Smolensk - Eastern Europe, June/July 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Germans
Limited units:
List and number of tanks for the opponents.
AlIies
Limited units:
Settings:
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Tickets: 30 000
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Respawn limits:
- Soviets: 35 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
The First Battle of Smolensk was a battle during the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in WWII It took place around the city of Smolensk between 10 July and 10 September 1941, about 400 km (250 mi) west of Moscow. The Wehrmacht had advanced 500 km (310 mi) into the USSR in the 18 days after the invasion on 22 June 1941.
During the battle the German army encountered unexpected resistance, leading to a severe delay in their advance on Moscow.
Three Soviet armies (the 16th, 19th and the 20th army) were encircled and destroyed just to the south of Smolensk, though significant numbers from the 19th and 20th armies managed to escape the pocket.
Some historians have asserted that the losses of men and materiel incurred by the Wehrmacht during this drawn-out battle and the
two-month delay in the march towards Moscow, led to the defeat of the Wehrmacht by the Red Army in the Battle of Moscow of December 1941.
Strength (by en.wikipedia.org)
Germany: Soviet Union:
ca. 1,000–1780 tanks ca. 1,500 tanks
ca. 1,500 aircraft
Casualties and losses:
Germans: Soviet Union:
214 tanks 1,348–3,273 tanks and SPGs
??? aircraft 903 aircraft
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