The Battle of Kursk - Frame 1
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The Battle of Kursk Frame 1
Artist Credit to Nicholas Trudgian World Renowned Military Aviation Artist.
History
The Battle of Kursk (or 'Kursk Campaign' , July 4, 1943 – August 23, 1943), was called Operation Zitadelle by the German Army, or Operation Citadel in English, was a significant (deliberate) defensive battle strategy on the Soviets' part on the Eastern Front Theater during World War II. Having good intelligence on Hitler's intentions, the Soviets established and managed to conceal elaborate layered defense works, mine fields, and stage and disguise large reserve forces poised for a tactical and strategic counter-attack end game typical of defensive battle plans. Overall, the campaign, which included the famous the sub-battle at and for Prokhorovka, remains the largest armored engagement of all time, and included the most costly single day of
aerial warfare in history.
Though the Germans planned and initiated an offensive strike, the well planned Soviet defense not only managed to frustrate their ambitions but also launched a successful counter-offensive and exhausted the German abilities in the theatre thereby seizing the initiative for the remainder of the war. In that sense it may be seen as phase II of the turning point in the front that began with the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad, which aftermath set the table by establishing the 'Kursk Salient’, the reduction of which was the objective of the German armies entering July. The subsequent counter attacks retook Oryol (August 5), Belgorod (August 5) and Kharkov (August 23), pushing back the Germans across a broad front, the first successful major Soviet Summer offensive of the War.
Kursk further demonstrated that the conflict in the East contained the largest scale of warfare in history, in terms of manpower involved. So well designed was the Soviet defensive planning, that when entering the archetypical counterattack phase, the Soviets were able to attack along four separate axes of advance, and execute a planned stop at a phase line, thus avoiding the
pitfalls of over-extending during the counter attack and earning this battle's deserved place as a model campaign in war college curricula.
Battle Elements and Event Schedule
• Operation Zitadelle
• Prokhorovka
• Kursk Salient
Each frame starts at 8pm in the UK, 9pm in France/Germany, 10pm in Finland/Estonia and 3pm EST. The planned length of a single frame is 2 hours.
This is an UNLIMITED life event in Aircraft and Armored vehicles.
The Battle of Kursk on Youtube
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 1/5
http://youtu.be/tIeDY2H1eXk
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 2/5
http://youtu.be/c_TNJKtniTw
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 3/5
http://youtu.be/T7OQ6mdcyGQ
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 4/5
http://youtu.be/s_MpxM-ZrG0
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 5/5
http://youtu.be/HMkqJVY0vyw
Frame 1
Operation Zitadelle
The Germans' goal during Citadel was to pinch off a large salient in the Eastern Front that extended 70 miles toward the west. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Army Group Center would attack from the north flank of the bulge, with Colonel General Walther Model's Ninth Army leading the effort, General Hans Zorn's XLVI Panzer Corps on the right flank and Maj. Gen. Josef
Harpe's XLI Panzer Corps on the left. General Joachim Lemelsen's XLVII Panzer Corps planned to drive toward Kursk and meet up with Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Army Group South, Col. Gen. Hermann Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army and the Kempf Army, commanded by General Werner Kempf.
Opposing the German forces were the Soviet Central Front, led by General Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, and the Voronezh Front, led by General Nikolai F. Vatutin. The Central Front, with the right wing strengthened by Lt. Gen. Nikolai P. Pukhov's Thirteenth Army and Lt. Gen. I.V. Galinin's Seventeenth Army, was to defend the northern sector. To the south, the Voronezh Front faced the German Army Group South with three armies and two in reserve. The Sixth Guards Army, led by Lt. Gen. Mikhail N. Chistyakov, and the Seventh Guards Army, led by Lt. Gen. M. S. Shumilov, held the center and left wing. East of Kursk, Col. Gen. Ivan S. Konev's Steppe Military District (renamed Steppe Front on July 10, 1943) was to hold German breakthroughs, then mount the counteroffensive.
Order of Battle
The Battle of Kursk will be a capture the flag event, pitting the best base capture teams and best base defense teams against one another. This event will involve targeted release of field assets during the forward progress of the two hour event.
Air Assets:
For the first hour of play, all aircraft will be available for use. Immediately following the first hour of play, only ground attack aircraft will be available in each side hangers. If either side’s aircraft hangers are destroyed they will remain down for the remainder of the frame. Each player will have unlimited lives in any available aircraft. Once the first hour of play has expired the following
are the only aircraft that will be available;
Allies = IL2 Sturmovick
AXIS = JU87 Stuka
Aircraft may be used to;
•Bomb GVs
•Attack all structures
•Fly CAP
•Dogfight
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Any player still in their original aircraft after the first hour of play may remain in that aircraft until they disco, crash, loss that life or any other event that would cause them to return to the hanger. Only the aircraft above will be available in hangers that are not destroyed.
