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Breakout Dance Scenario#: 8     Date: Jan-43     Location: Velikiye Luki, Russia As the Kalinin Front - led by several Soviet Shock Armies, drove westward they were able to completely encircle the German 277th Infantry Regiment at Velikiye-Luki. Outside relief for this surrounded force was not to be had, however, so orders … Combat Commander — CC: Europe
Commando School Scenario#: 10     Date: 4-Feb-43     Location: Novorossiysk, Russia To aid in the success of the Soviet amphibious operation launched against Kleist's Army Group A near Novorossiysk, a Black Sea Fleet commando detachment landed a few miles further down along the Black Sea coast. In order to protect the … Combat Commander — CC: Europe
Little Stalingrad Scenario#: 17     Date: 24-Dec-43     Location: Ortona, Italy On December 21l, house to house fighting began in earnest in the Adriatic seaport of Ortona. It was during the next seven days that the Canadian 1st Infantry Division literally rewrote the book on close-quarters city fighting techniques. More than … Combat Commander — CC: Mediterranean
Saint Agatha Scenario#: 21     Date: 8-Aug-43     Location: Northern Sicily, Sicily While elements of the 15th and 30th Infantry Regiments of the US 9th Division seized a key hill along the San Fratello Line, Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard led a reinforced Battalion in an amphibious landing at Sant' Agata, a few … Combat Commander — CC: Mediterranean
Red Skies at Night Scenario#: 30     Date: 25-Sep-43     Location: Veliki Bukrin Bridgehead, Russia On the night of September 24-25, the Russian 5th Airborne Brigade air assaulted into the Bukrin Bend to establish a bridgehead on the west bank of the Dnieper River. The jump was less than successful as the troopers were widely … Combat Commander — Battle Pack #1: Paratroopers
Stalingrad of the North Scenario#: 44     Date: 11-Jan-43     Location: Velikiye Luki, Russia The Soviet Kalinin Front offensive at the beginning of winter 1942 successfully cut off and encircled the key transportation hub of Velikiye Luki. The German 277th lnfantry Regt. under orders from Hitler to hold at all costs resolutely defended the … Combat Commander — Battle Pack #2: Stalingrad
Predator Becomes Prey Scenario#: 64     Date: 27-Jun-43     Location: Leskovik, Albania Outside Lekovic, Albania, with ELAS partisans in a prepared ambush against elements of the German 1st Gebirgsjäger Division, whose commander suspecting a ruse changed his attack plans. Combat Commander — CC: Resistance
Tito's Trick Scenario#: 68     Date: 28-Feb-43     Location: Neretva River, Hercegovina Jablanica, Hercegovina, at the railroad bridge crossing of the Neretva River, with Partisans attempting to seize the bridgehead and destroy the Chetnik forces blocking the Partisan escape from German forces. Combat Commander — CC: Resistance
Appointment at Daliki Scenario#: 70     Date: 26-Jun-43     Location: Daliki, Belarus In a remote village south of Lepel, Byelorussia, with Soviet partisans of an important Operative Center suddenly trapped by a well-executed German rear-area clearing operation. Combat Commander — CC: Resistance
Valley of the Heroes Scenario#: 71     Date: 14-May-43     Location: Sutjeska River, Bosnia Outside the village of Tjentište, Eastern Bosnia, at the Sutjeska River, where trapped Partisan units fought their way through a weak point in the German-Croatian lines, escaping once again although at great cost. Combat Commander — CC: Resistance
Thunderstorm Scenario#: 72     Date: 23-Dec-43     Location: Island of Korcula, Croatia On the island of Korčula on the Croatian Adriatic coast, with Partisans of the Dalmatian Brigade attempting to buy enough time for their comrades to evacuate from surrounding German units of the 118th Jäger Division. Combat Commander — CC: Resistance
Taking the Knoll Scenario#: 113     Date: 9-Oct-43     Location: Jivevenang, New Guinea In order to secure Finschhafen as a forward operating base the Australian 9th Division needed to drive Col. Sadahike Miyake’s 80th Regiment from its positions in an around the village of Sattleburg. One of these positions was the village Jivavenang … Combat Commander — C3I Magazine #25
Voronoezh Front Scenario#: 117     Date: 26-Jan-43     Location: Nikolaevka, Russia The stunning successes of the Russian counterattacks, Operations Uranus, Saturn, and Little Saturn, resulted in the shattering of the Axis front lines along the Don River. On the extreme edge of this battlefield stood the units of the Italian Alpine… Combat Commander — C3I Magazine #27
