https://wiki.tripwireinteractive.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Wilsonam&feedformat=atomTripwire Interactive Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T21:37:24ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.40.0https://wiki.tripwireinteractive.com/index.php?title=Red_October_Factory&diff=918Red October Factory2012-05-31T22:20:00Z<p>Wilsonam: /* Story */</p>
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'''Date''': 21st November 1942<br />
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'''Location''': Red October Factory<br />
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'''German unit''': 24.Pz.Div., LI Armee Korps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 112 Guards Rifle Regiment, 39 Guards Rifle Division<br />
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'''Background''': Unaware of the disaster looming behind them, the PanzerGrenadiers of 24.Pz.Div. make yet another attempt to break through the resistance at the Red October factory, where 39 Guards have been hanging on grimly for weeks. The factory has been bombed and shelled into ruins, making the assaults a nightmare, made even worse by the onset of winter.<br />
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'''Situation''': The PanzerGrenadiers of 24.Pz.Div. are required to push forward again, supported by the last few mobile tanks of the division. Holding the ruins are the men of 39 Guards Rifle Division – another unit created from elite airborne units.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': The fighting in the Red October plant ground down to a stalemate, the Germans never able to push through to the river.<br />
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'''Notes''': The map layout was taken directly from a Russian plan of the factory area, even down to the building names. However, there was almost no available ground-level photography of the plant itself, so the detail had to be taken from other steel plants!<br />
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'''Date''': 20th November 1942<br />
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'''Location''': 50 miles north-west of Stalingrad<br />
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'''German unit''': 22.Pz.Div., Army Group Reserve<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 1 Tank Corps, 5 Tank Army<br />
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'''Background''': With the sudden launch of the Soviet Operation “Uran”, the Germans were faced with a massive attack through the Rumanian positions well to the north-west of Stalingrad, on the snowy steppe, south of Serafimovich. The only German mobile reserve in the area was 22.Pz.Div., who were called into emergency action to try and hold back the vast assault.<br />
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'''Situation''': The armor of 22.Pz.Div. had to advance towards the sound of the guns to the north, then dig in and try and destroy the onrushing Soviet spearheads. These were fresh Soviet troops, primed, ready and fully-equipped.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': 22.Pz.Div. struggled to actually get moving, as they were short of parts and fuel. They were hit with ever-changing situation reports and contradictory orders. As a result, they were never in one place long enough to inflict much damage on the Russian spearheads. If they had stopped for any length of time, they most likely would have been cut off and destroyed anyway. Only a few days later, the Soviet spearheads would meet at Kalach on the Don, encircling 6th Army.<br />
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'''Notes''': The map is based on the actual layout of Gumrak airfield and the station building. However, Gumrak is actually on a few miles from the city - and the Germans had pretty much no operational tanks by the time the Soviets got there, so the action is somewhat "apocryphal"!<br />
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'''Date''': 13th November 1942<br />
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'''Location''': Behind the Barrikady Factory, 200 meters from the Volga<br />
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'''German unit''': Pi.Btl.50, with armor attached from 24.Pz.Div.<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 650 Rifle Regiment, 138 Rifle Division<br />
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'''Background''': The fighting through the Barrikady was some of the worst of the German assault, with specialist combat engineers being brought up to drive the final assaults forward. But faced with the huge main admin block (known to the Germans as the Commissar’s House), they called up armor support, as all the assaults over the previous days had failed.<br />
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'''Situation''': The pioneers were faced with crossing open ground in order to get between the massive buildings in the area. They would rely on tank and artillery support and as much smoke as they could get to cover their movements. The Russians had held this area with extraordinary determination and weren’t about to let go.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': The pioneers finally managed to break into the Commissar House, trying to clear it before the inevitable Soviet counter-attack launched. Ultimately, they took the building, but failed to clear the whole area - and the remnants of 138 Rifle Division held out in "Lyudnikov's Island"<br />
