PC Action 1996 May/PCA0596.ISO/gtarchiv/03960103/stlngrd.txt

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                   In the spring of 1942,
                                      Hitler orderd a new offensive for the eastern
 front.Army Groupe North was to continue its efforts to take Leningrad,while Army Groupe
 Centre was to hold fast.Army Groupe South was to attack the industrial and oil producing
 regions of southern Russia.The Sixth Army,led by Colonel-General Friedrich Paulus,and
 the Fourth Panzer Army,led by Colonel-General Hermann Hoth,were to drive directly for
 Stalingrad.If it wasnt for Hitler ordering directive 49,abandoning the step-by-step
 conquest of the south starting with Stalingrad,Stalingrad might have been taken without
 a fight.By detaching Hoth's panzer army,which he did agianst his generals warnings,and
 sending them to attack the Caucasus,Hitler allowed the Russians to organize a defence.
                                  Just a few weeks later,Hitler ordered the Fourth Panzer
 Army to turn back to Stalingrad.But he had lost his chance,Hoth's panzer army,on August
 9th, was halted by lack of supplies 100 miles from the city.Paulus Sixth Army had
 managed to cross the River Don and,on August 23rd,was on the right bank of the Volga
 and moving into the suburbs.Despite the Russian Sixty-second and Sixty-fourth Armies,
 Paulus established air and supply bases and,on september 2nd,made contact with Hoth.


                                 The German Army High Command advised Hitler that the
 left flank,protected by unreliable Romanian forces,was in danger from a
 potental attack that would expose Paulus's Sixth Army.Hitler THEN transferred units
 from the weak Romanian left flank to assist the Sixth Army's attack on the city,
 which pretty much turned things from bad to worse.While all this was going on Marshal
 Georgi Zhukov,who had been secretly building vast reserves,was poised to launch a
 counter-offencive with the arrival of the best Russian ally,the winter.
                                    On November 19th,a massive Russian attack surprised
 and overran the Romanian Third Army,exposing the left flank of the Sixth Army,as the
 German Generals had forseen in the summer.Twenty-four hours later,100 miles to the
 south,The Russians routed a mixed German and Romanian force guarding Paulus's other
 flank;the two Soviet assault groups joined up within four days.General Paulus and his
 Sixth Army,comprising of 200,000 fighting men and 70,000 non-combatants,had been
 encircled and cut off.
                                    The Army High Command wanted the Sixth Army to make
 a break westward while the Russian ring was not firmly established.But,once agian,Hitler
 ordered,based on Herman Goering's unrealistic presumtion of being able to fly in enough
 supplies,Paulus to hold position and fortify until the arrival of a relief column.
                                    Three days later Field Marshal Erich von Manstein
 was placed at the head of Army Groupe Don which was to relieve Stalingrad.He was orderd
 not to create a situation which would allow Paulus to withdraw;he was to go in and
 stabilize the German front line.Manstein set out on his unenviable mission on December
 12th and arrived 30 miles outside Stalingrad on the 21st.Knowing the futility of his
 mission he ordered Paulus to breakout,but without direct orders from Hitler,he decided
 to stay where he was.
                                     The Russians took full advantage of the oppertunity
 to destroy the formatable Sixth Army.On through January the Russians continued to press
 attacks until the last German airfield was taken on the 25th.On the 31st,using the last
 opperational radio,Hitler had been pleased to promote Colonel-General Paulus to Field
 Marshal,both knowing a Field Marshal had never been captured alive.
                                      The arrival of the Russians outside the new Field
 Marshals headquarters prompted Paulus,himself exhausted,to surrender his command to
 General Mikhail Shumilov of the Soviet Sixty Fourth Army.As nearly a million men marched
 off to harsh captivity [from which only 5,000 returned after the war],Hitler raved about
 the disaster and threatened to court-martial Paulus.Ultimatley though,he took
 responsibility for the sacrafice of the Sixth Army.
                                       The loss of an entire Army and all its equipement,
 on top of casulties in excess of a million men already sustained on the Eastern Front,
 had left the Germans overstreached before the full might of the Allies could even be
 assembled agianst them.      Hitler would pay for such a folly.


                                        This scenario is based when the Sixth Army is
 continuing its attacks on City Centre and moving foward to the industrial area of
 Stalingrad.It takes place across the River Volga on the NW side [NW is straight up on
 the map].The map is designed off an undetailed picture that I found,so its farly
 realistic.Some of the Russian units,the AA guns and artillary,are actually positioned
 where they were during the actual battle.During the actual fight the Russians were
 transporting reinforcments across the river,but I dont think I can recreate that.
                                        I set a 20 turn time limit which is plenty of
 time but you MIGHT have to pull back to regroupe for another assualt after you get
 through the first wave.Prepair for some brutal street fighting.
                     A little hint: take advantage of the attack hex button.


 Oct.16,1942
                        Your mission,

                                You must advance through City Centre into the industrial
 part of the city.You must push the Russians back,past the main factorys bordering the
 industrial section,and capture all the main road intersections so that reinforcments
 may move freely up to the assualt that will be made on the industrial area.
                                 Luftflotte 4 will be assisting in the attack.You will
 also be sent three platoons of combat engineers specialy trained in street fighting.For
 support you will be given a platoon of panzers as well as the usual seige equipement.
                                 Recon indicates that you will be up agianst mostly
 infantry supported by a few tanks.We have complete air supereority so there should be
 no Russian airpower in the area.
                                  Your Kampfgruppe is the advancing wave of the Sixth
 Army.It will be up to you to bring us to victory before the dreadful winter arrives.
 Intellagence indicates the Russians are prepairing for a winter offencive,so time is
 critical at this point.
                                 You must not fail.

                      Head of the Sixth Army,

                            Colonel-General Friedrich Paulus


scenario #3,...Mikey 103134,1006
      Thoughts welcome!