Operation Cherry Blossom Scenario#: D     Date: 1-Nov-43     Location: Empress August Bay, Bougainville On this date the US 3rd Marine Division landed at Cape Torokina. Naval forces assisting the Marines included 4 cruisers and 8 destroyers. Empress Augusta Bay had been chosen because it was within range of allied land—based fighter bases and … Combat Commander — CC: Pacific
West Tank Barrier Scenario#: E     Date: 2-Nov-43     Location: Butaritari, Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands became one of the first stepping stones in the large scale movement by the US to take back Japanese-held territory. A Japanese seaplane base guarded by a citadel of defenses was the key target on Butaritari, a … Combat Commander — CC: Pacific
Bulolo River Bridge Scenario#: M10     Date: 30-Jan-43     Location: Wau, New Guinea A company of the ANZAC 2/5 battalion ordered to intercept elements of the Japanese 51st Division advancing on Wau finds itself bypassed and cut off. The unit attempts to sneak back to friendly lines through the advancing Japanese forces but … Combat Commander — Battle Pack #4: New Guinea
Shattered Bobdubi Scenario#: M11     Date: 30-Jun-43     Location: Bobdubi Ridge, New Guinea Following the Allied victory at Buna, Australian infantry pushed northwest toward the next enemy coastal base in a war of small-unit actions across the jungle tracks and kunai-grass heights of the interior. As a pincer with a US landing near … Combat Commander — Battle Pack #4: New Guinea
Scarlet Beach Scenario#: M12     Date: 17-Oct-43     Location: Song River, New Guinea As the Allies progressed up the New Guinea coast. General Adachi’s XVIII Army desperately counterattacked. To support a 20th Division thrust into the Allied perimeter around Finschhafen, Adachi dispatched barges loaded with remnants of 1st Lt.… Combat Commander — Battle Pack #4: New Guinea
Wau Me Worry Scenario#: M9     Date: 31-Jan-43     Location: Wau, New Guinea After an arduous trek cutting through the jungle, and harassed along the way by Australian KANGA Force, the exhausted Japanese troops of the 102nd Regiment, Okabu Detachment struggled onto the high ground overlooking their objective—the airfield at… Combat Commander — Battle Pack #4: New Guinea
Hill 133 Scenario#: TBP01     Date: 1943     Location: Somewhere deep in Russia “Soldier, the enemy occupies Hill 133. The Motherland and Political Officer Blurtarsky require you to wrest control of it from him." Combat Commander — Tournament Battle Pack
On the Road to Victory Scenario#: TBP05     Date: July 1943     Location: Modica, Sicily Canadian war correspondent Ross Munro recorded his experiences of the first few days of the attack on the Italian 122 lnfantry Regiment north of Pachino in a newspaper article printed on 12 July: "Stubborn Resistance has been put up by … Combat Commander — Tournament Battle Pack
One Steppe Beyond Scenario#: TBP06     Date: March 1943     Location: Central Russia Dawn was still barely visible on the horizon. l walked back towards the artillery line which was to support the reconnaissance forces should they encounter organized Resistance. Combat Commander — Tournament Battle Pack
La Villa Strangiato Scenario#: TBP11     Date: July 1943     Location: Route 120 Vicinity, Sicily The US 7th Army battled its way through western Sicily after the collapse of the Axis beach defense forces in early July. The Italian Forces, however, were still game to defend their homeland. Combat Commander — Tournament Battle Pack
Last Line Before Oboyan Scenario#: K01     Date: 10 July, 1943     Location: Oboyan, Russia As the battle of Kursk intensified in the southern half of the salient, the Totenkopf division reached the last Russian barrier before Oboyan. Lightly defended fortifications lined the River Psel, constructed over the previous weeks and months.… Combat! — Kursk
Battle At Arm’s Length Scenario#: K02     Date: 11 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia After a long night of struggling to secure little more than a tentative hold on the north bank of the Psel, the Totenkopfs Panzer Regiment received orders to expand the bridgehead and explore the Russian defensive positions in the region. Unbeknownst… Combat! — Kursk
Just Over The Highway Scenario#: K03     Date: 11 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia Having established themselves across the Psel River the previous evening, the Totenkopf was deter mined to expand their bridgehead and outflank the Russian defenses near Prokhorovka. This would protect the flank, and ease the progress of rest ofthe… Combat! — Kursk
