WaW 13 German Ostfront Victory

In early 1941, the Russians attacked at Uman without armor support and our stalwart defenders routed their southern army. Vowing to make the Soviet dogs trot about on leashes, the 45th Panzer Division went straight for Moscow by way of Novgorod in the north. Operation Twilight of the Gods brought Thor's hammer, in the form of heavy rocket artillery, down upon the unsuspecting Russians. Despite superior armor, the determination of our troops prevailed and the way to Moscow was open.

Making use of the newly produced Tiger tanks, the 45th Panzer managed to push the Soviets out of their own capital, though the hard fighting took its toll on our armor reserves. Those we did possess were frozen in the harsh Russian winter and would not budge. With the spring rains, the roads turned to mud and halted our advance. The Russians, however, managed to reorganize their southern army and drove a counter-attack through Odessa, reclaiming ground. Taking advantage of the weaker defenses of our Romanian allies in the south, they chose to keep marching westward. In a final drive for German soil they assaulted Lublin in Poland, where fresh German troops and panzers were being transported to reinforce the 45th Panzer. With supply lines stretched thin and outgunned on both the land and in the air, our troops not only halted the Soviet advance, but almost completely annihilated their southern army.

The replenished 45th Panzer Division, having been redeployed to Minsk, brought numerous Panthers and King Tigers along with the finest infantry equipment Germany could offer, and wiped out the much-needed armored reinforcements at Kiev destined for the southern army group. This was the final nail in the coffin for the Bolsheviks. After five long years of fighting, the Soviets negotiated a separate peace with the Fatherland...a great, but costly victory.

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[qjzccc]

The Music is from the Movie"Battle Royal"the Japanese movie,right?

[erichritter]

I'm not sure where the music has been used previously, but neither were composed specifically for a movie.

The first song was composed by Verdi in the 1870's as a Requiem for a poet friend of his. This specific piece is the beginning of the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath in latin).

The second piece is an instrumental version of Ständchen (Serenade in English) by Franz Schubert and was written in 1826. It is also performed as a lied (piano with one singer).

I hope this helps.

[infokemp]

You have constructed a quite realistic senario here, if the Germans had gone for Moscow not worrying about their flanks I am sure the soviets would have tried a southern offensive like this in winter when they have the advantage. Attacking into the build up area of the Germans though would have caused a Soviet defeat as show by Kharkov & Arnheim.

Well done 5 starts

[erichritter]

It's actually more interesting than that. I didn't come up with this scenario, it occurred "naturally." I was an officer in command of an infantry company and a member of the officer staff of the German army (which was made up of several people). Likewise, the Russians had many officers, as well. Based on our decisions on where to attack and with equipment available at those points in history, the scenario played out as you said...but it was all done in actual fighting in BF1942. :-)

[sternberg1]

whats that music around 2:40?

[erichritter]

Franz Schubert is one of my favorite composers. This is an instrumental version of his Lied titled Standchen (the a has an umlaut over it, but I don't know how to type that). Come to think of it, the version with Thomas Quasthoff singing might have been as effective. I spent a little time getting the music just right. :)

[CrniWuk]

@infokemp

Soviet defeat ? Germany loost the War the moment it has started it. How so ? Its part of history really. Germany, Hitler and his high command had no plans regarding a win. IN a usual war you have ideas, you win and go home or make contracts, loose land something like that. The idea behind the third Reich in Hitlers mind was to kill whole races and the genocide. How to achieve that ? The Third Reich was already doomed from the first day.

[49bobbyk]

The Russians had a virtually unlimited amount of men. I have heard German officers say that two things were always a problem. The vastness of Russia and the unending supplies of fresh troops. The drive to Moscow had to be direct. The Russians should never have had the chance to move the factories to the Urals. What might have changed things is if Japan had attacked from the other side. If the Axis had given Russia a two front war.

[HeartlessGorre]

@infokemp you forget that most german troops died of cold in the eastern front, not bullets.

[infokemp]

Thats amazing! The Bunderwehr is a very impressive army. I was in the British para reserve so we look to the fallschirmjager as sort like the orginal paratroopers. The bunderwehr paras look up to us I think it is recognized that the British paras are the top airborne force. I would not like to say between the British panzers & the German panzers both have awesome tanks in the Challenger & Leopard 2.

Do you think the Bunderswehr could take on Russia now?

[infokemp]

You are right that is why the soviets had their troops in the forward position & why they had so many heavy casualties. WW2 was suposed to happen in 1947 this when the Soviet attack was planned & also coincidently when the German army said it could mount major ops after France. The Soviet attack in my opinion would have been defeated because the Germans would of had their advanced weapon by then. Instead of being inferior to the Soviets in weaponry.

[infokemp]

Another what if history project good work!

[erichritter]

Yes, it is purely fiction. I used real footage to recreate a fictional Eastern Front campaign in a Battlefield 1942 tournament. Romania 1943 was very bad for us (the Germans), if I recall. :)