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Aachen's Pall Scenario#: P Date: 25-Oct-44 Location: Aachen, Germany The American hand had closed about Aachen. The city fell slowly. Street by street, then house by house the Gls squeezed out the Germans. Finally the Wehrmacht headquarters in the Hotel Quillenhof was in sight. The massive hotel structure proved … Squad Leader — The General #21.2
Death's Head At Lusho Scenario#: SSTK 1B Date: 24-Sep-41 Location: Valdai Hills, Russia As Army Group North continued to press at the gates of Leningrad, to protect its right flank the German 16th Army and SS Totenkopf Division had been compelled to entrench west of the Pola River. Following fierce engagements in the … Squad Leader — The General #20.6
Death's Head At Lusho Scenario#: SSTK 1A Date: 24-Sep-41 Location: Valdai Hills, Russia As Army Group North continued to press at the gates of Leningrad, to protect its right flank the German 16th Army and SS Totenkopf Division had been compelled to entrench west of the Pola River. Following fierce engagements in the … Squad Leader — The General #20.6
Strayer's Strays Scenario#: O Date: 6-Jun-44 Location: Saint-Germain-de-Varreville, France By dawn, Lt. Colonel R.L. Strayer had pieced together a unit composed of men of the 502nd, 506th and 508th Parachute Regiments. Front lines and flanks were meaningless. The officers and men didn't know one another. Radio contact with HQ … Squad Leader — The General #20.4
Faugh A'Ballagh! Scenario#: N Date: 16-May-44 Location: Sinagoga, Italy The approach to Monte Cassino was agonizingly slow. The commanding heights gave the Germans superb observation and fire positions. In the valleys, small rearguard groups ensured that each hamlet had its bloodprice. For the Allies, the very narrowness… Squad Leader — The General #19.6
Soldiers of Destruction Scenario#: TS4 Date: 10-Oct-44 Location: Radzymin, Poland The men of the SS Totenkopf Division had stalled the advance of the Fifth Guards Tank Army in late September. Then, silence. No fighting had occurred for the past three weeks. It seemed like a dream. Time to sleep; time … Squad Leader — The General #19,5
Land Leviathans Scenario#: TS3 Date: 3-Jul-41 Location: Lipki, Russia Under pressure from Stalin to hold Smolensk, Yeremenko was desperate to halt the German offensive. On I July, he committed his sole armored reserve: the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division under Major General LG. Kreyzer. It was a crack unit, … Squad Leader — The General #19,5
Pavlov's House Scenario#: TS2 Date: 20-Oct-42 Location: Stalingrad, Russia At the end of September, units of Rodimtsev's 13th Guards were ordered to seize buildings on Lenin Square and form strongpoints. A damaged apartment building was attacked and occupied by Sgt. Jacob Pavlov and his men, who formed a defensive … Squad Leader — The General #19,5
First Crisis at Army Group North Scenario#: TS1 Date: 25-Jun-41 Location: Daugav River, Russia When Army Group North moved toward the Daugava River, the Russian command responded by detailing the Ill Armored Corps to meet and destroy Manstein's units. On June 24th, the Soviet armored force made contact with the 6th Panzer Division, the … Squad Leader — The General #19,5
The Dead of Winter Scenario#: M Date: 29-Dec-41 Location: Staritsa, Russia The German Army was frozen in place. Bitter cold and deep snow made the thinly clad Wehrmacht dig in and fight first for warmth, then the Russians. The Siberians were well equipped for war in the snow but the Russian … Squad Leader — The General #18.5
The Long Road Scenario#: L Date: 16-Sep-42 Location: Andriba, Madagascar The King's African Rifles with detachments of A Squadron, 1st Armoured Car had worked their way from the port of Majunga halfway to the capital city Tananarive, The Vichy defenders were handicapped both by the limited means at their disposal … Squad Leader — The General #18.4
Fast Heinz Scenario#: K Date: 7-Aug-41 Location: Roslavl, Russia Another day of pouring rain. The mud clung like black tar to the men's boots. The 292nd Infantry Division slowed in its push to close the bag on the Russian Fourth Army. Each overrun town required its own garrison. Each … Squad Leader — The General #18.3
Semper Paratus Scenario#: J Date: 27-Sep-44 Location: Oorderen, Holland Lieutenant C.P .J. Des Groseillers urged his straining men to push again. D Company had found a German 75mm antitank gun in the ruins of Oorderen. The breech had been hidden and the weapon had been left in the town … Squad Leader — The General #18.2
