Tom TCMHQ Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 Title: Operation Rshew Forest Type: Soviet Assault Best played as: German defender or PBEM Date: August 1942 Location: Rshew Weather conditions: Warm and damped Lenght: 10 battles - 15+ turns each Author: Frank Torweihe Historical background August 1942: While German Army Group South was advancing on Stalingrad and the Caucasus, the weakened troops of Center Army Group ( under command of Generaloberst Model ) were involved in violent defensive actions. In particular the frontline at Rshew was a thorn in the eye of the Russian HQ. With large numerical superiority the Russians made attacks to the north and the east of the city. The German Infantry Regiment 428 , a unit from the 129. Inf. Division ( and now subordinated to the 6th. Inf. Div ) was ordered to throw back the Soviets already sitting in the city forest of Rshew . Without waiting for the arrival of the entire Regiment , the I./418 ( 1st Btn. ) attacked the numerical superior entrenched Russians and conquered a large part of the forest. But despite all heroic efforts the Btn. was nearly wiped out during these attacks and the badly battered units were forced to entrench themselves in the conquered positions. They knew that the Russians would counterattack soon....... Sources: A book abouth the history of the German 129th Infantry Division and a 1:25000 topographical map of the battleground. Comment: I am currently playtesting this marvellous operation ( and had restart it again on battle Nr. 4 cause I made some real stupid tactical decisions before ). The atmosphere in this battle is overwhelming and its a real " nailbitter ". No spoilers here ... download it from my website at the " Scenarios 1942 " section. Cheers Tom 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 Will try this one out in the very near future. Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted November 1, 2002 Share Posted November 1, 2002 Your right this is a great operation. I'm starting the second battle nice little surprises that keep you on your toes. Great job on the map also. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted November 2, 2002 Share Posted November 2, 2002 Oh Yeah one more thing, that 75 AT gun posted on the west side of the map kicks some major rusky butt in the first battle, the armor covered arc is deadly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russkly Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Hi Tom, Has your site gone now? I was trying to download Rshew Forest from The Scenario Depot, but the link didn't work, so I tried TCMHQ and that didn't work either. Hope you're okay! Russkly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GJK Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Tom's link in his post above isn't working for me either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooz Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 Tom, I also can no longer access your fine webpage--I keep receiving a "Webpage not found" message. :mad: This sucks because I have always enjoyed your page. Regardless, if you can zip me a file of your op, I will provide some feedback. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryInk Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Tom Tom...whereforartthou Tom??? My fav' CM site seems to be no longer...despite the first post above. The link don't work and I've had no joy from the Wargamer site either (www.wargamer.com) where most of the hosted sites seem shot. Sent you a garbled email in awful German and probably garbled English. Please let me/us know if your site is still alive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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