**Fortress - Stirring the Pot

[Herr Straße Laufer]

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28 July 1941
Velikiye Luki, 220km NW of Smolensk:[Version 1.0][HISB-HYPO][EA
or not] [N V V] As the strategic push for Moscow moves forward
the Germans try to create a huge "Kessel". It was not always
about defeating the Russians that they faced locally, it was
more gobbling up pieces of ground, surrounding large formations,
and cutting them off. On the operational maps the German Army
Command saw large "kettles" that were full of Russian soldiers
waiting to be trapped. In this battle a reinforced German Regiment
tries to break through a fortress town in an effort to grasp
the handle of the larger Kessel of Smolensk. This German force
is tasked to push aside the town garrison and continue driving
Eastward. The Russians must hold onto this "fortress" to prevent
the Germans from "putting the lid on the kettle". Later in the
war this area was one where the Germans would fight a defensive
battle against overwhelming odds, in the snow, to keep the Russians
from making a kettle. As for now they must simply push aside
Russian resistance and close the lid.