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#43_0901_02: The Donbas Strategic Offensive Operation, Second Phase (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Campaign -Location: Donbas Region
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This campaign scenario describes the second phase of the offensive operation in the Donbas after the fall of Taganrog.
Scenario Briefing: Following the August operations and the capture of Taganrog, the Southwestern and Southern Fronts simultaneously attacked the 1.Panzerarmee and 6.armee, the former defending their positions along the Severnyy Donets and the latter retreating from their old positions on the Mius and the city of Taganrog. The Germans had built several intermediate lines to allow an orderly retreat towards the Dnepr and the approaches to the Crimean Peninsula, the most important of which was built by the Todt organization during the weeks prior to the Soviet attack in August. This line ran from Slavyansk to Konstantinovka and from there to Makeyevka, protecting the city of Stalino, the nerve center of the Donbas region. The city of Stalino had also been fortified by the German army, calling this position the "turtle position" where the German command placed its confidence to stop the Soviet armies in case of a front breakthrough. The Southwestern Front, starting from its positions in the Severnyy Donets which had been so hard won since the beginning of the offensive in August, was to advance south-west through the positions of the 1.Panzerarmee and thus threaten the flank of the 6.armee while the Southern Front was to advance towards Stalino and along the coast towards Mariupol in pursuit of the 6.armee, both fronts having as their ultimate objective to reach the Dnepr and the entrance to the Crimean peninsula, in order to liberate the rich region of Donbas.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_03: The Donbas Strategic Offensive Operation, Second Phase (Scenario with LVP)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Campaign -Location: Donbas Region
Intended for play as Soviet vs AI or HTH
Designer Notes: This campaign scenario describes the second phase of the offensive operation in the Donbas after the fall of Taganrog. This scenario contains Limited Victory points (LVP).
Scenario Briefing: Following the August operations and the capture of Taganrog, the Southwestern and Southern Fronts simultaneously attacked the 1.Panzerarmee and 6.armee, the former defending their positions along the Severnyy Donets and the latter retreating from their old positions on the Mius and the city of Taganrog. The Germans had built several intermediate lines to allow an orderly retreat towards the Dnepr and the approaches to the Crimean Peninsula, the most important of which was built by the Todt organization during the weeks prior to the Soviet attack in August. This line ran from Slavyansk to Konstantinovka and from there to Makeyevka, protecting the city of Stalino, the nerve center of the Donbas region. The city of Stalino had also been fortified by the German army, calling this position the "turtle position" where the German command placed its confidence to stop the Soviet armies in case of a front breakthrough. The Southwestern Front, starting from its positions in the Severnyy Donets which had been so hard won since the beginning of the offensive in August, was to advance south-west through the positions of the 1.Panzerarmee and thus threaten the flank of the 6.armee while the Southern Front was to advance towards Stalino and along the coast towards Mariupol in pursuit of the 6.armee, both fronts having as their ultimate objective to reach the Dnepr and the entrance to the Crimean peninsula, in order to liberate the rich region of Donbas.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_05: The SouthWestern Front in September (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Medium -Location: Severnyy Donets River
Intended for play as Axis vs AI or HTH
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the operations of the Southwestern Front in September.
Scenario Briefing: The Southwestern Front under Malynovski was stationed along the Severnyy Donets which was defended by General Eberhard von Mackensen's 1.Panzerarmee. Since the beginning of the operation in the Donbas in mid-August, the Southwestern Front had made some small advances at the cost of bloody losses due to the brilliant German defense, these advances allowed the Southwestern Front to establish strong positions on the west bank of the Severnyy Donets where the 46th Army, 6th Army, 8th Guards Army and 12th Army secured bridgeheads to resume the advance westwards, also the 3rd Guards Army managed to cross the Severnyy Donets liberating the city of Lisichansk and then pursuing the retreating German units. The Southwestern Front resumed the offensive on 1 September simultaneously with the Southern Front. The objective was to break through the German front and head southwest to threaten the flank of the 6.armee, which was defending the city of Stalino, in order to allow an orderly retreat towards the Dnepr, something that Malinovsky had been ordered not to allow.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_07: Storm in Taranovka (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Taranovka
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario details the pressure exerted by the 46th Army from Severnyy Donets against the southernmost flank of the 8.armee in early September 1943.
