KG_Jag
04-08-2006, 05:53 PM
Jason C is busy, as reflected in his second major CMBB effort announced in recent days. This one covers Operation Uranus.
"I'm pleased to announce I've uploaded six scenarios comprising a scenario pack for testing at the Proving Grounds.
This scenario pack contains six scenarios set during Operation Uranus, the Russian 1942 winter offensive that trapped the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. The series shows the actions of the Russian 5th Tank Army, spearhead of the northern wing of the offensive.
They are best played in sequence and are meant for human vs. human play. Here is a description of the battles covered.
1 Operation Uranus
Allied Assault
Russian Guards vs. Rumanian Infantry
This depicts the initial assault phase of 5th Tank Army's assault on 3rd Rumanian Army, defending north of Stalingrad. The lead wave of the attack consisted of Guards Rifle divisions. While the Rumanians were too thin to offer meaningful resistance in many sectors, this depicts a Rumanian strongpoint with better than average chances of stopping the Russian assault. The scenario is set at dawn in fog - the historical conditions.
2 Rumanian Round Up
Retreat
Russian Cavalry vs. Rumanian Infantry
After the initial breakthrough, the bulk of the Rumanian 3rd Army had to withdraw across open steppe in a driving snowstorm, closely pursued by Russian cavalry from the 8th Cavalry Corps. They suffered heavily. Whole divisions surrendered, only fragments reached German reserve lines along the Chir river to the west.
3 5th Tank Army vs. 22nd Panzer
Meeting Engagement
Russian Tank vs. German Panzer
Axis reserve armor behind the breakthrough consisted of the 48th Panzer corps, which had two component divisions - the Rumanian 1st Panzer and the German 22nd Panzer. 22nd Panzer suffered from poor readiness but manage to get its tanks north and into the combat zone by the second day. It was supposed to rendezvous with the 1st Rumanian Panzer, but Russian forces had already slipped between them. Instead they ran into a Russian Tank Corps, near high ground in a snowy countryside dotted with villages and train sidings.
4 5th Tank Army vs. 1st Rumanian Panzer
Axis Attack
Russian Tank vs. Rumanian Panzer
1st Rumanian Panzer missed its rendezvous with the German armor because it had already been pocketed, along with 2 Rumanian infantry divisions, farther to the east. They knew they had to break out. Night infiltration got the armor past its immediate captors. 1st Rumanian Panzer then drove west, trying to fight a way clear for the infantry behind them. Only a cadre reached the Chir, and the Russians sealed the route before any of the infantry could get out.
5 Alarm Along the Chir
Russian Probe
Russian Rifle vs. Luftwaffe Field (and others)
After dealing with the local reserves, the bulk of 5th Tank Army's armor formations wheeled southeast and raced for the Stalingrad perimeter. Rifle formations were left to push west into the void created by the destruction of the Rumanian 3rd Army. In places supported by 8th Cavalry Corps, they pushed on to the banks of the Chir river, where scratch forces checked them. These were "alarm" units, hastily assembled formations patched together from whatever was available in Axis rear areas, to hold some kind of line.
6 5th Tank Army vs. 24th Panzer
Meeting Engagement
Russian Tank vs. German Panzer
6th Army reacted to the breakthrough to the north by sending its mobile formations west, to protect its headquarters and communications. 14th Panzer, 24th Panzer, and 29th Motorized, all veterans of the toughest fighting in Stalingrad, threw out thin screens of mobile forces across a wide arc of steppe north, northwest, and west of the city.
Elements of 5th Tank Army's 4th Tank Corps ran into 24th Panzer's portion of this screen, northwest of the town of Kalach. For the first time since the start of the offensive, 5th Tank's T-34s faced opponents that were their equals.
This was the little known collision that formed the western wall of the Stalingrad pocket. By holding, 24th Panzer ensured the formation of the Stalingrad pocket, against the threat of immediate collapse from an assault on their rear. But the next day, 4th Tank joined hands a little farther west with elements of 4th Mechanized Corps advancing from the south - 6th Army was surrounded."
