Ponyri Station 7/7/43 - updated 4/2/10

Gents

Posted a new scenario up, part of the battle around Ponyri Station on the Northern flank of the Kursk bulge

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob_mackenzie/

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Cheers

Bob
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Last edited by Bob_Mackenzie on Thu Feb 04, 2010 6:59 pm; edited 1 time in total

Thanks Bob, looks good as always. I'm interested as to how it compares to the same scenario in the ToB book.

Jon

I wasn't aware there was one in the book never really looked at the scenarios

Having now looked ant the scenario in the book the defending forces look about right, but all the references I have indicate that the majority of 18PD was much further west. In deed when I was designing my scenario I was in two minds about whether to include ANY of 18PD in the scenario. I decided to do so as Soviet accounts mention Pz-IV but there could well have been a confusion between Ponyri 1, Ponyri 2 and Ponyri Station. The PD was attacking in the area of Ponyri 1 which IIRC is about 6-8km west of Ponyri Station

Cheers

Bob
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Great looking flame effect on the Crockadile.

...Posted for the wrong scinerio. I do so love to brouse Bob's site.

Just made a minor change the SU-152's in 1442nd SU have been changed to SU-122's, thanks to jacks posting elsewhere on the forum - I found a Russian source that corroborated this
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Don't tell Jack, it'll just go to his head.

Seriously, I find Bob's and Jack's material some of the most dependable on the web.

Well, it might go to my head if,
1) I wasn't wearing a hat
2) my hair wasn't so long
3) I had done the research myself.

I have such a great view because I stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank Marshal Sharposhnikov, who does all this research (and I mean an enormous quantity of research, paying out of pocket for people digging in the archives over there, and translating and compiling an enormous data base - Gehlen fortunately did not know as much). And I think its fair to say Charles' eyes are not as young as mine... He taught himself Russian and some Ukrainian and Polish... just for fun. We are all in his eternal debt.

I've made some (minor) tweaks to the OB - mostly added HQ companies for the Soviets
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Ive posted a smaller version of the scenario to my site, just concentrating on the fighting around Point 253

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob_mackenzie/index.html

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That looks like alot of fun. I'll have to buy a pack of brummbars and give this one a try. Thanks, Bob!
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This may be the first game I run when I get back. this new version of Point 253 look very manigable with some unique equipment.......wonder if I could slip in a mine dog for the Russians.

We played it at the weekend, its definitely balanced, it will be interesting to see if anyone else can get other than a draw

The Ferdinand might be awesome against tanks especially when playing with my revised gun stats but without MG they are utter pants vs dug in infantry

The StuGs and Brummbars are without MG's too
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I just signed up to do this scenario at Heat of Battle.
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Good luck
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