Hunters from the Sky Scenario#: I Date: 24-Mar-45 Location: Rhine River, Germany "Operation Varsity," the airborne phase of the Allies' Northern Rhine crossing, was to be the last airborne assault of the war. Artillery units and fighter-bombers pounded the German gun positions in the vicinity of the drop zones lifting just prior… Squad Leader — The General #17.2
The Attempt to Relieve Peiper Scenario#: H Date: 21-Dec-44 Location: the Ardennes, Belgium The key to the German Ardennes Offensive Jay with a quick breakthrough and deep penetration. In the north the success of a breakthrough rested heavily with Colonel Peiper's Kampfgruppe from the 1st SS Division. But the quick victories which had … Squad Leader — The General #17.2
Devil's Hill Scenario#: G Date: 19-Sep-44 Location: Kleve-Nijmegen, Holland Although the airborne portion of the "Market-Garden" Operation centered around the seizing of vital bridges, heavy fighting occurred over control of the highway section leading to the bridges as well. While parts of the 82nd Airborne fought to gain… Squad Leader — The General #17.2
The Pouppeville Exit Scenario#: F Date: 6-Jun-44 Location: Pouppeville, France With the invasion at Normandy underway, the first Allied troops to see fighting were the men of the airborne divisions. Most of the early encounters for the 101st Airborne Division occurred at the many German strong points and scattered villages … Squad Leader — The General #17.2
The Niscemi-Biscari Highway Scenario#: E Date: 10-Jul-43 Location: Biscari, Sicily During the initial invasion of Sicily many American parachute units were given the task of blocking German unit movement toward the landing beaches. One such unit, the 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Regiment, landed two miles northwest of Biscari.… Squad Leader — The General #17.2
Delaying Action Scenario#: D Date: 30-Oct-44 Location: Western Lithuania, Lithuania After failing to halt the onslaught of Bagramyan's 1st Baltic Front, scattered units of the Gross Deutschland Division were ordered to fall back to the northwest and regroup?. One evening during the course of this retreat some three hundred of … Squad Leader — The General #15.6
The Burkin Bridgehead Scenario#: C Date: 24-Sep-43 Location: Kiev, Ukraine In mid September 1943 Manstein's Army Group South initiated a full scale retreat along the entire length of its 600 mile front. The plan was to fall back to the west bank of the Dnieper and redeploy for defense before … Squad Leader — The General #15.6
Hill 253.5 Scenario#: B Date: 9-Jul-43 Location: Kursk, Russia Operation Citadel had begun, but instead of the desired lightning breakthrough, the fighting had ta ken on the characteristics of World War I trench warfare. In four days of grueling combat the XL1 Panzer Corps had managed to penetrate the … Squad Leader — The General #15.6
Burzevo Scenario#: A Date: 2-Dec-41 Location: Burzevo, Russia By the end of November, Operation Typhoon had broken down; resolute Soviet Resistance, exhaustion, and sub-zero temperatures had almost completely halted the Germans. Along the Minsk-Moscow highway, the fastest and most direct route to the Russian… Squad Leader — The General #15.6
Operation Marston Scenario#: 1000 Date: 14/15 July 1943 Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily Operation "Marston", as the attack on the Primosole Bridge over the River Simeto was known, was given to the 1st Parachute Brigade of the 1st British Airborne Division to accomplish. It was planned to the last detail: equipment, weaponry, route, … Squad Leader — The General #20.2
Two eyes for an eye Scenario#: D7 Date: 29-Apr-45 Location: Berlin, Germany “Two eyes for an eye” was the Russian’s motto as the drive for Berlin had begun. Four Russian armies, 4,000 tanks, 22,000 guns and mortars, and over 4,000 aircraft began the drive on the German capital on the night of … Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 9
Skrimish in Austria Scenario#: D6 Date: 6-Mar-45 Location: Austria After passing through Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, the Red Army smashed into Austria. A mixed group of Yugoslavs, Bulgarians and Russians met elements of the German force occupying Austria in a night melee. Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 7
