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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#: 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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Scenario#: RB14     Date: 12/31/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Since the 19th of November the tide in Stalingrad had begun its fateful turn. For on that day to the north and south of the city, the Soviet Army launched a massive two-pronged counterattack, on a 200-kilometer front, with 10 infantry divisions,…

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Scenario#: S018     Date: 10/25/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Throughout the grueling month of October, determined and costly German assaults had steadily shrunk the Soviet defensive perimeter. By October 24, Panzer Division 14 had reached “Bread Factory #2” just to the south of the Barikady and commenced its…

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Scenario#: S028     Date: 4/26/1945     Location: Baruth, Germany

The Ninth Army was trapped and encircled between the two Soviet Fronts which were competing to take the ultimate prize – Berlin. Having convinced Hitler that he could link up with the Twelfth Army and drive to the defense of Berlin, the Ninth’s…

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Scenario#: S032     Date: 9/19/1941     Location: Vyazivok, Russia

The General Göring Regiment had alternated between being in action and at rest for the better part of September. Their march had taken them across the Dneiper River as part of Army Group Center. Most of the action they had seen in September though…

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Scenario#: S035     Date: 9/14/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The 71st Division's drive into central Stalingrad was spearheaded by Colonel Roske's 194th Infantry Regiment. Around noon his two battalions paused briefly to regroup, after which they renewed their efforts to reach the banks of the Volga River and…

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Scenario#: S036     Date: 6/25/1944     Location: Slobodka, Russia

On June 24, the 3rd Army of the 1st Byelorussian Front made a 10 kilometer penetration towards Minsk against the German 134th Infantry Division as part of Operation Bagration. General Jordan, commander of the German 9th Army, received permission from…

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Scenario#: OA02     Date: 11/30/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The day began with a pre-dawn shower of Russian artillery shells all along the German positions south of Stalingrad. As the barrage lifted, Sgt. Albert Pfluger and his men peered out of their foxholes in time to see three T-34s advancing slowly…

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Scenario#: OA06     Date: 1/5/1944     Location: Plavy, Russia

The Russians reopened their attack on the 2nd Parachute Division. The fallschirmjager were deployed along both sides of the highway leading to Kirograd and were supported by elements of the 286th Self-Propelled Gun Brigade. The Russians initially…

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Scenario#: OA18     Date: 10/29/1944     Location: Saldus, Latvia

The first Battle of Courland began just before first light on 27 October 1944 with a massive Soviet artillery barrage. Under protection of this mighty barrage, Soviet tanks and infantry brigades went to the attack. The main blow was directed against…

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Scenario#: OA22     Date: 10/5/1944     Location: Dzerzhinin, Poland

The only way to stop Poland from being overrun by the Red Army was to counterattack the Soviet bridgeheads before they could reinforce. One such bridgehead was located along the Narev at Dzerzhinin. The 65th Army’s 105th Rifle Corps had already begun…

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Scenario#: OA27     Date: 7/3/1943     Location: Butovo, Russia

The Soviets were well aware of the upcoming German offensive to eliminate the bulge in the lines at Kursk. They did not know exactly where or when the German strike would fall. While assembling the forces to defeat this offensive, the Soviets began…

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Scenario#: OA28     Date: 4/21/1945     Location: Berlin, Germany

The Russian army was driving on the German capital, as the reign of the Third Reich drew to an end. All through April, it seemed that nothing could stop the advancing Russian juggernaut. Mixed elements of the depleted 9th Division desperately tried…

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Scenario#: OB01     Date: 9/6/1939     Location: Sanok, Poland

Under the pretext that Poland had appropriated certain Slovak territories during the Munich Crisis in September 1938, the Slovak government contributed three infantry divisions to the German Army Group South, specifically the 14th Army. They were…

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Scenario#: OB05     Date: 7/5/1941     Location: Kamienka, Russia

