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Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works (Retro Edition)

By: Critical Hit

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: Advanced Squad Leader - Eastern Front


Product Info

Title
Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works (Retro Edition)
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Publish Year
2012
Dimensions
8.5x11x.2"
NKG Part #
2147476783
MFG. Part #
CRTASLDTW2
Type
Ziplock

Description

STALINGRAD, SOVIET UNION, 13 October 1942: The major German attack on the Tractor Works of October 4th had been stopped in its tracks by the 37th Guards. The 6th was quiet before they launched another thrust with two infantry divisions and masses of tanks. Zholudev’s Guardsmen were pressed slowly back, but not without exacting a heavy toll on the attackers. A lull settled over the area after a fantastic success was scored by a Russian Katyusha rocket salvo, which wiped out an entire German battalion west of the railway bridge over the Mechetka. As both sides re-grouped, Yeremenko stepped in and ordered a counter-attack against the western outskirts of the Tractor Works, which was launched by the 37th Guards and one regiment of Gorishny's division on the 12th. The attack was quite a success-in Stalingrad terms. Zholudev's men gained 300 yards and Gorishny’s 200 after fighting for the whole of the 13th. It was all for naught, as on the 14th Paulus launched his supreme effort to take the city.

Don't we wish we could all turn back the clock 15 years? A little more hair on top, maybe still driving that convertible before the kids came along. Flipping on the tube to watch John Elway lead his Denver Broncos to the Super Bowl (not to mention Terrell Davis rushing for 1750 yards that season.) The very same month Elway and company put themselves in the record books the original DZERHEZINSKY TRACTOR WORKS was released as the first-ever independent Stalingrad historical module ... replete with small hex map, gray-backed scenario cards, and other testaments to the amateur era of variants.

Well guess what? While supplies last you CAN turn back the clock ... in the form of a retro edition of DTW. They call it retro ... because it is. That's due to a 'barn find' (aka warehouse find) of some cases of the original map and cover sheets. Original cover and map, new layout and art for scenarios and SR booklet plus a 5th bonus scenario. The set also includes 2 campaign games.

This is the original map and cover from the 1997 DTW, plus 4 scenarios and 2 CGs in new layout and art format + a bonus 5th scenario not included in the previous edition.