Eastern Front Command Ops: Encirclement of 1st SS Panzer At Perekop
Well I didn't actually encircle the division, but I did encircle two PG regiments and a battalion of Panzers in a trial run of my "Across the Tartar Ditch" scenario. I also pulled off a marginal victory for the Soviets, but to be honest I could easily have been encircled as well up until the last hour or so.
The 1st SS seemed to choose encirclement, as they formed a steel hedgehog while they awaited the rest of the division I guess. In my reading about Stalingrad, the German armor formations in the 6th Army as they advanced on Stalingrad outpaced the more cautious and slower infantry divisions. Fearing encirclement, and facing a lack of supply, they formed a "hedgehog" north of Spartanovka almost on the banks of the Volga before the rest of the army arrived. (Some ominous foreshadowing for 6th army).
1st SS pulled off something similar tonight. Screens below.
This scenario gets closer everyday. More to follow.
The 1st SS seemed to choose encirclement, as they formed a steel hedgehog while they awaited the rest of the division I guess. In my reading about Stalingrad, the German armor formations in the 6th Army as they advanced on Stalingrad outpaced the more cautious and slower infantry divisions. Fearing encirclement, and facing a lack of supply, they formed a "hedgehog" north of Spartanovka almost on the banks of the Volga before the rest of the army arrived. (Some ominous foreshadowing for 6th army).
1st SS pulled off something similar tonight. Screens below.
Final screen. I held Armyansk but lost the Perekop objective in the last hour to a German hq unit I couldn't drive away or annihilate. |
This scenario gets closer everyday. More to follow.
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