Scenario Briefing: The 46th Army under General Glagolev arrived as reinforcements to the northernmost area of the Southwestern Front, replacing the units of the 1st Guards Army defending this sector. The 46th Army began operations against the XXXXII.armeekorps of General Wohler's 8.armee, this army corps defended the southernmost part of its sector in connection with the 1.Panzerarmee. The objective of the 46th Army was to bypass the 1.Panzerarmee through the XXXXII.armeekorps and head southwest towards Pavlograd. For this mission, the General Glagolev had six Rifle Divisions and an artillery Division with which to defeat the units of the XXXXII.armeekorps. This Corps, under the command of General Mattenklott, had three Divisions, a weak 6.Panzer Division, an infantry Division and an SS cavalry Division that had arrived in this sector of the front to reinforce the defensive positions very recently.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_09: Sredny-Zavodskoy Bridgehead (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Sredny-Zavodsky Bridgehead
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: The scenario describes the operations of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps of the 6th Army in its advance south from the Sredny-Zavodskoy bridgehead.
Scenario Briefing: During the beginning of operations in the Donbas in mid-August, the 6th Army was ordered to cross the Severnyy Donets. The mission was entrusted to the 26th Guards Rifle Corps, which successfully crossed the river despite the heavy losses it suffered. The result was that the 6th Army gained a bridgehead on the west bank of the Severnyy Donets. The 26th Guards Rifle Corps was later replaced by the 4th Guards Rifle Corps of General Zaporozhchenko. The bridgehead at Sredny-Zavodskoy would serve to threaten the positions of the XXXX.PanzerKorps under Henrici's command, who despite all his efforts could not eliminate or reduce it. And what's more, the bridgehead also endangered the rear of the divisions defending the Soviet advance from the Izyum bridgehead. When the Soviet advance restarted at the beginning of September, the 4th Guards Rifle Corps would attack south from the bridgehead and attempt to form an anvil on which the remainder of the Soviet 6th Army could smash the XXXX.Panzerkorps.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_12: Hammer and Sickle in Dogel'kaya (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Dolgen'kaya
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: The scenario describes the operations of the 8th Guards Army from the Dolgen'kaya sector.
Scenario Briefing: The 8th Guards Army had an important mission when operations resumed in September. This army, which had been kept in reserve during the August operations, like the 46th Army, was inserted between the two armies that had led the advance of the Southwestern Front during the first phase of the Donbas operation, the 6th Army and the 12th Army. The 8th Guards Army under General Chuikov, with two Guards Rifle Corps, the 28th and 29th, and more importantly the 1st Mechanized Corps, which would be the unit that would lead the push in a southwestern direction, had suffered some wear and tear in the preceding phase, but the rest of the 8th Guards Army was in a remarkable state, so Chuikov had formidable units at his disposal to undertake the breach of the German defensive lines. The Soviet planning of the attack was relatively simple: the Guards infantry units would attack the German defensive lines with the aim of creating gaps through which the mechanized units of the 1st Guards Mechanized Corps could pass and launch themselves towards their main objective, the town of Barvenkovo.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_14: The Liberation of Slavyansk (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Slavyansk
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the liberation of the city of Slavyansk by the 12th Army, the city had been the scene of fighting between 1941 and 1943.
Scenario Briefing: The 12th Army under General Danilov was tasked with liberating Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, both cities having been heavily fortified in the preceding years as they had been the focus of fighting during 1941-1943 and had passed from one side to the other several times since then. The defence of the area was entrusted to the 387.Infanterie Division of the XXXX.PanzerKorps, although there were several units of the 333.Infanterie Division of the XXX.armeekorps defending the Severnyy Donets, both divisions were veteran units that had been fighting in the area for a long time, so they had solid defensive positions to protect the approaches to Slavyansk. The 12th Army had two Rifle corps, the 66th and 67th, supported by the 9th Artillery Division, and the commander of the Southwestern Front had added the 1st Cavalry Corps to exploit the success of the operation and advance south with the intention of capturing Kramatorsk, where, along the Kazennyy Torets, the Germans had built a defensive line in case the XXX.armeekorps and the IV.armeekorps of the 6.armee had to withdraw from their positions on the Severnyy Donets in the east, so the Soviet operation to liberate Slavyansk and Kramatorsk became vital in this sector.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_16: To Barvenkovo! (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Medium -Location: Barvenkovo Area
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the main offensive of the Southwestern Front in early September executed by the 6th, 12th and 8th Guards Army in the direction of Barvenkovo.
