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Scenario#: RB14     Date: 12/31/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Since the 19th of November the tide in Stalingrad had begun its fateful turn. For on that day to the north and south of the city, the Soviet Army launched a massive two-pronged counterattack, on a 200-kilometer front, with 10 infantry divisions,…

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Scenario#: RB02     Date: 10/22/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The receding day witnessed renewed all-out assaults against the Barrikady and Krasny Oktyabr factories as the Germans flailed away in pouring rain at the fanatical Soviet defenders in their well-fortified positions. Little headway was made, but much…

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Scenario#: RO1     Date: 10/23/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

By 23 October the German 6th Army had secured Stalingrad’s tractor factory and gained a solid foothold in the Barrikady gun factory. Their conquest of the southernmost of the three factory complexes, the Krasny Oktyabr steel factory had not yet…

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Scenario#: RB03     Date: 10/25/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On 24 October, Panzer Division 14 reached its objective of “Bread Factory #2” just south of the Barrikady. The next day the German assaults against the buildings continued but were soon checked by fierce defensive fire of the Soviet 138th Rifle…

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Scenario#: RO3     Date: 10/25/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

German control of the southern half of the Krasny Oktyabr factory complex was tenuous. Dug-in troops of Guriev’s 39th Guards Rifle Division were able to pour “unbelievable machine gun fire” from the Martin Shop on all the nearby roads and trenches,…

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Scenario#: RB08     Date: 10/27/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

For the Russians, this was rapidly becoming yet another critical day in the defense of their ruined city. Elements of the German 79th Infantry Division had pushed toward the Krasny Oktyabr steel mill, bringing the HQ of Guryev’s 39th Guards Division…

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Scenario#: RB09     Date: 10/31/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The last ferry-landing across the Volga was under German machinegun fire and the Russians were barely holding their positions in the rubble around Krasny Oktyabr and the Barrikady. Rather than waiting passively for the final blow, the Soviet “Army…

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Scenario#: RO5     Date: 11/11/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Operation HUBERTUS would be the Germans’ final bid to capture Stalingrad’s devastated factory district, one last attempt to secure the prize on the Volga that Hitler so dearly craved. The better part of three bloodied but still effective German…

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Scenario#: RB11     Date: 10/28/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Although desperate to buy time to allow the 45th Division to be ferried across the Volga at night, the Russians had no more reserves. During the 27th, the shattered 118th Rifle Regiment had a bit of luck. To their surprise, they recovered three tanks…

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Scenario#: RB01     Date: 10/17/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

With the fall of the massive Dzherhezinsky Tractor Works, the Germans turned their attention to the Barrikady and Krasny Oktyabr factories. On 16 October German infantry, tanks and Stukas tried to blast a path into the Barrikady through the remnants…

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Scenario#: RB13     Date: 11/11/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The objective for Major Braun and his men was to capture the fuel tank complex and penetrate to the shoreline of the Volga itself. Though Major Braun and his men had briefly reached the fuel tanks on 2nd November, they had been ousted by a…

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Scenario#: RO2     Date: 10/23/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

By 0930 the Germans’ first objective, the north-south railroad embankment west of the factory, had been reached. The attack plan then called for a brief interlude to allow fresh troops of the second wave to come up and for continued bombardment of…

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Scenario#: RO7     Date: 12/26/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

One month had passed since the German 6th Army had been surrounded by the Soviet counteroffensive of 19 November, but periodic spurts of fighting still erupted in the cold ruins of the Red October factory. A Russian war correspondent wrote that the…

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Scenario#: RB12     Date: 11/17/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On the 11th of November the Germans launched an offensive in the Barrikady district with elements of two infantry divisions, backed up by five especially formed pioneer battalions, armed with satchel charges and flamethrowers. In addition two assault…

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Scenario#: RB10     Date: 9/11/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The Sixth Army was being bled white amidst the ruins. The rifle strength of whole companies was often reduced to little more than a squad in an attempt to take a single house. The battle lines were now drawn through the hallways of individual…

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Scenario#: RB05     Date: 11/11/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Hoping that one last great push might be enough to finally shatter all organized resistance in the city, German assault troops prepared for a final onslaught. In the meantime, fresh Pioniere battalions specially trained in urban warfare were flown…

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Scenario#: RO4     Date: 11/11/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Dominating the Krasny Oktyabr factory complex, the mammoth Hall 4 was the lynchpin of the Soviet defense. The enterprising Soviets had turned the factory’s 14 recessed “Martin Ovens” into a series of impregnable fortresses, interconnected with…

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Scenario#: RO6     Date: 12/15/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

By the end of the second week in December the former defenders of Stalingrad were finally ready to take the initiative and begin their bid to recapture the ruined city. In the southern end of the Red October factory complex, two of those structures…

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Scenario#: RB07     Date: 12/5/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The German 6th Army had been surrounded for almost two weeks. Still, it in turn had trapped the Soviet 138th Rifle Division in a pie-shaped piece of land behind the Barrikady. The 138th launched nightly forays against the eastern edge of der Kessel,…

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Scenario#: RB04     Date: 10/26/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

A patrol of Jaeger Division 100 managed to reach the west bank of the Volga following a saturation bombardment of Russian positions. The Germans soon found themselves cut off as Red Army soldiers re-emerged from their rubble hideouts after allowing…

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Scenario#: RB06     Date: 11/15/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Despite failing to achieve its main objective, Operation Hubertus had severely mauled the remaining Soviet formations. One of these, the redoubtable 138th Rifle Division, now found itself isolated along the Volga on a 400m x 700m strip of land. Of…

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