Kursk '43_Alt updated (14 FEB)

[Ricky B]

I believe this is both historical, and reasonable, although not an expert on the artillery. The books I have state that the Soviets dropped a lot of artillery on the Germans in general anyway, prior to the actual attack launch. Also, I believe the German artillery had to redeploy forward to be in range of some of their targets - maybe not all artillery units but some. In that case I would expect they had prepared but unfortified postions prepared for the artillery that did move up into their attack firing positions, rather than being in a heavily prepared defensive position.

I could be wrong on both aspects, but that is my understanding at least.

Rick