Grossdeutschland at Kursk, scenario #46: Tolstoye Woods

A three mapper with three victory objectives for the Germans to try and achieved or not. The Germans have more armor and fewer Infantry, the Soviets have armor but not enough but have more Infantry.

It seemed like my battle was settled pretty early within 15 turns or less. The Germans had control of 10 of the 9 required 40-meter hill hexes and the Soviets only 3. The Soviets lost almost 3 times as many steps as the Germans but the Soviets controlled the town and some of the roads on map 40. Thus the German achieved 2 out of 3 victory objectives.

The Soviets T34Cs tried to help the Infantry with the hills on map 41 and paid the price against the stronger German armor. The T34Bs and T70s with a few Infantry units secured the town on map 40 in a side struggle, as the Germans spent most of the resources and energies on the hill hexes on map 41 to have enough time to deal with the town hexes, even with 5 turns left I couldn’t see them reorganizing enough force to take the town, so the Germans settled on a minor victory. Map 43, was battle zone free.