kohlenklau Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Finalizing a scenario. Thought to ask the peanut gallery what type armor would support an assault into a city. Specifically, Witebsk. 26 June 1944. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Finalizing a scenario. Thought to ask the peanut gallery what type armor would support an assault into a city. Specifically, Witebsk. 26 June 1944. Whatever was at hand I suspect. I don't think the germans (or even the russians) had the luxury of handpicking what armor support they would bring into a city assault. But I can imagine that assault guns live up to their names in cities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerMike Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Just a quick scan on the internet: "The assault began as planned on the 22 June. At 4:00am the 6th Guards and 43rd Armies charged forward after a devastating artillery and air barrage. The scale of the initial assault was frightening. Everyone of the seven soviet rifle divisions involved committed two out of its three rifle battalions to the assault alongside a total of 400 armoured vehicles from four tank brigades, three tank regiments and four assault gun regiments. All of this firepower was unleashed on the small 20km area of the line occupied by the German 252nd Infantry Division and Corps Detachment D." Well, I guess basically everything is possible on the Soviet side (normal tanks and SP guns). On the German side it would probably be Stugs and Hetzers in support of the 252 infantry division. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saferight Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Well if i'm doing the attacking it would have to be mostly armor sporting 122-152mm guns to flatten as many buildings and floors as possible Can't go wrong with a few Zveroboy supporting a urban assault. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 What was that line that Steve (or whoever) wrote in the manual? If in CMBN you might pick a platoon of Shermans for a battle, in CMFI you'd want to pick a company of IS-2s. Soviet doctrine did not rely on the skills of small units to get a job done. If they wanted an objective taken they'd take a sledgehammer to the place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Although I think it would be interesting to see a company of T-34/76's supporting infantry in urban combat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kohlenklau Posted July 24, 2014 Author Share Posted July 24, 2014 Map is only 352 x 320 of downtown Witebsk! Scenario will be Axis Human vs Soviet AI so I will not give away what I finally selected... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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