Novorossijsk V1.00  

Name: Safran
eMail: freaksafran@hotmail.de
Mapname: [6.8]Novorossijsk V1.00
Size: 256*256
SP or MP: Multiplayer
SP : ----
MP: 4-4
map: Normale Map
Version: Sudden Strike 2
Szenario: Sommer/Summer
Kampfart: taktisch/tactical
Mod: RWM 6.8 (SS 2)

Late summer/autumn 1942. In the second week of July 1942, the campaign began in the Caucasus. The purpose of this enterprise was to occupy the oil fields of Maikop, Grozny and the Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Sukhum and Batum. After the heaviest fighting, the 17th, 73rd, 125th and 198th infantry divisions, supported by the 1st and 4th German and 2nd Romanian mountain divisions, managed to capture the city of Krasnodar. Their next target was: Novorossiysk... Since the Russians protected every leg and turned every house into a fortress, the losses outnumbered the Germans from the very beginning, were very high. Therefore, the Panzergruppe Kleist (consisting of tank corps LVII and III and XXXXIX AK) was assigned to attack Novorossiysk by the 17th Army. When the city was reached, a new complex danger had to be prepared; Since the Russians barely had more heavy weapons and their rest was used in Stalingrad, the commander of the Russian city and fortress forced the commander of the heavy artillery of the Black Sea Fleet to use effective defensive fire on the approaching Germans. The ridge to Novorossiysk was fortified and allowed close observation of the hinterland. The impending disaster of Stalingrad required more troops so that the German tanks would have to be withdrawn before the city could be captured. The infantry regiments after the capture of the city were heavily besieged by the huge Russian reinforcements that had now arrived. so they had to withdraw from the Caucasus to the Crimean peninsula or to the Kuban bridgehead to avoid encirclement (due to advance from Stalingrad by the Russian Kalmunkestpepps) or exhaustion (by enemy superiority in the Caucasus). Team1: German Team2: Russians This map is designed for 4-8 players.