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Scenario#: J162     Date: 7/10/1940     Location: Moyale, Kenya

By the end of June 1940, the garrison of Fort Harrington had received reliable reports that Italian reinforcements were entering the twin town of Moyale at the Abyssinian border. These included three Eritrean colonial battalions, a brigade of pack…

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Scenario#: J163     Date: 3/29/1941     Location: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

The days of Africa Orientale Italiana were finally coming to a close in Abyssinia, as South African and Nigerian forces continued a now largely-unopposed advance to Addis Ababa. Italian colonial forces were deserting and surrendering en masse, in…

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Scenario#: J164     Date: 3/29/1941     Location: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

The days of Africa Orientale Italiana were finally coming to a close in Abyssinia, as South African and Nigerian forces continued a now largely-unopposed advance to Addis Ababa. Italian colonial forces were deserting and surrendering en masse, in…

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Scenario#: J165     Date: 5/26/1941     Location: Galatas, Crete

The German invasion of Crete began on 20 May 1941, and was the first large-scale airborne operation in history. Fallshirmjager jumped into battle or landed by gliders near their targets. However, the Allied defenders of Crete made the German…

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Scenario#: J173     Date: 11/24/1944     Location: Baerendorf, France

Soon after crossing the Sarre River, 4th Armored Division vanguards ran into the flank of Panzer Lehr Division. Approaching the village of Baerendorf, Combat Command B sent its 53rd Armor Infantry Battalion forward to conduct a hazardous stream…

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Scenario#: VOTG26     Date: 9/20/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Early in the morning of 20 September, a submachine gun-armed Sturmgruppe from Infanterie-Division 71 broke through along Moskovskaya Street and seized the main landing mole. At that moment ill fortune would have it that a flight of Stukas mistook the…

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Scenario#: J175     Date: 2/16/1945     Location: Louisendorf, Germany

To kick of the attack known as Operation VERITABLE, the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, supported by the 3rd Armoured Battalion of the Scots Guards, was ordered to take the hilly ground around Louisendorf, south of Moyland. This would protect the right flank…

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Scenario#: J177     Date: 3/24/1945     Location: Hamminkeln Station, Germany

Though neither wide nor deep, the Issel stream had steep banks which formed a natural tank barrier, a fact which caused major concern among the Allied command. The seizure of every intact bridge over the Issel was considered vital to the success of…

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Scenario#: J176     Date: 3/4/1945     Location: Rheinberg, Germany

The most appealing objectives in the Wesel bridgehead were two still-intact bridges, which offered the promise of a dry crossing of the Rhine by Allied forces. Because the Americans had encountered so little resistance in the days after Operation…

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Scenario#: HS33     Date: 2/19/1945     Location: Goch, Germany

In front of A and C Companies of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, B Company, under the command of Major Duncan Kennedy, was attacking the Schwanenhof farmstead, located a few hundred yards past the Goch-Kalkar road. The Kangaoos dropped the men…

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Scenario#: VOTG27     Date: 9/23/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Infanterie-Division 71 and 94 were pressing towards the Volga north and south of the Tsaritsa River, creating a salient of Soviet units just south of the city center. tasked with reducing the salient was Aufklarungs-Abteilung 171, commanded by…

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Scenario#: J169     Date: 8/30/1943     Location: Chistyakovo, Ukraine

The wastefulness of Operation Citadel was beginning to hit home for Heeresgruppe Sud. Stripped of many Panzer Divisions, these were replaced with worn–out infantry divisions such as the 258th, which formed a shallow crust around the transport hubs…

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Scenario#: J167     Date: 11/28/1942     Location: Djedeida, Tunisia

A German-held airfield just east of Djedeida – a mere dozen miles from Tunis – had suffered the ignominious distinction of being overrun by a reconnoitering company of American light tanks. The Americans, however, lacking orders and infantry to hold…

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Scenario#: J174     Date: 12/7/1944     Location: Athens, Greece

By 1944, the two major resistance movements in occupied Greece, EDES and EAM-ELAS, each saw the other to be their great enemy. They both saw the Germans were going to be defeated and were a temporary threat. For the communists, the British…

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Scenario#: J168     Date: 8/8/1943     Location: Kuban, Crimea

Amid the brutal Crimea battles of 1943-44, Ekaterina Mikhailova managed to enlist at the tender age of 15. Affectionately called Katyusha by the troops, she was admired even by the enemy. She safely took water for her injured friends from a contested…

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Scenario#: J166     Date: 12/19/1941     Location: Sumpitan Village, Malaya

On 19 December the Scottish 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders received its next task, the defense of Kuala Kangsar. Success here would both deny the main north-south road junction to the Japanese and allow the 11th Indian Division to…

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Scenario#: J178     Date: 3/26/1945     Location: Gahlen, Germany

For the American 30th Infantry Division, Operation PLUNDER commenced on 24 March with a relatively quiet crossing of the Rhine. The division’s first main objective, the village of Spellen, was quickly taken by two of its regiments which attacked the…

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Scenario#: J172     Date: 9/16/1944     Location: Brest, France

Following the Allied D-Day landings on 6 June, 2nd Fallschirmjäger-Division was sent to the Brittany region of France, and took up defensive positions at Brest. Following Operation Cobra, the allied breakout from Normandy, Major-General Troy H.…

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Scenario#: J170     Date: 6/20/1944     Location: Vyborg, Finland

After the siege of Leningrad was lifted in January 1944, STAVKA began planning a summer offensive to knock Finland out of the war. The Soviet attack on the Karelian Isthmus started on 9 June, timed to coincide with the Normandy landings. Fifteen…

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Scenario#: J179     Date: 4/10/1945     Location: Heilbronn, Germany

The final weeks of the war in Europe saw deep penetrations by the forces of General Alexander Patch’s Seventh Army, which rolled over most resistance in its path. Crossing the Neckar River proved to be one of the first true obstacles encountered by…

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Scenario#: J161     Date: 5/24/1940     Location: Picquigny, France

On May 22, German tanks reached Boulogne and split the Allied armies at the Somme River. The British 1st Armoured Division, in France for less than four days, was ordered to retake three river crossings with the support of lorry-borne Territorials…

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Scenario#: J181     Date: 8/11/1945     Location: Mo Dao Shi, China

The Soviet Union declared war on the Japanese Empire on 10 August. Depleted by the dispatch of its units to the Pacific theater, the Japanese Kwantung Army was seemingly helpless to resist the Soviet steamroller. Nevertheless, the Japanese commenced…

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Scenario#: J180     Date: 5/8/1945     Location: Forst Segeberg, Germany

Men of the 8th Parachute Division were called upon to neutralize a group of die hard SS and German Partisan's (Werewolf units) in the first days of May 1945. They dug themselves in within a forest called Forst Segeberg in Northern Germany. They were…

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Scenario#: FB19     Date: 1/25/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Having been allies off and on for centuries against a variety of enemies, the defending German and Hungarian forces had developed what some soldiers referred to as a “war brotherhood” or “Waffenbruderschaft”. This bond would be sorely tested…

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Scenario#: J171     Date: 8/14/1944     Location: Central, Greece

THREE PLAYER SCENARIO - informal alliances are not forbidden but there will be only 1 winner!

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