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Scenario#: ABTF03     Date: 9/18/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

As the remainder of the 2nd Parachute Battalion made its way to the British perimeter, German units were responding to the threat. One such unit, Kampfgruppe Euling from SS-Panzer Division 10 had moved into position just west of the ramp. From the…

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Scenario#: ABTF04     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

Field Marshal Model was beginning to comprehend the threat posed by the British at the Arnhem Road Bridge. He likewise understood the implications of the other Allied airborne landings and XXX Corps’ northward drive. Promising armor reinforcements…

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Scenario#: ABTF05     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

Field Marshal Model had continually demanded that the Arnhem Road Bridge be opened to allow reinforcements to move south to Nijmegen. Throughout the morning, the Germans had probed the British defenses searching for weak points. Convinced that…

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Scenario#: ABTF06     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

Colonel Frost could feel the German noose tightening about his weary force. No word had arrived from the remainder of the 1st Airborne Division. All positions east of the Arnhem Road Bridge were now in German hands or abandoned, nothing had been…

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Scenario#: ABTF07     Date: 9/20/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

Colonel Frost realized that disaster was now only a heartbeat away for his 2nd Para Battalion. Frost’s beloved battalion was being buried in the ruins of the buildings around him and his positions were being overrun. Yet Frost knew he was surrounded…

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Scenario#: ABTF08     Date: 9/20/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

The Germans were determined to drive the British from the Arnhem Road Bridge and open the road to Nijmegen. Committing heavy tanks and artillery, as well as flak guns and self-propelled guns, Lt. Colonel Harzer devised a plan to eliminate the British…

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Scenario#: ABTF09     Date: 9/21/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

Colonel Frost had been injured by a mortar round and the SS were organizing yet another assault on the surrounded Paras. Major Gough had taken command and moved his token force toward the river. Under the cover of darkness, he hoped to concentrate…

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Scenario#: VOTG01     Date: 9/14/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Since early morning the German 71st Infantry Division had been attacking towards the downtown district with the capture of the main ferry landing as its goal. Led by Lt. Col. Roske’s 194th Regiment, good progress was made through the residential…

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Scenario#: VOTG02     Date: 9/14/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The defense of downtown Stalingrad rested mainly with two lightly-armed regiments of thes 10th NKVD Divisions. The Germans had broken through and seized several key buildings near the riverbank. From the upper floors of the Brewery, the State Bank,…

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Scenario#: VOTG03     Date: 9/14/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The Russian 62nd Army was desperately trying to keep the German 71st Division from breaking through to the main ferry landing. All General Chuikov had to accomplish this were two lightly armed regiments and militia of Sarayev’s 10th NKVD Division,…

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Scenario#: VOTG04     Date: 9/15/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The German 3rd Battalion, Infanterie Regiment 194 fought through Stalingrad’s suburbs, the Main Railway Station, Red Square, and finally to within sight of the Volga. Their rapid advance across the cratered landscape and the fierce resistance the…

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Scenario#: VOTG05     Date: 9/14/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The German 71st Infantry Division had broken through the weak Russian defenses in downtown Stalingrad and seized several tall buildings along the bank of the Volga. A group of Germans wielding submachine-guns and supported by tanks had captured the…

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Scenario#: VOTG06     Date: 9/15/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

One of Rodimtsev's junior officers, Lieutenant Anton Kuzmich Dragan was personally ordered by Chuikov to hold a key railroad station in downtown Stalingrad against an impending German assault. Dragan proceeded to gather a platoon of less than fifty…

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Scenario#: VOTG07     Date: 9/16/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The past couple of days had seen horrific fighting at the Stalingrad-1 Rail Station. On the morning of 16 September, the 1st Battalion of the 42nd Guards Regiment turned away an attack by twelve self-propelled guns with supporting infantry. Not long…

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Scenario#: VOTG08     Date: 9/16/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The Germans had managed to seize a building on the station square to the rear of the Guards position, where they were reported to be assembling to attack the station building from behind. Lt. Fedesyev ordered Lt. Dragan to organize a counterattack to…

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Scenario#: VOTG09     Date: 9/18/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

A group of German tommy-gunners had seized some buildings at the intersection of Respublikanskaya and Kievskaya streets, and to evict them General Chuikov organized an immediate counterattack. A platoon of tanks that was positioned near the slopes of…

