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The Dark Valley - Barbarossa


Here are the germans plans to win the Barbarossa campain by seizing 33 objectives :

Moscow and Leningrad will not be directly attacked but Wermacht will have to go as far as Vononej and rostov to win the campaign.

Turn 1 :

Riga is captured , while Minsk garrison surrenders.

In the south , soviet counter attacks were a total disaster , leaving open the roads to Kiev.

Turn 2 :

Panzer armies have gone too far and fall OOS , excepted 1st PzA.

In the south 1PzA suceeds in crossing Dniepr south of Kiev , but everywhere else , panzers advance is reduced to very little due to lack of fuel.

Turn 3 :

2nd, 3rd and 4th PzA are always OOS. In front of Smolensk , Soviet counter attacks are quite efficient .

Kied is surrounded by 1st PzA.

Withdrawal of mech corps has created large gaps in Russian front line.

Turn 4 : Despite the arrival of mud, Pz Armies wer able to create nice advances . Kiev has fallen and 4 PzA , coming back from Leningrad advance was succesfull . but 2 Pz divisions are surrounded in Rzhev

Turn 5 : Pz divisions in Rzhev were delivered and , great success, Smolensk was taken by a successfull movement of 2nd PzA, resisting all the furiois soviet counter attacks, including Stavka reserves.

Turn 6 : In the snow PzA 1 have taken Briansk , and connecting with PzA2 , they have created a large soviet pocket.

Enf of Turn 7 , and end of the game :

german panzers retreated to prevent to be caught in the open snow .


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