywhere a Guards Mortar unit with the aforementioned Tank Corp - where did you get that idea? I have just gone through the thread and I can't see anything here...?

In that zoomed out screenshot of the large scenario, there is what looks like a Guards Mortar/Katyusha icon 11 hexes down from the top of the map with the Tank Corps with the Guards (Heavy) Tank Regiment.

After thinking about it, I guess that my error might be that I overestimate the scale of the depicted units. For example: if that collection of Guards Rifle units is in fact 3 battalions in a row, the unit is most likely a Guards Tank Corps. My assumption that with this many infantry units, it would be a Guards Mechanized Corps. Similarly, the Guards unit in the center is presumably a Guards brigade (though there's a regimental HQ) of some sort and not a full division.

You've made it a lot more difficult with what seem to be partial units in the north. If they're just elements of Tank Corps (missing their Motorized Rifle brigade), at least my guess for those units might be accurate (with a battalion HQ for the Motorized Rifle companies attached to each of the Tank Brigades). The HQ's without a visible scale indicator would be the corps HQ's, unless my eyes deceive me there are X's on the other HQ's.

If the Wehrmacht is light blue, that changes things. Furthermore, that does mean the other units are SS so my initial guess might've been less far from the mark than I assumed. The nearly straight frontline with the Soviets coming in more or less directly from the (north)east is still peculiar if it isn't Prokhorovka. I'll check a map of II SS Panzer Korps' march route, maybe that will clear things up.