1027_01: Tula Little, Tula Late - PzC 14 Moscow '41

80 kms SSW of Tula, Oct 27th 1941: The "Rasputitsa", the season of rain and mud had arrived on the scene. The advancing Panzer columns were now severely handicapped by the weather and the "flying artillery" of the Luftwaffe was hampered by the bad visibility. Supply convoys were reduced to worse than a crawl, with tracked vehicles towing trucks from the glutinous mud. The XXIV Pz Korps had been ordered by General Heinz Guderian to press on to Tula, with its mobile elements using the only road capable of any such movement. As they moved up the road it disintegrated under the heavy traffic, but they pressed on, harried all the way by remnants of the 49th and 50th Armies. [Size, medium] Designer's Note: The 49th and 50th Armies at this time consisted of fragments of their former units with much of their artillery lost. Historically, the Russians did manage to halt the Germans 2 miles south of Tula, in this scenario you may capture the city.