The Fall of Sevastopol Scenario#: D5 Date: 7-June-42 Location: Sevastopol, Crimea By June 7, 1942, General Erich von Manstein had rid the Crimea of Russian troops, except those who still held the fortress of Sevastopol. On that date, Sevastopol was guarded by seven Russian rifle divisions, three marine brigades, 600 guns … Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 5
The Battles for Warsaw (late) Scenario#: D4 Date: 2-Oct-44 Location: Warsaw, Poland Steadily, as August passed into September, the Poles were pushed back from the west bank of the vistula until the Germans had them trapped in the center of the city. Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 2
The Battles for Warsaw (early) Scenario#: D3 Date: 1-Aug-44 Location: Warsaw, Poland The uprising of freedom fighters of the Polish Home Army in Warsaw, which began on this date, appeared at first to be headed for ultimate, if hard-won, success. Home Army units in Warsaw amounted to 34,000 men and 4,000 women, … Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 2
Will the German garrison leave? Scenario#: D8 Date: 17-Jan-45 Location: Budapest, Hungary On December 12, 1944, the Russian high command ordered that Budapest was to be encircled and crushed. The 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts were in excellent position to cut off the city. German counterattacks delayed the encirclement of the city … Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. V, No. 11
Large Scale Streetfighting Scenario#: D2 Date: April 1942 Location: Russia Training Scenario: This scenario again pits the Russians and Germans in a street fight, but on a somewhat larger scale. In this scenario, victory is determined by the number of victory points gained by each player and whether or not … Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. IV, No. 11
Fighting in the Streets Scenario#: D1 Date: June 1942 Location: Russia Training Scenario: The following scenario will force the development of streetfighting skills for both sides. Tactical doctrine for successful streetfighting depends on the player’s successful use of combined arms (if available). Squad Leader — The Dragon Vol. IV, No. 10
The Road to Wiltz Scenario#: 12 Date: 17-Dec-44 Location: Wiltz, Luxembourg The German assault had surprised the Americans both in its size and intensity. Desperately, the Americans formed scratch defenses to buy time so the key road junction of Bastogne could be held. The Germans had to be delayed or stopped … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
The St. Goar Assault Scenario#: 11 Date: 24-Mar-45 Location: St Goar, Germany Germany's army was beaten. The Rhine had been crossed at Remagen and elsewhere. As more and more of the Allies closed in on the Rhine, there was a growing tendency to simply take it "o n the run" rather than … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
Hitdorf on the Rhine Scenario#: 10 Date: 6-Apr-45 Location: Hitdorf, Germany As the Third Reich collapsed, many American leaders became bold to the point of recklessness. Often, a daring stroke by a small group of soldiers yielded a vast gaggle of demoralized German prisoners. But sometimes the Americans pushed their luck … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
The Cannes Strongpoint Scenario#: 9 Date: 23-Aug-44 Location: Cannes, France Generally the American advance through Southern France was so swift that it was rare when the Germans stayed and fought. However, the swiftness of the advance often caused German elements to be cut off and faced with the decision either … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
The Bitche Salient Scenario#: 8 Date: 14-Jan-45 Location: Bitche, Germany Elements of the U.S. l 75th Infantry Regiment have been ordered to continue closing the ring around German forces trapped near Bitche. However, due to poor radio security, the Germans are quite aware of this latest development and have planned … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
Buchholz Station Scenario#: 7 Date: 16-Dec-44 Location: Buchholz, Belgium The original German opening for the Battle of the Bulge was somewhat subdued. German infantry, with little armor was to seize key road junctions early so the armored formations could quickly pass through and exploit a breakthrough. One such key … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
