Mozdok August 1942
List and number of tanks for the opponents.
AlIies
Germans
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Settings:
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Tickets: 30 000
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Respawn limits:
- Soviets: 45 times/team, 4 times/player.
- Germans 30 times/team, 3 times/player.
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Recommended time limit: 60 minutes
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Recommended number of players: 30-32 (15/15 or 16/16)
Historical background
Case Blue (German: Fall Blau), later renamed Operation Braunschweig, was the German Armed Forces' (Wehrmacht) name for its plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942.
The operation was a continuation of the previous year's Operation Barbarossa, intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war, and involved a two-pronged attack against the oil fields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance towards Baku. For this part of the operation, Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) of the German Army was divided into Army Groups A and B (Heeresgruppe A and B). Army Group A was tasked with crossing the Caucasus mountains to reach the Baku oil fields, while Army Group B protected its flanks along the Volga.
Initially, the offensive saw gains, with an advance into the Caucasus capturing large areas of land and several oil fields. However, the Red Army defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, following Operations Uranus and Little Saturn. This defeat forced the Axis to retreat from the Caucasus. Only the city of Kursk and the Kuban region remained tentatively occupied by Axis troops.
Strength:
Axis: Soviet Union:
1,300,000 personnel Initially: 2,700,000 personnel
1 million Germans 1,700,000 men
300,000 German allies 1,000,000 reserve
1,900 tanks 3,720 tanks
1,610 aircraft c. 1,700 aircraft
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