Armored Assets:
Armored asset will have a staggered start. Only the Tiger I will be turned off at its appointed time until the end of frame. In other words not all vehicles will roll at Go Go Go time. Certain vehicles will be launched at specific spawn points and intervals that will be on display in the event write up and the MOTD. Side COs will be able to derive their mission orders from these
two sources of information regarding the event. If a vehicle hanger is destroyed it will remain down for 10 minutes.
The Frame Objective:
The objective to be captured, field A138, can be captured and recaptured repeatedly by both sides over the length of the frame.
Vehicles may be used to;
•Attack other GVs
•Attack aircraft
•Destroy buildings
•Resupply other GVs
•Camp Spawn points
•Capture fields
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Battle Schedule (Enabled or Disabled Aircraft and Vehicle)
3:00pm – 3:30pm EST
Allies:
All Aircraft (P-39Q, Yak-9T, LA-5FN, IL2, B-25C)
M3
M16
T-34/76
AXIS:
All Aircraft (BF109G-2, BF109G-6, FW190A-5, JU87G, JU88A-4)
sd.kfz 251
Ostwind
Panzer IV F
Panzer IV H
3:30pm – 4:00pm EST
Allies:
All Aircraft (P-39Q, Yak-9T, LA-5FN, IL2, B-25C)
T-34/85
AXIS:
All Aircraft (BF109G-2, BF109G-6, FW190A-5, JU87G, JU88A-4)
Tiger I
4:00pm – 4:30pm EST
Allies:
IL2 Sturmovick
AXIS:
JU87 Stuka
Tiger I (***Will be turned off at this time***)
4:30pm – 5:00pm EST
Allies:
M4 Sherman Firefly
AXIS:
Panther Ausf. G
Battle Orders
Allies: Defend A138 from capture the field…
AXIS: Capture A138 and hold…
Victory Conditions:
*The final condition of field A138 will announce the winner at the close of the frame.
Frame 1 - Arena Setting:
1. Terrain – Blacksea
2. Icon Range - short
3. Wind – 10 kts W
4. Time – Start time 1400
5. Fighter and Bomber Warning Range - 36,960 about 7 miles
6. Enemy Collisions - On
7. External view for bombers (F3) - On
8. Visibility - 12
9. Friendly Collisions - Off
10. Fuel – 1.5
11. Ack - .3
12. Kill Shooter - off
13. Tower Range – 36,960 for display to match the above setting.
14. Radar – On
Designer Notes:
SEC Event Designer and Host
Redtail7
The Battle of Kursk Frame 1
Artist Credit to Nicholas Trudgian World Renowned Military Aviation Artist.
History
The Battle of Kursk (or 'Kursk Campaign' , July 4, 1943 – August 23, 1943), was called Operation Zitadelle by the German Army, or Operation Citadel in English, was a significant (deliberate) defensive battle strategy on the Soviets' part on the Eastern Front Theater during World War II. Having good intelligence on Hitler's intentions, the Soviets established and managed to conceal elaborate layered defense works, mine fields, and stage and disguise large reserve forces poised for a tactical and strategic counter-attack end game typical of defensive battle plans. Overall, the campaign, which included the famous the sub-battle at and for Prokhorovka, remains the largest armored engagement of all time, and included the most costly single day of
aerial warfare in history.
Though the Germans planned and initiated an offensive strike, the well planned Soviet defense not only managed to frustrate their ambitions but also launched a successful counter-offensive and exhausted the German abilities in the theatre thereby seizing the initiative for the remainder of the war. In that sense it may be seen as phase II of the turning point in the front that began with the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad, which aftermath set the table by establishing the 'Kursk Salient’, the reduction of which was the objective of the German armies entering July. The subsequent counter attacks retook Oryol (August 5), Belgorod (August 5) and Kharkov (August 23), pushing back the Germans across a broad front, the first successful major Soviet Summer offensive of the War.
Kursk further demonstrated that the conflict in the East contained the largest scale of warfare in history, in terms of manpower involved. So well designed was the Soviet defensive planning, that when entering the archetypical counterattack phase, the Soviets were able to attack along four separate axes of advance, and execute a planned stop at a phase line, thus avoiding the
pitfalls of over-extending during the counter attack and earning this battle's deserved place as a model campaign in war college curricula.
Battle Elements and Event Schedule
• Operation Zitadelle
• Prokhorovka
• Kursk Salient
Each frame starts at 8pm in the UK, 9pm in France/Germany, 10pm in Finland/Estonia and 3pm EST. The planned length of a single frame is 2 hours.
This is an UNLIMITED life event in Aircraft and Armored vehicles.
