Can the Soviets win in Kursk?

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Hmm, I believe the difference between historical outcome and in the campaigns here is because the game does not simulate the conditions of this battle very well, or at all. Like how the russians dug in all their tanks in the north sector to form a static AT defense, after a disastrous mobile counterattack. Historically I believe Ponyri was as far as the germans came in the northern sector. Also a not so insignificant number of artillery pieces were knocked out on the morning before the offensive began as the soviets had mapped out the locations of german arty batteries. Another factor not simulated in the game is that soviet troops dug holes and tunnels underground (they are still to be found in the countryside to this day) to emerge once the front line units had passed through, this way they attacked rear units and many times spearhead units had to be recalled to fend off or neutralize soviet troops that appeared out of nowhere.

These are just a few examples, there were a lot of factors that stacked up against the Germans as the battle went on.