Scenario Briefing: The Southwestern Front was positioned along the Severnyy Donets, although since the beginning of the August offensive it had achieved a solid bridgehead on the western bank of the river. From these places, the Soviet 6th Army, the 8th Guards Army and the 12th Army would set out in early September with the objective of breaking through the German defensive lines and capturing the towns of Lozovaya and Barvenkovo, important logistical and communications nodes, and the cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, both along the Kazennyy Torets where the Germans had erected important defenses to protect the city of Stalino, the nerve center of the Donbas. To support the advance of these three armies, Malynovski added the 23rd Tank Corps, the 1st Mechanized Corps and the 1st Cavalry Corps as reinforcements of the three armies to provide impetus and speed to the attack from the Severnyy Donets. Once these cities were captured, part of the Southwestern Front would move towards Pavlograd and from there to the Dnepr, with the objective of preventing the Germans from erecting a strong defensive line along the imposing river. The 3rd Guards Army, having crossed the Kazennyy Torets at Kramatorsk, would support the Southern Front in capturing Stalino and advancing towards the Dnepr.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_18: Charge to the West, the 3rd Guards Army Attacks (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Artemovsk Area
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the fighting in the Artemovsk region between the 3rd Guards Army and the XXX.armeekorps of the 1.Panzerarmee in early September 1943.
Scenario Briefing: Scenario Briefing: Tolbukhin's Southern Front consisted of the 51st Army, the 5th Shock Army, the 2nd Guards Army, the 28th Army and the 44th Army. Once the strategic offensive operation in Donbas began in mid-August, the Southern Front gradually achieved its objectives. It crossed the Mius Front, captured the city of Taganrog, and put the German group defending it to flight. It proceeded to pursue the 6.Armee with the aim of liberating Stalino and reaching the Dnepr River. Tolbukhin's intention was to prevent the German army from building a solid defensive line on the western bank of the great river. In order to resume the pursuit of the 6.Armee, STAVKA reinforced the Southern Front, for this purpose, transferring the 11th Tank Corps from the Orel area to the 5th Shock Army, and transferring the 10th Rifle Corps from the Caucasus to the 51st Army. The 5th Shock Army headed towards the city of Stalino, an industrial city in the Donbas and a logistical and communications center for the entire region, while the 2nd Guards Army supported this advance on their southern flank, south of the city. On September 7 the city of Stalino was liberated. To the north, the 51st Army was collaborating with the 3rd Guards Army of the Southwestern Front in pursuit of the left wing of the 1.Panzerarmee, liberating such important towns as Artemovsk, Konstantinovka and Gorlovka. To the south, the 28th Army and the 44th Army advanced along the coast, with the aim of liberating Mariupol and reaching the gates of the Crimean Peninsula. The Donbas region was a rich, industrial area, and the Germans made considerable use of its resources. The German strategy was based, in part, on slowing the Soviet advance by building defensive lines in their rearguard. In this way, they hoped to have enough time to carry out an orderly retreat and at the same time dismantle and destroy the most important equipment, including the forced evacuation of the male population of military age.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_20: The Operations of Southern Front (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Medium -Location: Stalino Region
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the operations of the Southern Front from the fall of Taganrog to the capture of Stalino and Mariupol.
