0713_01 The Strip - PzC 01 Smolensk '41

Gusino, W of Smolensk along the Orsha-Smolensk Highway: On the 13th July 1941, the 17th Panzer Division had another encounter with the T34. At dawn the leading regiment of 17th Panzer moved into action along the Orsha-Smolensk Highway near Gusino. They went through waving grain crops, across potato fields, and over shrub grown heath. Around 1000 hours contact was made with the enemy. General Yeremenko had brought up some fresh units of the 20th Soviet Army. They were moved into the strategically important strip of land to bar the road to Smolensk, the very road 17th Panzer were now trying to force! This scenario can be played either H2H or vs. the AI from either side, but will provide the most challenge with a Human German against the AI. [500 sq Km - 12 Turns]