Mobile Detachment Korne - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

[Best played as axis]. After the conquest of Basarabia and Northern Bucovina, the Romanian 3rd army forced the Dnestr and took part at the operations in the Ukraine. To exploit the breakthrough it organised the Korne Mobile Detachment, that came to be one of the few things that worked well in the Romanian army in 1941. Colonel Radu Korne led a combined group of his own 6th Rosiori Motorised Cavalry regiment, an armored recoinassance made up of 18 R-1 tankettes, a battalion of motorised 75mm field guns and a few other mobile units. Supporting it, in the absence of the 1st Armored Division sent to Odessa was the armor of the Lindemann detachment. It is one of the few moments in the war in which the tiny R-1 tankettes of Czech origin found themselves at the heart of a major offensive. On the 17th of July they forced the Dnestr. Beyond lay the vast plains of East Ukraine and a profoundly disorganised Russian rear, in which Mobile Detachment Korne could (and did) cause important damage . Reacting to the breakthrough, and manning streches of the old Stalin line (the only obstacle before the vast plains to the East) were elements of the Soviet 18th Army which tried desperately to prevent the further exploatation of the bridgehead accross the Dnestr.