1st Ukraine Front - Insiders look at a Play Test

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Hi All,

Again, another tardy Turn. I am busy trying to get V3 of the Korsun scenarios completed so thay can go up on Volcano Mods. This is taking what little spare time I have at the moment and the AAR is suffering.

I am planning to probably do turns up to at least the end of the 2nd day, but it is obvious that the Russians are going to be ahead of the historical time line.

In our latest version we are testing further trenches converted to bunkers in front of 40th Army, so the Soviets are bogged down for just a little bit longer (till the end of day two, preferably). We will also probably push back 5th GTC's release by a turn or two. Why? Because 34th & 198th Infantry managed to survive the Soviet onslaught and it is obvious in the current AAR that probably will not be the case.

We are comfortable that we are close to having it right in front of 27th Army. Of interest it appears we have conflicting information on what tank type 233rd Tank Brigade is fitted out with (T-34 or Sherman) and have information that at least 1 battalion had Shermans. We will probably convert one battalion across to the american type.

Most of our research is from Glantz, Nash and Zetterling and there are some significant variations. We are tending to use Zetterling's work as the final word where necessary.

Finally, victory points look way off, unless the Russian forces wipe out the Germans. We will probably change it around so that the Soviets get points for exiting the board as an alternative to stopping and liquidating the German forces. This seems more appropriate because the Russian's primary aim should be to push through Zvenigorodka to meet the adavancing forces from 2nd Ukraine Front.


Will try and get Turn 15 up soon, but if anyone has any questions or comments in the meantime - please pass them on!