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Iron Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
German Special Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Reich Marches On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Case Blue—The Opening Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Army Group South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Battle of Stalingrad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Know Your Panzers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Iron Cross Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
24 . Panzerdivision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Panzer IV Tank Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Panzer IV Tank Company HQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Panzer IV Tank Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
11 . Panzerdivision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Panzer III Tank Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Panzer III Tank Company HQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Panzer III (Uparmoured) Tank Company HQ . 24
Panzer III Tank Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Panzer III (Uparmoured) Tank Platoon . . . . . . . 25
Panzer III (Mixed) Tank Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Panzer II Light Tank Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
9 . Panzerdivision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Panzergrenadier Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Panzergrenadier Company HQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Panzergrenadier Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
sMG34 Machine-gun Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
8cm Mortar Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7 .5cm Infantry Gun Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
15cm Infantry Gun Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
295 . Infanterie Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Grenadier Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Grenadier Company HQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Grenadier Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Assault Pioneer Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8cm Mortar Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sniper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Support Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Tiger Heavy Tank Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
StuG (Early) Assault Gun Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Marder (7 .62cm) Tank-hunter Platoon . . . . . . . . 40
Sd Kfz 221 & 222 Light Scout Troop . . . . . . . . . 41
Sd Kfz 231 Heavy Scout Troop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3 .7cm Tank-hunter Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5cm Tank-hunter Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
7 .5cm Tank-hunter Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
10 .5cm Artillery Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
15cm Nebelwerfer Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Panzer II OP Observation Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Sd Kfz 10/4 Light AA Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
8 .8cm Heavy AA Platoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Ju 87 Stuka Dive Bomber Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Ju 87 Stuka Tank-hunter Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
City Fighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Battles in the City Outskirts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Battles in the Inner City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Anatomy of a City Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Moving in City Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Shooting in City Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Assaulting From Outside City Buildings . . . . . . . 56
Assaulting From Inside City Buildings . . . . . . . . 56
Urban Assault Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The Boulevard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Urban Assault Mission Special Rules . . . . . . . . . 59
Painting Iron Cross Troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
German Armour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
German Markings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
German Infantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Basing Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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S OV IET
UN IO N
Leningrad
NORWAY
ESTONIA
SWEDEN
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
Moscow
North Sea
DENMARK
Bialystok
Berlin
Smolensk
Minsk
Kursk
Kharkov
Kiev
G RE AT
BR ITAI N
London
Dunkirk
NETHERLANDS
Warsaw
POLAND
GER MANY
BELGIUM
Paris
Uman
SLOVAKIA
Odessa
Sea of
Azov
CRIMEA
F R AN CE
SWITZERLAND
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
Sevastopol
Black Sea
VICHY FRANCE
YUGOSLAVIA
BULGARIA
I TA LY
SPAIN
CORSICA
Rome
ALBANIA
GREECE
TURKEY
SARDINIA
SICILY
Algiers
Oran
Tunis
CRETE
Mediterranean Sea
TUNISIA
ALGERIA
MOROCCO
Kasserine
Pass
Tripoli
Benghazi
Gazala
Mersa Alexandria
Matruh
Tobruk
El Alamein
L I BYA
Beda Fomm
El Agheila
EG Y P T
0
500
Km
500
M
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The winter battle in Russia is nearing its end. Thanks to the unequalled courage and self-sacrificing devotion of our
soldiers on the Eastern Front, German arms have achieved a great defensive success. The enemy has suffered severe
losses in men and material. In an effort to exploit what appeared to him to be early successes, he has expended during
the winter the bulk of reserves intended for later operations.
As soon as the weather and the state of the terrain allows, we must seize the initiative again, and through the superi-
ority of German leadership and the German soldier, force our will upon the enemy. Our aim is to wipe out the entire
defence potential remaining to the Soviets, and to cut them off, as far as possible, from their most important centres of
war industry. All available forces, German and allied, will be employed in this task.
— Directive No. 41, Adolf Hitler, 5 April 1942
The
Ostfront
(East Front) is enormous in scale, stretching
from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the
south . Over 11 German and 40 Soviet armies face off along
this line . The veterans of the
Ostfront
accomplished many
victories in 1941 . Outnumbered, these professional soldiers
pushed the Soviets to the gates of Moscow, easily brushing
aside and destroying army after army on their way . They
accomplished this thanks to their excellent equipment,
superior training, and extensive battlefield experience . After
weathering a bitterly cold winter, they now stand ready in
the summer of 1942 to fight on and complete the total
destruction of the Soviet Union .
The
Ostfront
German army relies on the tried
and true Panzer  III and IV tanks . These are well
armoured, well armed, and have good mobility,
making them the ideal tanks for successful blitzkrieg
operations on the wide open Russian Steppe .
Backing the panzers up is the new Tiger heavy tank .
Armed with an 8 .8cm gun and the heaviest armour
protection on the battlefield, the Tiger is the most
powerful thing on the battlefield, easily able to
defeat all Soviet tanks .
The Russian Steppe is expansive
with rolling hills and grasslands,
ideal for tank combat . In order to
protect the flanks of the panzers,
infantry fills the gap, armed with
the latest anti-tank guns, such as
the powerful PaK40 gun capable
of cracking the armour of Soviet
heavy tanks .
The infantry also assault cities and villages where tanks dare
not go . Determined riflemen and assault pioneers clear
the way with demolitions and flame-throwers to wipe out
any Soviet defenders and open the way for the panzers to
continue their relentless blitzkrieg march .
It's the summer of 1942, and Hitler has prioritized
Army Group South to receive all of the reinforcements,
equipment, and support possible for his new offensive . New
assault guns, anti-tank guns, and heavy anti-aircraft guns
dealt stand ready to counter Soviet attacks and ensure that
the spearheads charge forward without delay, Finally, the
Luftwaffe,
or air force, is dedicated with scores of
the famous Stuka dive-bombers ready to attack,
raining bombs ahead of the panzer spearhead .
You will take command of the best soldiers on
the
Ostfront,
from the highly manoeuvrable and
daring panzer crews to the grizzled hard-hitting
grenadier infantry . You'll find no other army as
well equipped and ready to defeat the enemy
as those you are about to meet . They await
your orders!
Rostov
CAUCASUS
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The following special rules are characteristic of German Iron Cross forces,
reflecting their own style of equipment, tactics, and approach to battle.
IRON CROSS
The German soldiers on the
Ostfront
(East Front) are experi-
enced and confident of success .
THIRD REICH
German soldiers have defeated all comers, no matter what the
odds, and conquered much of the world. They believe in them-
selves and are confident of victory, so take heavy casualties in
their stride knowing that success is certain.
Troops of the Third Reich have a better Last Stand rating .
STORMTROOPERS
Stormtrooper tactics learned during the First World War
emphasised the importance of initiative and decisive action.
This emphasis carried over to training and combat in the Second
World War.
A Unit may attempt a second Movement Order after suc-
ceeding in its first Movement Order . The second Movement
Order must be different from the first .
PANZERS
German tanks, as with all German engineering, are carefully
designed and make good use of technology .
HEAT
The German army was the first to experiment with High
Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) warheads in combat. When a
HEAT warhead explodes, it forms a jet of metal that can
punch through a tank’s armour. Since it doesn’t rely on veloc-
ity, it is equally effective at any range.
This enabled them to up-gun the Panzer III from the stand-
ard 5cm gun to surplus 7.5cm guns from the short-barrelled
Panzer IV, giving it a new lease of life.
A Team’s Armour rating is not increased by +1 if it is
more than 16”/40cm away when hit by HEAT weapons .
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