Scenario Briefing: Tolbukhin's Southern Front consisted of the 51st Army, the 5th Shock Army, the 2nd Guards Army, the 28th Army and the 44th Army. Once the strategic offensive operation in Donbas began in mid-August, the Southern Front gradually achieved its objectives. It crossed the Mius Front, captured the city of Taganrog, and put the German group defending it to flight. It proceeded to pursue the 6.armee with the aim of liberating Stalino and reaching the Dnepr River. Tolbukhin's intention was to prevent the German army from building a solid defensive line on the western bank of the great river. In order to resume the pursuit of the 6.armee, STAVKA reinforced the Southern Front, for this purpose, transferring the 11th Tank Corps from the Orel area to the 5th Shock Army, and transferring the 10th Rifle Corps from the Caucasus to the 51st Army. The 5th Shock Army headed towards the city of Stalino, an industrial city in the Donbas and a logistical and communications center for the entire region, while the 2nd Guards Army supported this advance on their southern flank, south of the city. On September 7 the city of Stalino was liberated. To the north, the 51st Army was collaborating with the 3rd Guards Army of the Southwestern Front in pursuit of the left wing of the 1.Panzerarmee, liberating such important towns as Artemovsk, Konstantinovka and Gorlovka. To the south, the 28th Army and the 44th Army advanced along the coast, with the aim of liberating Mariupol and reaching the gates of the Crimean Peninsula. The Donbas region was a rich, industrial area, and the Germans made considerable use of its resources. The German strategy was based, in part, on slowing the Soviet advance by building defensive lines in their rearguard. In this way, they hoped to have enough time to carry out an orderly retreat and at the same time dismantle and destroy the most important equipment, including the forced evacuation of the male population of military age.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_22: Road to Stalino (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Chistyakovo
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the operations by the 5th Shock Army at the beginning of its offensive towards the city of Stalino. Both the 11th Tank Corps and the 5th Guards Cavalry Corps were held in reserve until September 4th and 5th.
Scenario Briefing: Tsvetaev's 5th Shock Army was the strongest grouping of the Southern Front, deployed in the centre of Tolbukhin's formation. The 5th Shock Army was tasked with advancing towards the town of Stalino with the collaboration of the 51st Army in the north and the 2nd Guards Army in the south. To this end, Tsvetaev's army had the 3rd and 31st Guards Rifle Corps and the 55th Rifle Corps, and had been reinforced in late August by the 9th Rifle Corps. Before advancing directly towards the Stalino industrial area, the 5th Shock Army had to clear the towns of Snezhnoye, Krasnaya Zor'ka and Chistyakovo, since the German retreat had created a significant grouping of forces at these points. This area was defended by two divisions of the XVII.armeekorps, the 306.Infanterie Division and the 294.Infanterie Division, both Divisions had orders to slow down the Soviet advance and withdraw towards Stalino, since the Germans had built there an important defensive position called the "Turtle position" from which they had high hopes to defend the city.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_25: Breaking the Kal'mius Line (GERMAN PLAYER)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Granitnoye
Intended for play as Axis vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the 28th Army's operations against the Kal'mius Line.
Scenario Briefing: The 28th Army continued to pursue the 6.armee after the capture of Taganrog together with the 44th Army a little further south. While the latter army followed the coastal road to the ports there, the 28th Army under Gerasimenko command assembled around Fedorovka to attack the German defenses there and break through the defensive line that the Germans had built on the Kal'mius river. For this mission, Gerasimenko had four Rifle divisions, the 118th, 248th and 347th grouped in the 37th Rifle Corps and the 416th Rifle Division. The main advance was to be made by the 37th Rifle Corps along the main line of communication, the Granitnoye road. To defend this sector of the front, the 6.Armee under Hollidt command, had the XXIX.armeekorps under the command of General Brandenberger and part of the IV.Armeekorps of General Mieth. Among the units of both corps were the 3.Gegirsjagger Division and the 9.Panzer Division and 13.Panzer Division that protected the vital road that ran towards Granitnoye. These units, although weakened after the fighting in August, formed an important and powerful combat group to protect the retreat towards the Kal'mius line.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0901_26: Breaking the Kal'mius Line (HTH)
Date: September 1st 1943 -Size: Small -Location: Granitnoye
Intended for HTH play
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the 28th Army's operations against the Kal'mius Line.
