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Turn 1: The post- Kursk soviet counteroffensive rolls on. In this engagement we have elements of a motorised division making a hasty attack against an understrength German grenadier regiment. The battle opens with the advance of two infantry battalions with attached SU-76 and SU-85 assault guns. The 1st battalion heads straight up the road, whilst the 2nd captures the village and then moves along the railway line in a wide flanking arc.   Turn 2: The SU-85's charge ahead, straight into a German ambush! Two Pak40 battery's and a panther platoon bark out from the wheatfield, instantly destroying the soviet assault guns.  Turn 3: Scouts attached to the soviet 2nd battalion uncover a German force guarding the cross roads. They are powerless to stop the grenadiers from combining their firepower with the heavy machineguns in the field as they scythe through the exposed Soviet battalion on the road. Meanwhile the Pak 40's switch targets and quickly eliminate the SU-76's.  T...

  Turn 1: The Germans are counterattacking in Tunisia. A panzer battalion with attached panzer grenadiers sweeps forward on the right and captures a vital hill overlooking the road with no opposition.  Turn 2: The reconnaissance armoured cars boldly dash up the road, uncovering but being rapidly overwhelmed by a company of churchill tanks hull down on the central hill, alongside a 6lb anti tank gun.  Turn 3: With the enemies location confirmed, the second battalion of panzer grenadiers advance towards the centre. The panzers continue their swing around to the right.  Turn 4: A reconnaissance section scouts the treeline ahead of the panzers, uncovering a British infantry company. The bulk of the panzers dip into the gulley towards the enemy tanks.  Turn 5: The two battalions surge forwards towards the central hill in a synchronised attack, and at the same moment the British reveal their reserve on the reverse slope and a whole second battalion in the hedges and w...

Deployment: The Army of Northern Virginia faces disaster. It has been caught out with its Division's scattered across Maryland, and now faces the far larger union army with its back to the Potomac. Fortunately reinforcements are on the way and the union commander seems determined to squander his decisive advantage by sending in his forces piecemeal. In this northern part of the battlefield 'stonewall' Jackson's wing of confederates face a union Corp under 'fightin' Joe Hooker. To win the union must capture the 'Dunker' church near the southern edge of the board by the end of turn 12, signifying that they have successfully turned the rebel flank. For this scenario we are using simplified orders of battle, with Hooker as the sole union Corp commander on the field. We have also standardised brigade sizes at 8 stands to aid speed of play. Both sides have reinforcements with variable arrival times. The union have two starting Division's; Doubleday on the ...