Escape From Velikiye Luki Scenario#: 6 Date: 12-Jan-43 Location: Velikiye Luki, Russia During the fatal winter of 1943, the German disaster was not confined to Stalingrad alone. All along the line, Russians were cutting off pockets of Germans. At Velikiye Luki, the entire 277th Infantry Regiment was in dire straits. Surrounded and … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
Hill 621 Scenario#: 5 Date: 1-Jul-44 Location: Minsk, Russia In late June, 1944, the Soviets began what eventually would be known as the "Destruction of Army Group Center." The key to this offensive was the city of Minsk. Should it be captured, numerous German units would be hopelessly cut … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
The Hedgehog of Piepsk Scenario#: 4 Date: 14-Nov-41 Location: Piepsk, Russia Despite a heavy beating, the Soviet army was still holding the field, and in some areas, giving better than they got. However, the German ranks were thinning out as their manpower resources were called upon time and again to fight … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
The Streets of Stalingrad Scenario#: 3 Date: 6-Oct-42 Location: Stalingrad, Russia This scenario joins Scenario I and 2 together as one combined game. In addition to the normal two player game, this scenario makes for a good team game for four players. Squad Leader — Squad Leader
The Tractor Works Scenario#: 2 Date: 6-Oct-42 Location: Stalingrad, Russia While pushing into the industrial area of the city, advancing elements of the 389th Infantry have isolated a contingent of the 308th Rifle Division in the key Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works. The Germans have decided to crush this island of Resistance … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
The Guards Counterattack Scenario#: 1 Date: 6-Oct-42 Location: Stalingrad, Russia After an extremely successful summer the Germans came upon the Volga fortress of Stalingrad. Here the Russians had dug in and were determined to make a stand. Sensing total victory, the Germans threw more and more troops into the fighting. … Squad Leader — Squad Leader
Night Drop Scenario#: R223 Date: 6-Jun-44 Location: Cherbourg Peninsula, France Scattered in farms and villages along thirty miles of coast, the German 709th Infantry Division had been awaiting the invasion for a year. It had been formed eighteen months before around a core of German veterans from the Russian front … Squad Leader — Rogue Scenarios
Infatuate II Scenario#: R222 Date: 1-Nov-44 Location: Walcheren Island, Holland The last German stronghold on the Scheidt Estuary was the island of Walcheren. Linked by a narrow causeway to South Beveland, its batteries were still a threat to Allied transports. Agile minesweepers were already plying their trade in the estuary, … Squad Leader — Rogue Scenarios
Vitality I Scenario#: R221 Date: 24-Oct-44 Location: South Beveland, Holland The south shore of the Scheidt was nearly cleared. Unfortunately, guns on the north bank, though much less commanding, could still threaten the Allied shipping lanes to the port of Antwerp. The eastern portion of the north shore was a … Squad Leader — Rogue Scenarios
Clearing the Breskens Pocket Scenario#: R220 Date: 6-Oct-44 Location: Scheldt Estuary, Holland Players should read scenarios R218 & R219 for units involved and historical background. Squad Leader — Rogue Scenarios
Scheldt Fortress South Scenario#: R219 Date: 25-Oct-44 Location: Scheldt Estuary, Holland Backed against the Scheidt Estuary, the weakened German 64th Infantry Division faced the entire Canadian First Army. It was the guns of the 64th which barred shipping from Antwerp. Every day that the 64th held out meant another day of … Squad Leader — Rogue Scenarios
Operation Switchback Scenario#: R218 Date: 6-Oct-44 Location: Scheldt Estuary, Holland Antwerp had fallen unharmed into Allied hands. All that prevented Allied use of one of Europe's largest ports were the German flak and artillery that lined the narrow waterway linking the North Sea to Antwerp; the narrow Scheidt Estuary. Axis … Squad Leader — Rogue Scenarios
The Whirlwind Scenario#: R217 Date: 18-Apr-45 Location: Aschaffenburg, Germany As the German defenses crumbled in front of the U.S. 3rd Army, the fighting became fluid . On the night of April 17th elements of a recce troop of the American 26th Division occupied a village on the outskirts of … Squad Leader — Rogue Scenarios