Here is a Stalingrad 42 question

[Rev Rico]

It is fascinating how different players view the same strategic situations. I read many accounts of the battle and helped play test accordingly, so I am struck by this thread. I never thought that the Axis would dare move out of the trench line and attack to the north, because my Soviet attack from the south was hard enough to stop. Any thinning of the Axis forces needed to stop the southern pincer would only lead to enveloping Stalingrad from the south (I was shuttling PzDs to the south and north for bare survival).

When I have some time I would like to play an Axis player who adopts such a strategy, because I think as the Soviet I can run over the southern flank handily if the Axis player gets too adventurous in the north.

Marquo

Marquo,

What I did against Krak was
1. Use the 1st day to re-deploy and take northernmost Stalingrad VP hex.
2. The VIII Corps & XIV PzKorps (reinforced with 16 PzDiv, LI Korps artillery, & any Army Troops) attack northward in a pincer around Samofaloka.
3. 94th Inf Div replaces 3 Mot.Inf in north
4. 24th & 14th PzDiv go south to meet southern attack with 29th Mot.Div.
The northern attack was very successful and would have easily bagged many Russian Divs. Then one by one it would engulf the FIXED Rifle Divs before proceeding on to the mobile forces in the rear. I had Nov 20-23 (almost 4 days) to do it before they would be released. I hoped that in the long run the results = northern threat eliminated & lots of Russian losses - would be worth the risk = fatigued divisions & no reinforcement of other sectors. But we never saw what would have happened as we agreed to re-start w/o doing that strategy.

Just my thoughts
Bob