The Battlefront forum link is here:
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=003442 (http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=003442)
"I'm pleased to announce I've uploaded six scenarios comprising a scenario pack for testing at the Proving Grounds.
This scenario pack contains six scenarios set during Operation Uranus, the Russian 1942 winter offensive that trapped the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. The series shows the actions of the Russian 5th Tank Army, spearhead of the northern wing of the offensive.
They are best played in sequence and are meant for human vs. human play. Here is a description of the battles covered.
1 Operation Uranus
Allied Assault
Russian Guards vs. Rumanian Infantry
This depicts the initial assault phase of 5th Tank Army's assault on 3rd Rumanian Army, defending north of Stalingrad. The lead wave of the attack consisted of Guards Rifle divisions. While the Rumanians were too thin to offer meaningful resistance in many sectors, this depicts a Rumanian strongpoint with better than average chances of stopping the Russian assault. The scenario is set at dawn in fog - the historical conditions.
2 Rumanian Round Up
Retreat
Russian Cavalry vs. Rumanian Infantry
After the initial breakthrough, the bulk of the Rumanian 3rd Army had to withdraw across open steppe in a driving snowstorm, closely pursued by Russian cavalry from the 8th Cavalry Corps. They suffered heavily. Whole divisions surrendered, only fragments reached German reserve lines along the Chir river to the west.
3 5th Tank Army vs. 22nd Panzer
Meeting Engagement
Russian Tank vs. German Panzer
Axis reserve armor behind the breakthrough consisted of the 48th Panzer corps, which had two component divisions - the Rumanian 1st Panzer and the German 22nd Panzer. 22nd Panzer suffered from poor readiness but manage to get its tanks north and into the combat zone by the second day. It was supposed to rendezvous with the 1st Rumanian Panzer, but Russian forces had already slipped between them. Instead they ran into a Russian Tank Corps, near high ground in a snowy countryside dotted with villages and train sidings.
4 5th Tank Army vs. 1st Rumanian Panzer
Axis Attack
Russian Tank vs. Rumanian Panzer
1st Rumanian Panzer missed its rendezvous with the German armor because it had already been pocketed, along with 2 Rumanian infantry divisions, farther to the east. They knew they had to break out. Night infiltration got the armor past its immediate captors. 1st Rumanian Panzer then drove west, trying to fight a way clear for the infantry behind them. Only a cadre reached the Chir, and the Russians sealed the route before any of the infantry could get out.
5 Alarm Along the Chir
Russian Probe
Russian Rifle vs. Luftwaffe Field (and others)
After dealing with the local reserves, the bulk of 5th Tank Army's armor formations wheeled southeast and raced for the Stalingrad perimeter. Rifle formations were left to push west into the void created by the destruction of the Rumanian 3rd Army. In places supported by 8th Cavalry Corps, they pushed on to the banks of the Chir river, where scratch forces checked them. These were "alarm" units, hastily assembled formations patched together from whatever was available in Axis rear areas, to hold some kind of line.
6 5th Tank Army vs. 24th Panzer
Meeting Engagement
Russian Tank vs. German Panzer
6th Army reacted to the breakthrough to the north by sending its mobile formations west, to protect its headquarters and communications. 14th Panzer, 24th Panzer, and 29th Motorized, all veterans of the toughest fighting in Stalingrad, threw out thin screens of mobile forces across a wide arc of steppe north, northwest, and west of the city.
Elements of 5th Tank Army's 4th Tank Corps ran into 24th Panzer's portion of this screen, northwest of the town of Kalach. For the first time since the start of the offensive, 5th Tank's T-34s faced opponents that were their equals.
This was the little known collision that formed the western wall of the Stalingrad pocket. By holding, 24th Panzer ensured the formation of the Stalingrad pocket, against the threat of immediate collapse from an assault on their rear. But the next day, 4th Tank joined hands a little farther west with elements of 4th Mechanized Corps advancing from the south - 6th Army was surrounded."
The Battlefront forum link is here:
http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=003442 (http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=003442)