This should highlight some of the new tactical skills and ideas that you’ll be needing when playing as a Soviet commander. With that in mind, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at a smaller section of the Rzhev Offensive around the Volga crossing.
The adjustments to play style that this requires can be difficult, but we feel it’s well worth it because it gives an entirely new perspective on this period of the war. Our intention is that playing as the Soviets feels authentic with respect to history. As a result, the “Rzhev meat grinder” plays very differently from anything you’ve seen in Unity of Command II before. The mechanics and the scenario design were carefully adapted to the period. When designing this scenario for Moscow 41, we really wanted to do these momentous events justice.
They are also not very well known in the west, especially given how the Red Army suffered a quarter of a million dead there in early 1942 alone. But be warned: although weakened, the fascist invaders are still dangerous and will remind you that commanding the Red Army means accepting losses.The battles around Rzhev are easily among the toughest and bloodiest of the entire World War II.
You will be in charge of fresh Tank Corps as they launch ‘deep battle’ strikes into the enemy’s rear. This time period includes some of the largest encirclements of Axis forces in the war. Now, with their enemy perilously overextended, the Soviets aim to strike several devastating blows at Hitler’s armies.ĭon ‘42 covers the Soviet offensives from the Don to the Dnieper during the fateful winter of 1942/43. By November, German attacks culminated in the rubble of Stalingrad and in the frozen foothills of the Caucasus.
During the desperate defensive battles in late summer and autumn 1942, the Soviet high command carefully husbanded its reserves.
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