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M4 Jess Housley -> RED HOT SCENARIO (1/16/2001 6:45:00 PM)
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_____THE SCHOOLHOUSE*
> ___PONYRI, JULY 9, 1943
> ____Germany vs Soviet Union*
> _______German Advance*
> _________Turns: 15*
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> ____Designed by M4 Jess Housley**
> _____jlh116@juno.com**
>
> Note: This scenario is a gift to Wild Bills Raiders as a special thanks
> for allowing me to join such a great team ! It will only be posted here
> for direct e-mail. Please e-mail me for a copy.
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> Play as either side.Turn Command & Control off.**
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> Dawn, inside PONYRI, its about to get ugly:**
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> It was a nondescript, strung-out little village but it was situated in
> the KURSK salient and was destined to become the scene of the most
> intense street fighting since STALINGRAD. **
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> The School, the Water-tower, the Tractor Station, the Railway Embankment,
> and the Train Station become fiercely contested landmarks whose price in
> blood was paid and repaid dozens of times in that fateful week. But now,
> three days after gaining their initial foothold, the surrounding hills
> 239.8 and 253.5 that had fallen to German assaults, the monstrous
> Ferdinand assault guns rumbled into the village streets.**
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> Many of the Ferdinands were soon immobilized by Anti-Tank guns firing at
> their tracks and then dispatched by "anti-tank squads" with explosive
> charges and petrol bombs. Nevertheless, the German attack gained 500
> costly yards only to prompt an immediate counterattack. **
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> So intense was the fighting that the opposing Battalion commanders both
> fell within seconds at the forefront of thier respective forces while
> exhorting thier men to take or retake the SCHOOLHOUSE.**
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> After many assaults the Germans held the SCHOOLHOUSE but could not take
> the all-important CROSSROADS.**
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> After over a dozen such attacks, the Germans were forced to up the ante
> and commit their last reserves in the form of the 10th Panzer-Grenadier
> Division, nonetheless, PONYRI would remain the target of repeated Soviet
> counterattacks including massed armor and even a saber-drawn cavalry
> charge.**
>
> M4 Jess Housley jlh116@juno.com
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