After two weeks of Operation Barbarossa, the spearheads of Guderian’s Panzergruppe 2 had raced ahead of the bulk of the 4th Army. The infantry units were straining to catch up and had the unenviable tasks of mopping up the growing number of bypassed…

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Scenario#: OB13     Date: 2/18/1945     Location: Kunzendorf, Germany

The 8th Panzer Division was part of a relief operation the Germans were mounting on the small city of Lauban, which had been encircled by the Soviets. Aufklarungs Abteilung 59 was tasked with screening the right flank if the 8th Panzer Division by…

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Scenario#: O02     Date: 10/19/1941     Location: Ishun, Ukraine

Eleventh Army's drive east had brought it to the Perekop Isthmus, the doorway to the Crimea and Sevastopol. Here, two Russian defensive belts stretched the breadth of the isthmus. The first belt, 5 to 7 miles in depth, was around Perekop and…

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Scenario#: O06     Date: 6/8/1942     Location: Sevastopol, Russia

The German advance in the Crimea meant nothing without control of the city of Sevastopol. Having conquered the rest of the Crimea in late 1941, the Germans turned their attention to Sevastopol but were repulsed twice. In May, the German 11th Army…

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Scenario#: S052     Date: 9/1/1939     Location: Danzig, Poland

The Poles had a few government buildings in the free city of Danzig under international treaty, the most prominent of which was the post office. The Gdansk-1 Post Office was a sturdy building the Poles had further strengthened, and it was garrisoned…

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Scenario#: S053     Date: 7/16/1941     Location: Smolensk, Russia

Infanterie-Division 29, known as the "Falcon" Division, quickly captured southern Smolensk through a coup de main. The following day it turned its attention towards the northern half of the city across the Dnepr River. Stalin ordered Lt. Gen. Lukin's…

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Scenario#: O07     Date: 1/17/1944     Location: Ropsha, Russia

Luftwaffe "field divisions" were the brainchildren of Hermann Goring. Only half the size of a regular Heer division even at full strength, several Luftwaffe field divisions were stretched along the lines of Army Group North during the siege of…

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Scenario#: S054     Date: 8/15/1943     Location: Belsk, Russia

A Kampfgruppe from Panzergrenadier-Division “Grossdeutschland” took part in Operation NATZMER on 15 August to blunt a Soviet attack across the Vorskla River. As the day progressed, many of the unit’s Tiger tanks, in action for the first time, began…

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Scenario#: S055     Date: 5/2/1944     Location: Targu Frumos, Romania

With the arrival of decent spring weather, the Soviets launched an offensive at the start of May into Romania using the combined weight of both the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts. German and Romanian forces had more than held their own during some…

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Scenario#: S057     Date: 2/25/1942     Location: Ugra Station, Russia

The Soviet Moscow counteroffensive aimed to encircle Army Group Center’s 4. Armee and 4. Panzerarmee by cutting through their rear area and supply lines in the Vyazma and Iukhnov regions. To achieve this, General Zhukov employed deep cavalry,…

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Scenario#: O11     Date: 3/24/1939     Location: Závadka, Slovakia

At dawn on 23 March, the Hungarians attacked Slovakia without any declaration of war – catching the Slovakian army unaware – in an effort to grab land prior to the Slovakians signing a protection agreement with Hungary’s ally, Germany. They drove…

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Scenario#: O16     Date: 10/8/1944     Location: Titovka River, Russia

On 7 October, phase one of the Soviet Petsamo-Kirkenes offensive began. Two rifle corps, supported by airpower, armor and artillery, were to overrun the German defenders and drive on the Luostari airfield. Dawn opened to low visibility, falling snow,…

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Scenario#: S063     Date: 4/26/1945     Location: Berlin, Germany

As the vast Soviet forces encircled Berlin, 1st Belorussian Front under Marshal Zhukov was given the “honor” of capturing the Nazi capital. 8th Guards Army and 5th Shock Army jockeyed for positions as they drove through Neukolln towards Tempelhof…

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