Birth of the Guard  

Birth of the Guard
Map - 384*384
Player - USSR
Enemy - Germany
Map - -IG-
Mission - -IG-
Testing - Old Man, Misurata, Vovan, Vitt, Dedulia
Respect and all respect for all-round help, advice, kicks in the ass and support I express to my colleagues Starik, Misurata, Dedulia, Vitt.
When creating the map, map elements from Rules colleagues, Kalionyy were used.

On July 19, 1941, the 10th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht, marching at the forefront of the 46th motorized corps of the 2nd Panzer Group of Guderian, occupied Yelnya. A further offensive in the direction of Spas-Demensk was stopped by the 24th Army and the enemy was forced to go on the defensive. The so-called Elninsky ledge was formed, which went deep into the Soviet defense and created a threat to the flanks and rear of the Red Army units in the Vyazma direction. In July-August, formations of the 24th Army tried several times to cut off this ledge and level the front. However, all their attempts were unsuccessful.
According to the chief of the German General Staff, Colonel General F. Halder, the battles in the Yelnya region became a typical example of a positional war. The German command managed to withdraw its mobile troops from the Yelnin ledge and replace them with infantry divisions. After another failure to liquidate the enemy’s Elninsk bridgehead on August 21, 1941, the commander of the Reserve Front, General of the Army G.K. Zhukov, ordered Major General K.I. Rakutin to stop attacks and begin preparing a new, stronger and more organized strike.