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'''Notes''': Some of the apartment buildings are still standing today, as well as the "Pharmacy" building itself, along what is now Volzhsky Prospekt.<br />
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'''Date''': 14th October 1942<br />
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'''Location''': 9th January Square<br />
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'''German unit''': 295.Inf.Div, LI Armee Korps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 3/42Guards Rifle Regiment, 13 Guards Rifle Division<br />
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'''Background''': Two weeks after they stormed ashore, in the night of 27th September, a small unit of 13 Guards had infiltrated an apartment block on the east side of the square. After the initial leader of the group (Lt. Afanseyev) had been wounded, Sergeant Pavlov dug his men in to hold the house against all comers.<br />
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'''Situation''': 295.Inf.Div. now had to try and evict Pavlov’s men from another heavily-built apartment building, assaulting through the ruins to the south or across the open ground of 9th January Square itself.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': Sergeant Pavlov actually held on to the house for nearly 60 days, into mid-November. But if the Germans could have taken it, they would have been less than 200 meters from the last river crossing still operable in the city center.<br />
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'''Notes''': With "Dom Pavlova" being one of the most iconic locations in the battle, it was important to try and model it as correctly as possible. Not much survived the battle in the area and most of it was bulldozed prior to reconstruction. However, there was good aerial photography and a few ground-level pictures to work from. Much of the interior of the house is actually modeled on the interior of apartment blocks built around the same time in the Tractor Factory Lower Settlement.<br />
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'''Date''': 6th October 1942<br />
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'''Location''': Apartment block in the Upper Settlement of the Tractor Factory<br />
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'''German unit''': 389.Inf.Div, LI Armee Korps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 114 Guards Rifle Regiment, 37 Guards Rifle Division<br />
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'''Background''': As 6th Army worked to clear the approaches to the factories, the tanks of 24.Pz.Div. had stalled as they entered the more built-up sections of the city, so 389.Inf.Div. fed past on their left to start clearing out the well-built apartment blocks. Once again, Soviet resistance hardened in front of the Germans.<br />
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'''Situation''': 389.Inf.Div. moved in to start clearing out the next modern apartment block, heavily-built 2-storey buildings, with the complex straddling the Zhitomirsk Balka (Gully). The Guardsmen of 114 Guards Rifle Regiment were paratroopers, converted to ground infantry, highly motivated, elite troops. They had little time to prepare the defenses, but they were prepared to make the Germans pay.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': It took the Germans 4-5 days of hard fighting to clear the area and consolidate the gains against the highly-decorated Guardsmen, who would go on to further frustrate the Germans.<br />
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'''Notes''': As a shocker to most people, the area does actually exist, even today. The map started life as a "port forward" of the old RO1 favorite map - "Danzig". By chance, aerial recon photos showed an area that almost exactly mirrored the layout of the original map, just mirrored. Much to everyone's surprise, the apartments were rebuilt and most of them are still there today, along Opolchenskaya ul. At the time of the battle, there was actually a gully through there - just no bridges (as far as aerial recon photos show)!<br />
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'''Date''': 20th September 1942<br />
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'''Location''': Stalingrad Elevator<br />
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'''German unit''': 94.Inf.Div., XXXXVIII Pz.Korps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': Mixed remnants of 10 and 92 Rifle Brigades, plus volunteers from the Volga Flotilla<br />
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'''Background''': As 24.Pz.Div. reached the railway line, everything around the elevator seemed quiet – no Russian resistance. So they left the building alone, turning north to help with the fighting around the city center. However, before 94.Inf.Div. could close up and consolidate the gains, a small group of Soviet riflemen had slipped into the elevator and proceeded to defy all attempts to remove them from the immense concrete structure.<br />
