Stalin's Fury (2nd Edition)

Please note that in 2013 Critical Hit started producing products with 12" x 18" cardstock maps. This ASL product will contain this new style of map.

STALINGRAD, SOVIET UNION, 7 October 1942: The first stage of the battle, through September, let the factory district off lightly, though the Germans made some efforts in the factory area on September 27th. The Tractor Works area saw only sporadic fighting for the next few days, and the 115th Special Brigade of workers was heavily reinforced by the 37th Guards Rifle Division and elements of the 84th Tank Brigade. The Sixth Army was quiet until 6 October, when the Germans attacked the Tractor Works directly with the 14th Panzer Division coming from the southwest and the 60th Motorized Infantry from the west. The masses of tanks with accompanying infantry pressed Zholudev’s 37th Guards Riflemen slowly back, but not without a heavy toll being exacted from the attackers.

A lull settled over the area after a fantastic success by a rapid-firing Soviet Katyusha rocket battery—it wiped out an entire German battalion (some 600 men) of the 60th west of the railway bridge over the Mechetka. In the heat of the action, the German 103rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment cut straight through to the Volga bank on the south side of the Tractor Works. Radioing their success to headquarters, the Germans were able to achieve their aim of reaching the Volga and cutting the Russian defenses in two, albeit at a high cost. But they must have been puzzled by the continued strength of the defense. No longer could the Russians be bullied into surrender just by being surrounded. In Stalingrad the rules were different.

Speaking of time slip-sliding away ... another patch of the irreplaceable asset is moved on upwards of nine years and is now back and part of the FLAT BOARD SERIES! You get six updated scenarios, all playable on the 12" × 18" board that comes to you, as the title says, FLAT with no folds. The action is intense, and plays at a scale that is rather historical, not watered-down ... and Stalin is furious! At least he will be if you pull von Paulus' irons out of the fire in these scenarios! A FREE BONUS SHEET of 140 counters is added to each copy from the CH collection of color die-cut counters.