Heart of Wilderness

Leningrad had been under siege for a year, and several smaller attempts to break the siege had already failed when the Volkhov Front offensive started on the morning of 27 August. On the eastern side of the city, Overst Wengler's Grenadier-Regiment 366 had been fortifying its front lines and …

1942-08-28

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Leningrad had been under siege for a year, and several smaller attempts to break the siege had already failed when the Volkhov Front offensive started on the morning of 27 August. On the eastern side of the city, Overst Wengler's Grenadier-Regiment 366 had been fortifying its front lines and held fast as General-Major Starikov's 8th Army bypassed their positions. The Soviet offensive soon lost momentum, however, and Starikov had trouble getting his reserves into the wooded swamps and bringing to bear his 4-to-1 superiority in men and artillery. Wengler's position at the foot of the Siniavino heights would prove crucial.

Siniavino, Russia

The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad on the Eastern Front in World War II. The Finnish army invaded from the north, co-operating with the Germans until Finland had recaptured territory lost in the recent Winter War, but refused to make further approaches to the city. Also co-operating with the Germans since 1942 in August: the Spanish Blue Division that was transferred to the southeastern flank of the siege of Leningrad, just south of the Neva near Pushkin, Kolpino and its main intervention was in Krasny Bor in the Izhora River area.

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German

Scenario Type = Standard