The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Strela]

I love puzzles, but that screenshot is making my head spin for the moment.

According to the OOB I have in front of me, the only Tank Corps with a Guards Tank Regiment directly attached to it at Kursk was the 18th. However, the depicted Tank Corps also has a Guards Mortar battalion or something like that, which the 18th didn't have according to this OOB.

There were only two Guards Mechanized Corps in the central part of the Kursk area, the 3rd and the 5th. The 6th participated in Kutuzov. The dimensions of the map seem to limit the map to from the active parts of 4th Panzer Army and III Panzer Korps units up to Prokhorovka.

The area looks somewhat similar to what the Msensk area looks like in Moscow '42, and there is a north/south major road that might be it, but the dimensions of the map prevent it from including the area Kutuzov was launched in and on the Moscow '42 there is no swampy terrain in the area. Furthermore, all units presented thus far were situated in the south.

That means that unless north isn't actually north on this map, it has to be the eastern flank of Kempf or something like that as the fact that all of III Panzer Korps divisional commanders are there and not them+replacements (which the title supports) precludes Rumyantsev being included, which in turn gives its own problems.

In terms of dimensions, the scenario in the screenshot covers about a quarter of the main map on the X axis and about a third on the Y axis.

The main thing that makes this difficult to solve is: what is that Guards Mechanized Corps doing there if it isn't the 5th? The Rumyantsev attacks came in primarily from the north, in this case they come in from the east along some 30-ish kilometres of the front. Another question is who the guys in light blue are and why they have Tigers.

ComradeP,

I'm sitting here smiling. You could tie yourself in knots trying to work out what your looking at without guidance.

I haven't seen posted anywhere a Guards Mortar unit with the aforementioned Tank Corp - where did you get that idea? I have just gone through the thread and I can't see anything here...?

North is north.

In terms of dimensions I mentioned earlier in the thread that the entire game map is 299 x 341 = 101,959 hexes. The scenario shown in the jump map is 77 x 121 = 9,317 hexes. That's a 'massive' 9.14% of the total map covered in that scenario

As far as the colours of units we have not used the 'traditional' Black for SS etc.

I spent a lot of time experimenting with different counter colours with the aim of making them easy on 'ageing' eyes

We ended up deciding on slightly lighter colours but still based close to the traditional hues. You can see below that the Wehrmacht, though light blue in the centre is based on Grey/Green while the Luftwaffe uses a more Royal blue with a similar centre. The SS are shades of grey. The Soviets took time to determine and the Guards were probably the hardest to get right. If the red is too saturated it ends up looking garish. We think we got it pretty close in the end.


Here are examples of each Nationality at 1 to 1 size (Divisional markings are off);




Here is the same shot expanded (in Photoshop) to twice the size - it shows the counter detail pretty clearly.




David