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Title
Hunting Chernov
Description
The German XXIV Panzer Corps has punched through the Soviet defenses south of Warsaw. Unfortunately, the Panzers are low on fuel and are now threatened by the hastily reformed remnants of the 26th Soviet Army. The Germans can barely stop …
Source
Publisher
Date
1941-10-02
Scenario#
Solo03
Scenario Description
The German XXIV Panzer Corps has punched through the Soviet defenses south of Warsaw. Unfortunately, the Panzers are low on fuel and are now threatened by the hastily reformed remnants of the 26th Soviet Army. The Germans can barely stop the superior Soviet Heavy Tanks, having succeeded so far only with use of their advanced communication networks and tactics. The experienced Soviet commander Col. Petr Chernov is in charge of the 141st Tank Brigade and is severely threatening the German 4th Panzer Division, his 219th and 220th Tank Regiments having crippled several Panzers and threatening the German northern flank. In an attempt to prevent a complete stall of their advance towards Moscow, a hasty counterattack has been launched by the remaining German Panzers. The dangerous Chernov must be found and eliminated at all costs.
Location
Mtsensk, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union. The German strategic offensive, named Operation Typhoon, called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing the Moscow–Leningrad railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly towards Moscow from the west. Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of the Moscow Oblast by constructing three defensive belts, deploying newly raised reserve armies, and bringing troops from the Siberian and Far Eastern Military Districts. As the German offensives were halted, a Soviet strategic counter-offensive and smaller-scale offensive operations forced the German armies back to the positions around the cities of Oryol, Vyazma and Vitebsk, and nearly surrounded three German armies. It was a major setback for the Germans, and the end of their belief in a swift German victory over the USSR. As a result of the failed offensive, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was dismissed as supreme commander of the German Army, with Hitler replacing him in the position.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Battle of Moscow
Combatants
German
Russian

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