Graveyard of Steel Scenario#: K04     Date: 11 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia As the battle north of the Psel roared, both sides threw in their reserves in order to carry the day. The better part of a Russian tank and infantry corps was committed to flattening the bridgehead, while the 2nd SS Corps committed the bulk of the… Combat! — Kursk
To the Last Round Scenario#: K05     Date: 14 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia After nearly two days of extremely intense fighting, the seesaw battle for the Totenkopfs bridgehead over the Psel was ending. Like two punch-drunk prizefighters, the Germans and Russians had exhausted each other. Gathering their remaining strength… Combat! — Kursk
Clash of Titans Scenario#: K06     Date: 12 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia While the SS mopped up local resistance on the eleventh of July including the seizure of the southern slopes of the tactically vital Hill 226.6, the Russian juggernaut in the form of the Fifth Guards Tank Army bored down on them. As the SS prepared… Combat! — Kursk
Heirs Bridgehead Scenario#: KCG1     Date: 10 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia It came as no surprise, especially to the Russians, that the German 2nd SS Panzer Corps would spear head the summer offensive against the Kursk salient. The Germans were involved in some of the heaviest fighting in the most crucial sector of the… Combat! — Kursk
Schwerepunkt Blunted Scenario#: KCG2     Date: 13 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia With the Germans now more thoroughly in control of a foothold across the Psel River, they now sought to strengthen their hold while driving north toward Oboyan and Kursk itself. Having secured Hill 226.6, the Germans pushed northeast, while tunneling… Combat! — Kursk
Komsomolets Collision Scenario#: K07     Date: 12 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia As SS General Hausser’s 11 SS Panzer Corps began its final assault toward Prokhorovka, it met Lieutenant General P.A. Rotmistrov’s 5th Guards Tank Army less than 5 kilometers from the German objective. When the opposing forces crashing into one… Combat! — Combat! Dairy #2
High Water Mark Scenario#: K08     Date: 13 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia The second night Totcnkopf spent in the PscI bridgehead was far from secure. It was spent taking the northern slopes of Hill 226.6 from it's tenacious defenders while the division’s panzer regiment drove 3km northeast to the edge of the highway… Combat! — Combat! Dairy #2
Hill 226.6 Scenario#: K09     Date: 12 July, 1943     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia Disappointed by their lack of success at nearby Prokhorovka, Corps commanders now decided to exploit their successes in the Psel bridgehead. Their efforts were to be concentrated on securing ail of Hill 226.6 that still remained in enemy hands. With… Combat! — Combat! Dairy #2
Back To Russia Scenario#: 9     Date: 12 March 1943     Location: Ivany-Berdyny, near Bogodukhov, Ukraine During early March, 1943, Army Group Kempf had the mission to advance in the general direction of Belgorod as part of the new offensive to retake Kharkov. The Grossdeutschland Infantry Division formed the left wing of the Army Group with … Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Motorized Infantry Division
Welcome To Kharkov Scenario#: 11     Date: 21 January, 1943     Location: Volokonovka, Ukraine Reports from the Soviet Voronezh Front were that they had broken through the Hungarian army's positions and were advancing into the Novy Oskol area northwest of Kharkov. The Oskol river was being breached and preparations were in progress for further… Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
Just In Time Scenario#: 12     Date: 10 February 1943     Location: Veseloye, Ukraine The Soviet Voronezh Front had three armies poised to attack towards Kharkov in early February as part of Operation Star. Their forces had taken the city of Belgorod as this progressed and they were continuing to push southward to achieve … Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
Cut Off Scenario#: 13     Date: 11 February 1943     Location: Kharkov, Ukraine Operation "Star” was underway for the Soviet armies. The 40th Army was to advance to secure Belgorod and then envelope Kharkov from the northwest and west in an effort to try to link up with the 3rd Tank Army. Its … Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
