Prokhorovka. The Great Tank Battle

[Askari19]

The autopsy continues...

According to Strenght Dialog (and I don't trust it fully), Soviets had these AFVs remaining at the end  of the battle:

- 10 T-70s
- 140 T-34s (so we lost only 66% of them...)
- 6 M3Ms
- 13 Churchills
- 4 KV-Is
- 2 SU-76s
- 6 SU-122s
- 4 SU-152s
- 12 Ba-64 ACs
- for a total of 197 AFVs.

This puts the total Soviet AFvs at 695 (including ACs), which in turn puts our AFV loss ratio at 72%.

140 out of 150 T-70s lost...

Madness. 

In the central sector, 18 Tank Corps and its follow-on forces reminded the light tankers that their job is to die for information, and with the prospect of Uncle Joe's justice awaiting them, they did just that. 

Short visibility was a major factor in the early, foggy turns, which was mostly to the Soviets' advantage, but it did mean that when you came out of the fog at 2-3-4 hex range, the AP fire was quite deadly.

The distributed mountain of T-70 wreckage (not to mention all the rest) will feed the foundries of the motherland for quite some time... and be reincarnated in forms much more formidable.  I.e., Comrade can afford the losses, and learns to stop worrying and love attrition warfare.