Battle of Radzymin

[Boisforas]

Boisforas here, with a question: Does anyone know of any EF scenario depicting the battle of Radzymin, August of 1944?

[fritzfarlig]

If there not any scenario, it would be obvious to make one exciting battle to read about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o...min_(1944)

[Big Ivan]

Hey Eric,

Did you see Robert Ritchie's scenario "A Festering Wound" It's a big one but I think it covers area around Radzymin.



Ivan the Big

[Crossroads]

Boisforas here, with a question: Does anyone know of any EF scenario depicting the battle of Radzymin, August of 1944?

I opened all 616 EF scenario files I've got in my EF folder with my Programmer's Text Editor, and did a global search.

These two scnearios had word "Radzymin" in them:

Radzymin - Echo of doom (Radzymin44.scn)

LINK TO SCENARIO DB

MarW

30 July, 1944
[Designed for H2H game but also playable as any side] 30th July
1944, at east of  Warsaw taked place large scale panzer battle
amongst XXXIX German Panzer Corps ( commander Gen. Decker ) and
3rd Russian Tank Corps ( commander Gen. Rokossovsky ). 3rd Corps
attacked by Radzymin Town to get control bridgeheads on Bug and
Narvia rivers.Russian tanks met unexpectedly German force included:
"Hermann Goring" FJ-Pz Div, 19. Panzer Div., SS "Totenkopf" Div.,
SS "Viking" Div. *NOTE: For best play and game balance all forces
are reduced.But game is moderate pro Axis. Historic: divisions
name, attack directions and towns, rivers, woods positions and
map distance. Historic battle's results: Russian major defeat
( lost 157 tanks ). Designer e-mail [email protected]



A Festering Wound (Wolomin.scn)

LINK TO SCENARIO DB

Robert Ritchie

May 1st, 1944
Wolomin, 20Km NE of Warsaw: (Designed as a Team Game - Version
3)  As part of Operation "Bagration", the great Soviet summer
offensive of 1944, on 18th July Marshal Rokossovskii set in motion
the left flank armies of his 1st Belorussian Front.  With his
right flank armies already hanging menacingly over Brest-Litovsk,
a vital German rail and communications center, the left flank
armies were tasked with slicing into the left flank of 4th Panzer
army in direction of Siedlce and Lublin and encircling the German
2nd Army around the city of Brest.  At 0530 hours, after a preliminary
30 minute barrage, the breakthrough 47th, 69th and 8th Guards
Armies quickly penetrated the thin German defences east of Kovel.
At 1300 hours on July 20th, 20th Tank Brigade of 11th Tank Corps
(8th Guards Army) already reported reaching the western bank
of river Bug before Germans could fall back behind the river.
 Ordered that night to move out towards Bug, Lt. Gen. Bogdanov's
 2nd Tank Army reached the western end by noon on July 21st.
 On morning the next day, his Army was ordered to attack towards
Lublin and then north-west toward Pulawy and Deblin taking bridgeheads
on the Vistula to prepare for a further advance on Warsaw.  After
a viscious fight to take Lublin, during which Bogdanov himself
was wounded relinquishing command to his Chief of Staff Maj.
Gen. Radzievsky, Rokossovskii ordered 2nd Tank Army to move towards
Praga, the part of Warsaw on eastern bank of Vistula.  Giving
his army a couple of days to rest and refit, Radzievsky's troops
pushed towards Praga from Deblin area on morning of July 27th.
 Because of low fuel and amunition, the attack gained little
ground.  Undaunted, his army reorganized and struck back on July
29th, cutting through the German lines and drawing up to Radzymin
and Okuniew (located north-east of Warsaw) two days later.  However,
by now things were brewing on the German side and Soviet command
suspected by the evening of the same day that 2nd Tank had stumbled
into a heavy concentration of German armor in the Praga sector.
 Their suspicions proved correct. Responding to the the crisis,
Hitler and OKW began to move division after division from Western
Europe and Balkans to Eastern Front to reinforce the remnants
of three German armies.  Thus, with newly reconstituded XXXIX
Panzer Corps, Model, new commander of Army Group Center, was
orchestrating a series of successive armored counterattacks designed
to halt and destroy the Soviet tank army advancing north-east
of Warsaw towards Vistula.  For Germans, after more than a month
of headlong retreat, it was a time to finally strike back and
heal the festering wound that was Army Group Center.  Thus, the
stage was set for a vicious week-long clash between four Panzer
Divisions of XXXIX Panzer Corps (4th, 19th, "Herman Göring" and
"Wiking") and three Tank Corps of 2nd Tank Army (3rd, 16th and
8th Guards) and elements of Mobile Group Kryukov (11th Tank Corps
with 2nd and 7th Guards Cavalry Corps) of 47th Army.  Any questions
or comments email me at [email protected]  or
 Steve (Tiger 88)  [email protected]  or  Mike (The General)
 [email protected]

[Crossroads]

Download links added to my post!

[Crossroads]

Hey Eric,

Did you see Robert Ritchie's scenario "A Festering Wound" It's a big one but I think it covers area around Radzymin.



Ivan the Big

Ah, beat me to it 

Quite a biggie, yes. I think this was the first team PBEM game I played. Good fun!

[Boisforas]

Thanks Battle Kat & Ivan for refreshing my memory about the scenarios that cover this battle.