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'''Situation''': 94.Inf.Div. has been taking substantial casualties trying to clear out the elevator over the past two days, while the Russians have not only held out, but have managed to get reinforced. Now 94.Inf.Div. has them properly isolated and is prepared to fight their way into the fortress. The Soviet defenders are equally prepared to stop them.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': 94.Inf.Div. went on taking casualties and only finally cleared the building when the defenders ran out of ammunition and water, at which point the survivors managed to slip out, past the exhausted Germans dug in around them and a small handful escaped. But it was the last resistance in the south of the city.<br />
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'''Notes''': The elevator was rebuilt/repaired and was (officially) back in operation for the summer of 1943. A team from Tripwire Interactive was actually the first set of westerners to be allowed into the building since the war. A team that included the Australian author Jason Mark got in there a little while afterwards, with a little help from Tripwire - but Tripwire hadn't announced any details, so we couldn't comment on the videos put up on Youtube!<br />
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'''Date''': 15th September 1942<br />
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'''Location''': Central Railway Station<br />
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'''German unit''': 76.Inf.Div., LI ArmeeKorps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 1/42nd Rifle Regiment, 13th Guards Rifle Regiment<br />
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'''Background''': As the Germans moved into the city center, the resistance stiffened. The fighting had raged for 24 hours around the railway station already, with the remnants of the 10th NKVD Rifle Division finally being destroyed holding on to the station, before Rodimtsev’s Guardsmen arrived to shore up the defense.<br />
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'''Situation''': 76.Inf.Div. has been engaged in brutal combat around the station for over 24 hours, making the troops exhausted but determined. What they hadn’t realized was that they were now facing the first troops of Rodimtsev’s 13th Guards Rifle Division – probably the best unit in the Red Army. However, Rodimtsev’s men were spread terribly thinly, even though prepared to sell their lives dearly.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': 76.Inf.Div. had a further brutal 24 hours, with casualties piling up as the battle for the station see-sawed back and forth. The few Soviet Guardsmen were finally forced to pull back, but only across the square to the building known as the “Nail Factory”. 13th Guards would put up ferocious resistance all the way back through the city center.<br />
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'''Notes''': The Station itself was a complete wreck at the end of the battle and was destroyed, being replaced with the modern version. Some of the peripheral buildings are still there today, although the Barmalay Fountain is long gone. This includes the rebuilt museum at the top of Gogolya and the "X-shaped" building, which was actually a medical facility, as well as the fire tower in the distance - although this was destroyed in the battle and not rebuilt until the 1980s.<br />
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'''Date''': 5th September 1942<br />
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'''Location''': Red Barracks, in the western suburbs of the city<br />
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'''German unit''': 295.Inf.Div., XIV Pz.Korps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 482 Composite Rifle Regiment, 131 Rifle Division<br />
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'''Background''': With 6th Army closed up on the outskirts of the city, the first units are pushed into the city, initially feeling for Russian resistance then, as the Russians seemed so weak, accelerating until they hit some of the odd pockets of resistance.<br />
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'''Situation''': 71.Inf.Div. is leading LI Armee Korps into the western suburbs of the city, a tough, experienced infantry unit. The remnants of 131 Rifle Division had fallen back on the city, concentrating what force they had left on the barracks as a single “composite” regiment. The barracks is one of the many areas trashed in the Luftwaffe bombing a few days earlier, with just rubble and slit-trenches as fortifications.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': 131 Rifle Division put up its last resistance here, was pinned, surrounded and destroyed in short order by the Germans.<br />
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'''Notes''': This is also a real location, with some of the buildings actually being rebuilt after the war, so they are still there to look at, along ul. Rokossovskogo (Rokossovsky St.).<br />
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'''Date''': 31st August 1942<br />