Overrun Scenario#: 14     Date: 18 February 1943     Location: Ljubotin, Ukraine Kharkov had just fallen to rhe Soviets and a realignment of the German defensive line was formed to its south. The Grossdeutschland Division's Fusilier Regiment was given the assignment of defending a section of road leading to the west out … Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
Charge Scenario#: 15     Date: 9 March 1943     Location: Alexandrovka, Ukraine As part of the Third Battle of Kharkov the Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadier Division drove north from southwest of Kharkov. Manstein’s attack had taken the Soviets by surprise as they neared the limits of their army's strength by early March. During… Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
Tigers Scenario#: 16     Date: 9 March 1943     Location: Bogodukhov, Ukraine In early March the momentum in the area around the city of Kharkov was turning towards the Germans. Manstein's counterattack was pushing the Soviets back and gaining ground on all sides. Gaps were developing between the Soviet 40th and 69th … Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
Can We Hold? Scenario#: 17     Date: 17 March 1943     Location: Borisovka, Ukraine Manstein's counterattack had gone well, with the Germans pushing north and attacking on a wide front. They had retaken the city of Kharkov with Grossdeutschland Division to the northwest intercepting retreating Soviet units. GD had pushed the Soviet… Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
Who's Who? Scenario#: 18     Date: 4 November 1943     Location: Krasny Orlik, near Kharkov, Ukraine In late 1943 the Grossdeutschland Division was heavily engaged in multiple defensive battles east of Krivoi-Rog. It was here the division earned the nickname "The Fire Brigade." One such encounter occurred when the German 9th Panzer Division was… Fighting Formations — Grossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
The Plantation Scenario#: 39     Date: 1943-07-24     Location: Munda Point, New Georgia The US Army 34th Infantry Division advanced on the Lambeti Plantation in New Georgia with Marine tanks as it attempted to capture the Japanese Airbase at Munda Point. The fighting was intense and did not see the gains expected as … Last Hundred Yards — The Solomon Islands
Room at the Inn Scenario#: HotM09     Date: 1943-01-12     Location: S Of Livny, Russia The Soviet winter offensive of 1943 threw the Germans back along the breadth of the Eastern Front, frequently creating ruptures in the Wehrmacht's line, both large and small. In this fictitious scenario, a small German reconnaissance group, probing… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Heroes of the Motherland
Prochorovka Scenario#: HotM10     Date: 1943-07-12     Location: Prochorovka, Russia Right after 5 a.m., on July 12th, hundreds of Soviet tanks and assault guns rolled out of Prochorovka and slammed into the German SS Leibstandarte Division, which had stalled just west of the town. Streams of T-34 and T-70 tanks, loaded with… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Heroes of the Motherland
Front Porsche Scenario#: DJ01     Date: 1943-07-09     Location: Ponyri, Russia On the north side of the Kursk salient, General Model's Ninth Army pushed south. A key objective was the town of Ponyri, and there the fighting raged. The city was contested so fiercely that veterans named it the Stalingrad of the Kursk salient. Not… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Dark July 43
Assault on Hill 252.2 Scenario#: DJ02     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia On July 10, 1943, after a long and violent fight, Hill 241.1 had finally been taken. Farther to the east, some units from the Aufklarung Abteilung had reached the outskirts of the Oktiabrskii State Farm and reported that the Soviets had set up a… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Dark July 43
Clear the Ditches Scenario#: DJ03     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia At: 10:15 A.M. elements of the 1St SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH were ordered to advance and take the anti-tank ditches to the east of Hill 252.2. The attack was launched in an attempt to clear out the anti-tank ditches and the surrounding area to… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Dark July 43
Secure the Oktiabrskii State Farm Scenario#: DJ04     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia Fierce fighting had been raging all morning, and by 1:00 p.m. the Soviet forces had taken up well-defended positions at the Oktiabrskii State Farm. The LAH needed to capture the farm to secure the left flank of its advance towards Prokhorovka. The… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Dark July 43