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Scenario#: VOTG10     Date: 9/21/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On 20 September, a civilian informed Lt. Dragan that a massive German buildup was taking place. Fortifications and street barricades were prepared as well as detachments of men armed with anti-tank rifles and molotov cocktails to combat tanks. The…

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Scenario#: VOTG11     Date: 9/22/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

It was at the flanks of the 34th Guards Regiment where the Germans directed particularly heavy attacks. One thrust penetrated the Dolgyi Gully and came out in the rear along the riverbank. Another ttack broke through along Tambovskaya Street,…

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Scenario#: VOTG12     Date: 9/23/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

General Chuikov desperately wanted to gain complete control of the main ferry landings, which had fallen into German hands, and were prefect locations for the Germans to interdict reinforcements crossing the Volga. Help was on the way in the form of…

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Scenario#: VOTG13     Date: 9/24/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Since 14 September, elements of the 272nd NKVD Regiment were defending the area around Komsomol Park. The NKVD Regiment became cut off and surrounded in the park. The trapped units included the regimental staff, along with 17 seamen from Batrakov's…

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Scenario#: VOTG15     Date: 10/24/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The nature of the close quarter fighting dictated the development of new tactics. The Soviet 62nd Army formed small shock units termed "Storm Groups" - assault groups equipped with grenades and tommy-guns, which would first attack the objective, with…

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Scenario#: VOTG16     Date: 11/24/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On 24 November, sappers arrived to deactivate the minefield surrounding "Pavlov's House", which they accomplished without being fired on. Shortly thereafter, Sgt. Pavlov received orders to attack a building that was about one hundred yards across the…

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Scenario#: VOTG17     Date: 1/30/1943     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On 10 January, thousands of Russian guns heralded the start of Operation Koltso, and the armies of the Stalingrad Front began to attack den Kessel (the cauldron). Gradually the perimeter shrank, and finally the German Army was split into several…

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Scenario#: FB01     Date: 1/1/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 26 December 1944, Soviet forces were finally able to complete the outer encirclement of Budapest when lead units of the 18th Tank Corps linked up with forward elements of the 6th Guards Tank Army northwest of the city near Estergom. Beginning on…

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Scenario#: FB02     Date: 1/19/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

After the initial assault by the Soviet 108th Guards Rifle Division failed to capture the Városmajor on January 1, the 320th Rifle Division, supported by a half dozen armored vehicles, was ordered to try to seize the City Park. The main defenders of…

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Scenario#: FB03     Date: 1/20/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Unwilling to accept the 19 January loss of the Városmajor to the Soviets, Major Lázlo Vannay quickly regrouped his men for an assault at 0500 the next morning, having secured the support of two Zrinyi IIs from the 10th Assault Gun Brigade and…

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Scenario#: FB04     Date: 1/24/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Since the beginning of the siege on 25 December, German and Hungarian forces on the Buda side of the Danube had built their defenses around a series of hills located a few kilometers west of the river. By the middle of January, several of the…

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Scenario#: FB05     Date: 1/29/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 26 January, the Soviet 297th Tank Rifle Division had finally pushed the Hungarian Vannay Battalion out of the Városmajor. One building that still remained firmly in Hungarian hands was the Siesta Sanatorium located on Városmajor utca just to the…

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Scenario#: FB06     Date: 1/29/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

With the fall of the Kis-Svábhegy on 24 January, the security of the Axis positions east of Castle Hill was seriously compromised as Soviet observers now had a dominating position from which to direct their artillery. On 29 January, the commander of…

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Scenario#: FB07     Date: 1/31/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

One partial success in penetrating the Axis main line of resistance was achieved by the Soviets on 30 January when an assault group swiftly stormed across the Vermezo from the intersection of Bors utca and Krisztina Korut and seized the primary…

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Scenario#: FB08     Date: 2/1/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Axis defenders suffered a serious blow on 26 December when the Soviets captured one of Budapest’s largest supply depots, resulting in the loss of approximately 300,000 daily rations and 450 tons of ammunition. To complicate matters, the main airport…

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Scenario#: FB09     Date: 2/2/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By the end of January, remaining Axis force had retreated across the Danube from the Pest side of the city where they formed a bridgehead centered on Castle Hill. One of the Wehrmacht’s finest units, Panzer-Division 13, was with the defenders of…

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Scenario#: FB10     Date: 2/3/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

