Fictional scenarios?

[Turner]

Started playing around with the scenario editor and is having a lot of fun creating a reversed situation scenario based on the _Alt OOB, all units included. It will be interesting to see what the waves of Soviet tanks and infantry can do to the German defensive lines. :)

It's nowhere near complete yet, but almost all German units are on the map now. Just starting to add Soviet units, which will not all be available at once so if you want a maximum effort assault you'd have to wait a couple days or so. Scenario length, don't know yet, set it to same as the original _Alt scenario which is 121 turns.

[Marquo]

The Flashing Sword of Retribution is as historically accurate as I could make it, with OOB from Glantz and Nipes (Last Victory in Russia). I had to "bend" geography a little bit because the Kharkov map is just a bit too small.

OTOH, I did create an entirely fictional campaign using the entire Bulge map and OOB, "Cracking the Meuse Line." --> :)

Spring 1944. The Axis smashed the Allied line last winter, having adopted a more conservative "lesser solution." Liege and Namur have fallen, mostly because the Allies ran like hell to safety beyond the Meuse, where they have regrouped. For the rest of the winter and spring the Axis has fortified the Meuse River Line, and turned the whole damn thing into a fortress with bunkers, pillboxes, mines, antitank ditches...impregnable, so they think. Even pieces of the Siegfried line have been moved west. The units of both sides are well-rested, supplied and refitted. The entire OOB of Bulge'44 is on the field. Ike and Monty have been staring at the damn thing, and have not even come close to figuring a way to take it by frontal assault. Stalin, pissed off at their inaction, has halted his armies on the Vistula, and has even threatened to call a temporary truce with the Axis, until the Western Allies do something, anything to lessen the bloodshed of the Frontoviks. During the mass retreat, the 106th American Infantry Division was cutoff and surrounded, and Ike gave the word for them to surrender en masse, to avoid useless slaughter. They are presently held in captivity in a large POW camp east of Bastogne, and Ike has made it a personal point of honor to free them from their captors. April 1st 1945, in the darkness the drone of thousands of planes can be heard, heading east over the Meuse, carrying no less than 4 Allied Parachute Divisions to secret drop points. Can these guys lead the way Back To Bastogne? And believe me, this ain't going to a be a pinic. The faint-hearted need not download it. Essential House Rules 1. Only Allied Engineers and Airborne units may combine/breakdown. No other Allied units may breakdown. 2. Use No Locking ZOC - do not activate locking ZOC. 3. Use Artillery Setup, recon, virtual supply trucks, night fatigue and programmed weather. 4. To simulate the suprise of the air drop, the Axis may not move any unspotted units until the third move. Notes: The PDT file has been tweaked to allow dawn and dusk moves, artillery stockpiling, increased replacements for both sides, and less Axis vehicle breakdown - on the theory that Russian pressure has lessened until the Western Allies "prove themselves" to Stalin's satisfaction. Good Luck. Also, please no whining about the Allied Air Power - at this point nuclear weapons would have been a serious option.

Marquo

[Turner]

I like the idea of fictional scenarios. Mainly because it's less work to put them together and that it gives you free hands.

This is the description of the Kursk scenario I'm working on. Let me know if anyone is interested in playtesting when it's done.



0600 hrs 5th July 1943 - The failure before Moscow led to a military coup and the assasination of Hitler on new year's eve 1941. After a successful push on Stalingrad in late '42, Army Group South continued to secure the Baku oil fields early in the spring of '43. Further north, Moscow is again threatened but after exhaustive fighting during the spring operations has grinded to a halt frustrating both sides. STAVKA has decided to now concentrate on the "soft spot" between AG Centre and South hoping to break through into the germans rear and throw their efforts in the north or south, hopefully both, off balance. OKH decide to give ground north of Stalingrad to buy time. As a result Tambov, Lipetsk and Voronezh are quickly seized. As the Soviet Army approaches Kursk a fortified defensive line is completed and manned by Wehrmacht troops rushing into prepared positions. Their confidence is bolstered by the arrival of the powerful II. SS PzKorps, III. PzKorps and XLVII. PzKorps behind them. STAVKA recieve information of the german buildup of forces and devise a daring plan to quickly break through to Kursk. Will the german panzer units break the spear of the Soviet Army, or will the germans find themselves in Ukraine next?