Bucha, Ukraine - 27 Feb 2022 - 15mm

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Battle of Kursk - Drive on Verkopenye (Avalon Hill’s “PanzerBlitz” Game Video)

July 7, 2023

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We continue our series of wargames and discussions commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, switching to Avalon Hill’s classic “PanzerBlitz” system.

We’re now a few days into “Operation Citadel” – the gigantic German pincer attack aiming to slice off the Soviet-held Kursk Salient. Along the southern German attack axis, Panzergrenadier Division “Grossdeutschland” spearheads the XLVIII Panzer Corps / 4th Panzer Army, grinding through successive belts of Soviet defenses and now forcing a way across the Pena River at the town of Verkopenye.

Badly-mauled Soviet defenders of the 3rd Mechanized Corps (1st Tank Army, Voronezh Front) are maintaining a coherent withdrawal … barely … but now the Soviets have released the 6th Tank Corps as well, who are rushing forward to mount a local counterattack at Verkopenye.