- General :
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Use 17
Solitaire Campaign rules. 17.21-24 are
NA (see below).
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When
no mention is made regarding a specific item follow the Mission instructions.
-Campaign
structure : Weekly Missions.
-Unit : 2nd
Company/1st Battalion/20th Guards Rifle Regiment/7th
Guards Rifle Division
-Composition
[US#35/24]: Leader x 2, 458 x 9, 248, 127 x 2, HMG, MMG, LMG x 5, 50mmMTR, ATR
-ELR : 3
-Special :
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All
Company elements are considered Elite for all rules purposes and all have
Winter Camouflage. The S18.5 note is in
effect for S17.821.
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No
German units have Winter Camouflage.
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All
Missions are played in Snow. Roll on
E3.7 with an additional +1 drm
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FBE is
east unless stated otherwise.
By
December 1941 the German 9th Army was making its last effort in
trying to reach Moscow from the northwest. Some motorcycle elements of the 62.
Panzepioniere Regiment reached Chimki within a mere 23 km’s northwest from the
Kremlin. Different units of
Rokkosovsky’s 16th Army were trown into the fray in order to stop
this last desperate effort. The exhausted Germans were stopped cold in their
last attempt to take the capital.
Type : Enemy
Offensive (9)
Mapboard
selection : A8d
Initial
mapboards : On a dr £ 2 the easternmost board (only) uses
Table 8b with a +2 DRM
Weather :
EC are Snow with a Mild Breeze from the Northeast.
Enemy ELR :
2
There is an
additional +1 DRM on tables G2, G5a, G7 and G8
Starting
5 December the Soviet Counteroffensive hit the tired and cold Germans hard. 7th
Guards Rifle Division was thrown into the fight and ordered to widen a gap in
the German lines. At the end of the first week German troops were thrown back
along the whole frontline.
Type : Take
the Highway (5)
Mapboard
selection : Roll directly on the Farmland table
Initial
mapboards : Weather : EC are Snow with a Mild Breeze from the Northeast
Mission End
: Divide the total Road Network by 4 (four) to determine the number of turns.
Enemy ELR :
2
There is an
additional +2 DRM on tables G2, G5a G7 and G8
After
the massive blast of the Russian onslaught several pockets of German
strongpoints mostly based around the few villages remained behind the undefined
frontline. 20th Guards Rifle
Regiment cleaned up the German remnants in order to secure the new baseline for
the assault on Istra.
Type :
Pockets (2)
Mapboard
selection : A8d. Roll each board with a –1 DRM
Weather :
EC are Snow with a Mild Breeze from the East
Enemy ELR :
2
German
troops were trying to make a stand around Istra but found it hard to realise
anything resembling a solid front in the bitter cold. 7th Guards hit
them hard and threw them back once again.
Type : Bunker Busting (4)
Mapboard
selection : Roll on A8d for the northmost board and A8b for the next.
Intitial
mapboards : Use configuration B
Weather :
EC are snow with no wind at start.
Enemy ELR :
3
MSR 2 is in
effect only when rolling doubles ³ 10.
The end
of December saw 7th Guards Division on the move covering the
southern flank near Zagorye.
Encountered German elements were swiftly destroyed after which the
division was withdrawn for rest and refit.
Type :
Recon (3)
Mission
tables : there is a –2 drm for the friendly RE determination
Mapboard
selection : Use A8e for all mapboards.
Weather :
EC snow with a Hard Wind from the Northeast
Enemy ELR :
3
© 2002 By
Hans Mielants
Sources
: Geoffrey Jukes “The Defence of
Moscow” 1970.
Charles Sharp “Soviet OoB WWII. IV” Nafziger, 1995.