AC
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Thanks to all for your replies. Now here's the reason of my question: as some of you may remember, two weeks ago I made a short post regarding the aniversary of the battle of Nikolajewka. I am now planning to do at least a map for this battle, and maybe also a scenario - although I've never made on so far.
But right at the beginning, there's the first problem, which I'll try to explain shortly:
From the maps and info I have, Nikolajewka was a village laid out more or less on a north-north-east - south-south-west axis, behind a railway line on an embankment approximately 2 meters high. The village appears to be 4 km long. In front of the railwayline, to the east, there was a slightly ascending slope, from which the Alpini troops attacked. I estimate this slope to be at about 1 to 1,5 km wide, in a west-east direction.
Now, considering that a hex measures 50 meters, the village would spread for 80 hexes, and the slope would have from 20 to 30 hexes.
The Italians attacked the village at 10 am on January 26th, 1943, at first with the following troops:
- left wing: Battaglione "Verona", 6th Alpini Regiment, reduced to appr. 300 men
- center: 255th Company, Battaglione "Valchiese", 6th Alpini Regiment, maybe 100 men
- right wing: Battaglione "Vestone", 6th Alpini Regiment, the best i nshape of the three, maybe 500 men, supported by 3 german Sturmgeschuetze (Stug 40F according to some fotographs I have)
- 32nd battery del "Gruppo Bergamo".
Hours later, at 2 pm they were joined by parts of the 5th Alpini Regiment.
During the whole battle thousands of disbanded soldiers occupied the heights in front of Nikolajewka, waiting for the outcome of the fight.
Now, considering the above, my problem is: how can I mix the three parameters map, units and duration of the battle in order to have a challenging scenario. For example, if I'd make a map with the real proportions of the village and the slope, an attacking Alpini squad would have to travel for almost 10 turns only to get near the railway, not considering the enemy's reaction; or, again, considering that the attackers of the first wave are about 1000 men, I'd come out with a scenario of al least 100 squads only for the attacking infantry.
So it seems that first of all reducing the real proportions of the map seems to be a must. But then, have I to reduce the number of attackers and defenders accordingly, or not? And what about the lenght of the scenario?
A number of questions for some of which maybe some of you scenario-designing-professionals have a clue.
I'll be grateful for any hint or advice.
AC
PS: Someone out there who knows the scale of the elevation levels, too?
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"Tridentina, avanti!" General L. Reverberi leading his Alpini troops in the decisive assault on Soviet-held Nikolajewka, 26th January 1943
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