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'''Location''': village on the outskirts of Spartanovka, to the north of the Tractor Factory<br />
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'''German unit''': 16 Pz Div, XIV Pz.Korps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 124 Rifle Brigade, 62nd Army<br />
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'''Background''': as the German XIV Panzer Korps punches through to the Volga at Rynok, 16 Pz.Div. has the task of expanding the corridor, pushing south into the small town of Spartanovka, almost within sight of the Tractor Factory, at the very north end of Stalingrad itself.<br />
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'''Situation''': 16 Pz.Div. is part of the very rapid drive through to the Volga, north of Stalingrad. Resistance suddenly crumbled in front of XIV Pz.Korps a few days earlier and they are within sight of the city – tired, but elated, morale high, on full charge. 124 Rifle Brigade is a fresh unit, has seen very little combat. Having been shunted in help hold the line north of the city, they haven’t had more than a few hours to organize a defence before being hit by the hard-driving 16.Pz.Div.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': XIV Pz.Korps were actually (typically of the Germans) over-stretched and over-reaching. They got to the river, but stalled against the vicious and stubborn defensive line forming north of the city. They were briefly cut off by desperate Soviet counter-attacks, but the rest of 6th Army caught up in time to break through to them again and avoid a major embarrassment.<br />
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'''Notes''': The village does indeed exist and this is a genuine action. However, there was almost no photo research material available, apart from aerial recon photography and maps.<br />
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'''Date''': 31st August 1942<br />
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'''Location''': village on the outskirts of Spartanovka, to the north of the Tractor Factory<br />
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'''German unit''': 16 Pz Div, XIV Pz.Korps<br />
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'''Soviet Unit''': 124 Rifle Brigade, 62nd Army<br />
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'''Background''': as the German XIV Panzer Korps punches through to the Volga at Rynok, 16 Pz.Div. has the task of expanding the corridor, pushing south into the small town of Spartanovka, almost within sight of the Tractor Factory, at the very north end of Stalingrad itself.<br />
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'''Situation''': 16 Pz.Div. is part of the very rapid drive through to the Volga, north of Stalingrad. Resistance suddenly crumbled in front of XIV Pz.Korps a few days earlier and they are within sight of the city – tired, but elated, morale high, on full charge. 124 Rifle Brigade is a fresh unit, has seen very little combat. Having been shunted in help hold the line north of the city, they haven’t had more than a few hours to organize a defence before being hit by the hard-driving 16.Pz.Div.<br />
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'''Real life end result''': XIV Pz.Korps were actually (typically of the Germans) over-stretched and over-reaching. They got to the river, but stalled against the vicious and stubborn defensive line forming north of the city. They were briefly cut off by desperate Soviet counter-attacks, but the rest of 6th Army caught up in time to break through to them again and avoid a major embarrassment.<br />
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'''Date''': 31st August 1942<br />
'''Location''': village on the outskirts of Spartanovka, to the north of the Tractor Factory<br />
'''German unit''': 16 Pz Div, XIV Pz.Korps<br />
'''Soviet Unit''': 124 Rifle Brigade, 62nd Army<br />
'''Background''': as the German XIV Panzer Korps punches through to the Volga at Rynok, 16 Pz.Div. has the task of expanding the corridor, pushing south into the small town of Spartanovka, almost within sight of the Tractor Factory, at the very north end of Stalingrad itself.<br />
'''Situation''': 16 Pz.Div. is part of the very rapid drive through to the Volga, north of Stalingrad. Resistance suddenly crumbled in front of XIV Pz.Korps a few days earlier and they are within sight of the city – tired, but elated, morale high, on full charge. 124 Rifle Brigade is a fresh unit, has seen very little combat. Having been shunted in help hold the line north of the city, they haven’t had more than a few hours to organize a defence before being hit by the hard-driving 16.Pz.Div.<br />
'''Real life end result''': XIV Pz.Korps were actually (typically of the Germans) over-stretched and over-reaching. They got to the river, but stalled against the vicious and stubborn defensive line forming north of the city. They were briefly cut off by desperate Soviet counter-attacks, but the rest of 6th Army caught up in time to break through to them again and avoid a major embarrassment.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