Scenario Briefing: The 28th Army continued to pursue the 6.armee after the capture of Taganrog together with the 44th Army a little further south. While the latter army followed the coastal road to the ports there, the 28th Army under Gerasimenko command assembled around Fedorovka to attack the German defenses there and break through the defensive line that the Germans had built on the Kal'mius river. For this mission, Gerasimenko had four Rifle divisions, the 118th, 248th and 347th grouped in the 37th Rifle Corps and the 416th Rifle Division. The main advance was to be made by the 37th Rifle Corps along the main line of communication, the Granitnoye road. To defend this sector of the front, the 6.Armee under Hollidt command, had the XXIX.armeekorps under the command of General Brandenberger and part of the IV.armeekorps of General Mieth. Among the units of both corps were the 3.Gegirsjagger Division and the 9.Panzer Division and 13.Panzer Division that protected the vital road that ran towards Granitnoye. These units, although weakened after the fighting in August, formed an important and powerful combat group to protect the retreat towards the Kal'mius line.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0909_02: Counterattack at Znamenka (RUSSIAN PLAYER)
Date: September 9th 1943 -Size: Medium -Location: Znamenka
Intended for play as Soviet vs AI
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the only operational German counterattack launched during the Soviet offensive in the Donbas.
Scenario Briefing: On 16 August, the Southwestern Front launched a first attack against the 1.Panzerarmee near Izyum on the Severnyy Donets River, but it did not have much success, two days later, however, the Southern Front launched an offensive on the Mius River and managed to break through at Kuibyshev. The 6.armee deployed in this sector consisted of only three weak army corps, so it had no chance of resisting the attack of the Southern Front, which was supported by more than 800 tanks. The Soviet units that had managed to break through headed south towards the Sea of Azov and reached it at the end of August, as a result, the XXIX.armeekorps was surrounded on the coast, but managed to escape after heavy fighting. Von Manstein then ordered a withdrawal to the Turtle Line near Stalino, this fortified position was occupied by the 6.armee on 4 September, but the attacking Soviet forces quickly broke through the new defence line and took Stalino on 8 September, at the same time, due to the withdrawal of the 6.armee to the Turtle Line, its northern neighbour, the 1.Panzerarmee, was also forced to withdraw, thus opening a gap between the two German armies, which eventually reached a width of 60 kilometres. The way was now clear for the Soviet rapid advance forces to advance towards the Dnieper, the gap between the two armies was to be closed by a pincer attack which began on 9 September, as the 16.PanzerGrenadier Division and the 23.Panzer Division advanced from the north, the 9.Panzer Division attacked from the south, the two wedges met at Znamenka on 12 September, encircling the Soviet units that had managed to break through but although the gap between the two German armies had closed, the temporary stabilisation could not hide the fact that the front could no longer be held.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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#43_0909_03: Counterattack at Znamenka (HTH)
Date: September 9th 1943 -Size: Medium -Location: Znamenka
Intended for HTH play
Designer Notes: This scenario describes the only operational German counterattack launched during the Soviet offensive in the Donbas.
Scenario Briefing: On 16 August, the Southwestern Front launched a first attack against the 1.Panzerarmee near Izyum on the Severnyy Donets River, but it did not have much success, two days later, however, the Southern Front launched an offensive on the Mius River and managed to break through at Kuibyshev. The 6.armee deployed in this sector consisted of only three weak army corps, so it had no chance of resisting the attack of the Southern Front, which was supported by more than 800 tanks. The Soviet units that had managed to break through headed south towards the Sea of Azov and reached it at the end of August, as a result, the XXIX.armeekorps was surrounded on the coast, but managed to escape after heavy fighting. Von Manstein then ordered a withdrawal to the Turtle Line near Stalino, this fortified position was occupied by the 6.armee on 4 September, but the attacking Soviet forces quickly broke through the new defence line and took Stalino on 8 September, at the same time, due to the withdrawal of the 6.armee to the Turtle Line, its northern neighbour, the 1.Panzerarmee, was also forced to withdraw, thus opening a gap between the two German armies, which eventually reached a width of 60 kilometres. The way was now clear for the Soviet rapid advance forces to advance towards the Dnieper, the gap between the two armies was to be closed by a pincer attack which began on 9 September, as the 16.PanzerGrenadier Division and the 23.Panzer Division advanced from the north, the 9.Panzer Division attacked from the south, the two wedges met at Znamenka on 12 September, encircling the Soviet units that had managed to break through but although the gap between the two German armies had closed, the temporary stabilisation could not hide the fact that the front could no longer be held.
Recommended Rules: (Default)
Alternative Assault Resolution, Artillery Set Up, Recon Spotting, Virtual Supply Trucks, Low Visibility Air Effects, Quality Fatigue Modifier, Counterbattery Fire, Night Fatigue, Programmed Weather, Limited Air Recon.
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