The men of SS-Kavallerie-Division 8 “Florian Geyer” were scrambling for their lives as two and a half months of near continuous fighting had reduced the unit to a shadow of its former self. By 3 February, the troops which had been holding out for the…

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Scenario#: FB11     Date: 2/4/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Although the Soviets did succeed in capturing several buildings at the base of the Várhegy, they were evicted after a fierce counterattack by the men of Lt. Col. Veresváry’s Budapest Watch Battalion. On 4 February, Soviet infantry form the 297th…

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Scenario#: FB12     Date: 2/5/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By February 5, the Soviets had reached the area around Királyhágo tét. Strongly opposed by a mix of German and Hungarian forces, the Soviets would be forced to fight for every building. In addition to their military strengths, the Soviets had…

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Scenario#: FB13     Date: 2/7/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

As the last German gliders had landed on the Vermezo on 5 February, the availability of ammunition and fuel for Axis units had become severely limited. Conversely, Soviet units were extremely well supplied, to the extent that the Russians had begun…

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Scenario#: FB14     Date: 2/7/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

FB14 is the first “official” three-player scenarios. One player plays the Germans, and the second player plays the Soviets. However, the third player plays the Hungarians that are fighting along BOTH sides. The scenario thus has four player turns…

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Scenario#: FB15     Date: 2/7/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 6 February, the loss of Sas-hegy placed the German troops holding the Austrian built Citadelia atop the Gellert-hegy in imminent danger of being overrun from the south by the Soviet 83rd Marine Brigade. Further to the north the Soviet 297th Rifle…

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Scenario#: FB16     Date: 2/8/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By February, elements from the Soviet 297th Rifle Division had successfully fought their way toward the Southern Railway Station. After two days of heavy fighting, infantry aided by Soviet armored units had isolated the area around the station and…

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Scenario#: FB17     Date: 2/9/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 9 February, Soviet forces had succeeded inc capturing their primary objective wets of Castle Hill, the Budapest Railway Terminal. The next day, the Soviets continued their march toward the case of Castle Hill by crossing over the marshalling…

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Scenario#: HF1     Date: 1/9/1945     Location: Hatten, France

In early January 1945, the Battle of the Bulge had run its course, and numerous Allied units were drawn northward to stem the German tide. Taking advantage of this situation, OKW launched a second, less well-known western front offensive codenamed…

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Scenario#: HF2     Date: 1/9/1945     Location: Hatten, France

Operation NORDWIND, the German offensive in France’s Alsace province, enjoyed only limited success in its first week. German fortunes changed, however, with the penetration by Panzer-Korps XXXIX of the American Maginot Line positions during a…

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Scenario#: HF3     Date: 1/9/1945     Location: Hatten, France

A breakthrough in the village of Hatten became the key focus of the German offensive codenamed Operation NORDWIND. By early afternoon of 9 January, units from Panzergrenadier-Division 25 had captured most of Hatten. The Americans responded…

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Scenario#: HF4     Date: 1/10/1945     Location: Hatten, France

Dawn of 10 January held up hope for OKW that their stalled NORDWIND offensive was being reinvigorated. Hatten was largely theirs, and the neighboring village of Rittershoffen appeared lightly defended. Beyond those villages, the terrain was more…

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Scenario#: HF5     Date: 1/10/1945     Location: Hatten, France

For the remainder of 10 January, the Germans focused their efforts on securing defensive positions while aligning themselves for an assault on Rittershoffen via a sunken road originating from the northwest of Hatten. The American counterattack…

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Scenario#: HF6     Date: 1/11/1945     Location: Hatten, France

Lieutenant Colonel Holton had three experienced companies available to him from the 2nd Battalion, 315th Infantry Regiment, for the defense of Hatten. They were supported by a platoon of M18 Hellcats, ably led by Lieutenant Robert Jones. The Germans,…

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Scenario#: HF7     Date: 1/13/1945     Location: Hatten, France

Four days into the battle, the 14th Armored Division, supported by infantry from two battalions of the 315th Infantry Regiment, had managed to temporarily halt the momentum of Panzer-Korps XXXIX. Switching to the offensive, American tankers sought to…

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Scenario#: HF8     Date: 1/14/1945     Location: Hatten, France

After five days of fighting, both Hatten and Rittershoffen had largely been split in two, with the Germans holding slightly more of the most prominent positions. Many buildings had been rubbled, burned to the ground or suffered significant structural…

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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#: 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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