The Battle of Kursk on Youtube
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 1/5
http://youtu.be/tIeDY2H1eXk
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 2/5
http://youtu.be/c_TNJKtniTw
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 3/5
http://youtu.be/T7OQ6mdcyGQ
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 4/5
http://youtu.be/s_MpxM-ZrG0
Greatest Tank Battles - Battle of Kursk 5/5
http://youtu.be/HMkqJVY0vyw
Frame 1
Operation Zitadelle
The Germans' goal during Citadel was to pinch off a large salient in the Eastern Front that extended 70 miles toward the west. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Army Group Center would attack from the north flank of the bulge, with Colonel General Walther Model's Ninth Army leading the effort, General Hans Zorn's XLVI Panzer Corps on the right flank and Maj. Gen. Josef
Harpe's XLI Panzer Corps on the left. General Joachim Lemelsen's XLVII Panzer Corps planned to drive toward Kursk and meet up with Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Army Group South, Col. Gen. Hermann Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army and the Kempf Army, commanded by General Werner Kempf.
Opposing the German forces were the Soviet Central Front, led by General Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, and the Voronezh Front, led by General Nikolai F. Vatutin. The Central Front, with the right wing strengthened by Lt. Gen. Nikolai P. Pukhov's Thirteenth Army and Lt. Gen. I.V. Galinin's Seventeenth Army, was to defend the northern sector. To the south, the Voronezh Front faced the German Army Group South with three armies and two in reserve. The Sixth Guards Army, led by Lt. Gen. Mikhail N. Chistyakov, and the Seventh Guards Army, led by Lt. Gen. M. S. Shumilov, held the center and left wing. East of Kursk, Col. Gen. Ivan S. Konev's Steppe Military District (renamed Steppe Front on July 10, 1943) was to hold German breakthroughs, then mount the counteroffensive.
Order of Battle
The Battle of Kursk will be a capture the flag event, pitting the best base capture teams and best base defense teams against one another. This event will involve targeted release of field assets during the forward progress of the two hour event.
Air Assets:
For the first hour of play, all aircraft will be available for use. Immediately following the first hour of play, only ground attack aircraft will be available in each side hangers. If either side’s aircraft hangers are destroyed they will remain down for the remainder of the frame. Each player will have unlimited lives in any available aircraft. Once the first hour of play has expired the following
are the only aircraft that will be available;
Allies = IL2 Sturmovick
AXIS = JU87 Stuka
Aircraft may be used to;
•Bomb GVs
•Attack all structures
•Fly CAP
•Dogfight
 Â
Any player still in their original aircraft after the first hour of play may remain in that aircraft until they disco, crash, loss that life or any other event that would cause them to return to the hanger. Only the aircraft above will be available in hangers that are not destroyed.
Armored Assets:
Armored asset will have a staggered start. Only the Tiger I will be turned off at its appointed time until the end of frame. In other words not all vehicles will roll at Go Go Go time. Certain vehicles will be launched at specific spawn points and intervals that will be on display in the event write up and the MOTD. Side COs will be able to derive their mission orders from these
two sources of information regarding the event. If a vehicle hanger is destroyed it will remain down for 10 minutes.
The Frame Objective:
The objective to be captured, field A138, can be captured and recaptured repeatedly by both sides over the length of the frame.
Vehicles may be used to;
•Attack other GVs
•Attack aircraft
•Destroy buildings
•Resupply other GVs
•Camp Spawn points
•Capture fields
 Â
Battle Schedule (Enabled or Disabled Aircraft and Vehicle)
3:00pm – 3:30pm EST
Allies:
All Aircraft (P-39Q, Yak-9T, LA-5FN, IL2, B-25C)
M3
M16
T-34/76
AXIS:
All Aircraft (BF109G-2, BF109G-6, FW190A-5, JU87G, JU88A-4)
sd.kfz 251
Ostwind
Panzer IV F
Panzer IV H
3:30pm – 4:00pm EST
Allies:
All Aircraft (P-39Q, Yak-9T, LA-5FN, IL2, B-25C)
T-34/85
AXIS:
All Aircraft (BF109G-2, BF109G-6, FW190A-5, JU87G, JU88A-4)
Tiger I
4:00pm – 4:30pm EST
Allies:
IL2 Sturmovick
AXIS:
JU87 Stuka
Tiger I (***Will be turned off at this time***)
4:30pm – 5:00pm EST
Allies:
M4 Sherman Firefly
AXIS:
Panther Ausf. G
Battle Orders
Allies: Defend A138 from capture the field…
AXIS: Capture A138 and hold…
Victory Conditions:
*The final condition of field A138 will announce the winner at the close of the frame.
Frame 1 - Arena Setting:
1. Terrain – Blacksea
2. Icon Range - short
3. Wind – 10 kts W
4. Time – Start time 1400
5. Fighter and Bomber Warning Range - 36,960 about 7 miles
6. Enemy Collisions - On
7. External view for bombers (F3) - On
8. Visibility - 12
9. Friendly Collisions - Off
10. Fuel – 1.5
11. Ack - .3
12. Kill Shooter - off
13. Tower Range – 36,960 for display to match the above setting.
14. Radar – On
Designer Notes:
SEC Event Designer and Host
Redtail7