@RisingSun I had similar experience, I was big into the naval miniatures but couldn’t afford both. I bought a lot on ebay a year or so ago and have played a few games. It is not difficult to learn especially if you are familiar with the navy side, it’s pretty similar but includes facing. I think it’s a great game and wish I had collected it some when it was active.
Stalingrad
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I have always been fascinated with the battle of Stalingrad. I think I am going to create a campaign for Stalingrad with the great battles for my minis. I want to get down and dirty like Pavlov’s house etc. I am going to try to create maps and additional rules.
More to come…
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DF, this isn’t exactly on point, but maybe it’ll give you a few ideas. It’s a link to the A-H Scenarios based on the battle of Kursk. They had one based on Stalingrad, but it didn’t look that fun, frankly.
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Nice, I’ll lhave to look at that a when I have a few minutes.
These are the sites I am looking at so far:
Pavlov’s House
Mamayev Kurgan
Red October steel factory
Dzerzhinsky tractor factory
Barrikady gun factory
The Grain Elevator
Central Train Station -
Lets see if this works:
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Well I have a pdf of the map but it’s too big I’ll post it when I figure it out.
This scenario is huge. There are over 200 pieces involved over 20 turns. If you read it give me some feed back.
The Building is about 6x3 hexes it’s 4 hexes from the Volga and about 18 hexes from the west map edge.
The units involved are:
A Soviet Guards platoon from the 13th Guards Div., somewhat diminished and disorganized due to combat in Stalingrad. Civilians and some reinforcements augment it.And approximately 2 Companies of Germans I Infantry and One Tank. Theses are fragmented and piecemeal, introduced gradually.
Eventually I want to integrate a way to move the men to different levels of the building.
I plan to try a test as soon as I can…
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Wow, that’s a slug-fest. Quick question – no Soviet tanks?
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Historically Senior Sergeant Yakov Pavlov (an actual Hero of the Soviet Union), with a platoon that varied from 4 to 25 men and some of the residents of the building, held off attacks on this apartment building for two months. The soviets were equipped with Mortars, machineguns, AT rifles and small arms. The building was bombed daily and raked with machine gun fire constantly. Infantry and armor made assaults several times a day. It was said that the 9th January Plaza in front of the building was covered with burnt tanks and dead Germans. I read somewhere that General Chuikov said, paraphrased, that Pavlov killed more Germans than were killed in the liberation of France.
So, no, no Soviet tanks, I also made sure that the Tanks I did use with the exception of the Tiger at the end, are able to be killed by the defenders. Nothing worse than fighting a unit that you don’t have the attack value to be a ble to kill.
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That’s interesting. Those Soviets were tough! They have another scenario on the A-H website based on a true story where ONE KV-1 tank killed something like 20 German tanks in 30 minutes or something crazy like that. I’ll see if I can find the quote.
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Here it is:
"It was 18 August 1941 and an offensive by the 8th German Panzer Division was expected by the Soviet commanders. The Soviets were desperately trying to blunt the German assault. A lone KV-1 (number 864) commanded by Lt.Kolobanov was given orders to defend the road from Kinigsep near the town of Krasnogvardeysk, in the Leningrad area. The tank commander had selected a position on a wooded hillside overlooking a cross road surrounded by swamp and had dug in and camouflaged itself. Four more KVs were nearby defending other roads. All the tanks have been issued double ammunition loads, two thirds of which are armor piercing rounds.
The next day, German motorcycle recon troops, a halftrack and one light track passed the tank’s position. Five minutes later, a column of 43 tanks appeared and filled the road. The KV-1 fired and the first round caused the lead German tank to explode into flames. Two shots later, the second tank in the column was in flames as well. Kolobanov then opened fire on the rear of the column and managed to destroy the last tank in the column. The Germans were now boxed in by the burning wreckage and the marshy ground surrounding the road.
Unable to spot the Soviet tank, the remaining German armor opened fire, shooting blindly into the woods. Some of the German tanks tried to withdraw but many of them got bogged down in the surrounding swamp. While the German column was in chaos, the Soviet KV-1 destroyed 22 enemy tanks in 30 minutes. Eventually the KV-1 was spotted but the German guns failed to penetrate thick KV’s armor. The impacting rounds made life inside the tank extremely difficult for the Soviet crew. After a German round struck the turret ring, Kolobanov’s tank was forced to leave its entrenchment and maneuver the entire tank in order to aim.
The Soviets noted two German towed guns which had been deployed during the battle on the crossroad. Kolbanov’s first shot disabled one gun, but the other gun managed to fire one shot and damage the KV’s periscope before it too was destroyed. Ammo almost gone, Kolobanov was ordered to withdraw as three more KV-1s were sent to relieve tank 864. The three KVs manage to finish off the remainder of the German column. A total of 42 German tanks and two guns were destroyed. Kolobonav’s tank sustains 135 hits but not one round managed to penetrate the Soviet tank. Lt. Kolobonaov was awarded the Order of Lenin and Usov."
Who says those Soviets don’t know how to fight?
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DF COOL. I’d love to play it out to see if it’s a fair battle.
Check out this Stalangrad map.
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I got that map shortly after it came out. It’s what got me even more interested in Stalingrad. There were so many small intense battles inside of one large battle that it’s perfect for my vision of what mini’s should be. I’ve wanted to play an afordable scale miniatures game ever since I played squad leader whan I was a teenager.
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