As the German XIV Panzer Korps punches through to the Volga at Rynok, 16 Pz.Div. has the task of expanding the corridor, pushing south into the small town of Spartanovka, almost within sight of the Tractor Factory, at the very north end of Stalingrad itself.<br />
== Situation ==<br />
16 Pz.Div. is part of the very rapid drive through to the Volga, north of Stalingrad. Resistance suddenly crumbled in front of XIV Pz.Korps a few days earlier and they are within sight of the city – tired, but elated, morale high, on full charge. 124 Rifle Brigade is a fresh unit, has seen very little combat. Having been shunted in help hold the line north of the city, they haven’t had more than a few hours to organize a defence before being hit by the hard-driving 16.Pz.Div.<br />
== Real life end result ==<br />
XIV Pz.Korps were actually (typically of the Germans) over-stretched and over-reaching. They got to the river, but stalled against the vicious and stubborn defensive line forming north of the city. They were briefly cut off by desperate Soviet counter-attacks, but the rest of 6th Army caught up in time to break through to them again and avoid a major embarrassment.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
As the German XIV Panzer Korps punches through to the Volga at Rynok, 16 Pz.Div. has the task of expanding the corridor, pushing south into the small town of Spartanovka, almost within sight of the Tractor Factory, at the very north end of Stalingrad itself.<br />
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16 Pz.Div. is part of the very rapid drive through to the Volga, north of Stalingrad. Resistance suddenly crumbled in front of XIV Pz.Korps a few days earlier and they are within sight of the city – tired, but elated, morale high, on full charge. 124 Rifle Brigade is a fresh unit, has seen very little combat. Having been shunted in help hold the line north of the city, they haven’t had more than a few hours to organize a defence before being hit by the hard-driving 16.Pz.Div.<br />
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== Real life end result ==<br />
XIV Pz.Korps were actually (typically of the Germans) over-stretched and over-reaching. They got to the river, but stalled against the vicious and stubborn defensive line forming north of the city. They were briefly cut off by desperate Soviet counter-attacks, but the rest of 6th Army caught up in time to break through to them again and avoid a major embarrassment.<br />
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Station #1 is an imposing building that sits to the west of the city center proper. The rail line runs north-south past the station building, with the large rail yards to the north. This gives anyone in the upper floor of the station building a commanding view in both directions, making it dangerous to push any significant forces across the rail lines. The building became the scene for repeated attacks and counter-attacks over the period of 2 crucial days in the early fighting for the city center.<br />
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By the 18th of September, the German 71st Infantry Division had taken the station, one of the key locations in the city center, as many as 5 times from the men of the Russian 13th Guards Rifle Division. Dug in to the building. Each time they had taken it, the Russians had taken it back. Now, once again, the tired men of 71st Infantry Division have to take it one more time.<br />
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The Stalingrad Grain Elevator stands on the river side of the main rail line through the city, not far from Rail Station #2. The area of older workshops and warehouses had been bulldozed a few years earlier, to build out the “food combine” area, intended to feed the rapidly-growing city. The grain elevator had only been built in 1940 and was in its first full year of operation. The eight-storey building dominated the whole of the southern section of the city and, as a result, was a vital observation point. Whoever held it held the key to the southern section of the city.<br />
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On the 16th September, the German 24th Panzer Division bypassed the grain elevator, ignoring it as it seemed to be completely unoccupied. This turned out to be a mistake, as the Russians infiltrated a small number of troops from 42nd Rifle Brigade, supported by the Naval Infantry of 92nd Rifle Brigade, and occupied the huge building. The German 94th Infantry Division was then forced to assault the building head-on. It took them 3 days to clear the few defenders from the building.<br />
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The Russians built this set of apartment blocks in the “Upper Settlement” near the Tractor Factory shortly before the outbreak of war. The area was intended for senior workers from the factory and their families, with many of the facilities important to such a block, including a Russian bath-house and the local Party office. While the apartments were hardly luxurious, the apartment blocks were well-built. They were placed out on open ground, west of the cheaper wooden housing and survived the early bombing far better. This allowed them to be used as a stronghold in the area for whoever had possession of them.<br />
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