Rostov 1943

**Rostov 1943** is a scenario in *Panzer Corps 2*.

## Briefings

Forgive my haste, Herr General, but there is little time for talk. Action is the order of the day.

Army Group South faces one final crisis before it can exploit the opportunities that have been fought so hard for.

The failure of our enemy at Kursk, and then Kharkov, and then Stalino, has forced him further south with each new attack.

And now, in a final attempt to break our line, the enemy skirts the banks of the Sea of Azov. This will be his undoing.

**Primary Objective: Capture all Victory Hexes.**

**Primary Objective: Destroy ALL Enemy Units.**

Army Group South has been purposely understrengthed in this region..

Bait?

*Manstein nods in affirmation.*

It has created a desperate success that a desperate adversary is precisely looking for, and I was more than willing to oblige.

By letting the Soviets advance as far as they have, a sudden attack here towards Rostov can cut their supply...

And trap their armies against the sea.

To support this effort, arrangements have been made for elements of Army Detachment Kempf to leapfrog ahead of your task force.

Several river crossings have already been destroyed to limit the mobility of your prey.

And a detachment of Fallschirmjagers are holding the key bridges at Bataysk.

Mein General, we had better bring our own bridge engineers, to hasten our own river crossings. It is unlikely the small advance forces can hold out for long on their own.

And you will need them, if you are to fully trap such a large Soviet battlegroup.

I also advise we deploy a small number of our units as reinforcements to help hold the Mius River. We want to make sure our enemies are stonewalled here for as long as possible.

While we stretch our encirclement from here.

To here...

And finally to Rostov, to fully close the trap.

To victory, for Germany!

### Debriefing

**In this alternate history, Manstein's daring plan to trap Soviet reinforcements against the Sea of Azov resulted in an encirclement comparable to the mass surrenders that took place during Barbarossa's largest successes in 1941.**

**Thousands of Soviet fighting vehicles and hundreds of thousands of troops were captured near Rostov, totally derailing Soviet plans to continue their advance to the Dnieper River and Kiev.**

**Between Soviet losses at Kursk and Rostov, a quarter of the Red Army's total man power and half of its tanks would be lost.**

**While devastating, and once again giving Germany the upper hand on the Eastern Front, the magnitude of these losses merely put the Soviets back on the defensive footing, far from being a war ending defeat.**

## Walkthrough

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## Locations

* Sea of Azov

* Azov

* Rostov

* Bataysk

* Don River

* Don River Delta

* Petrovka

* Tanais

* Taganrog

* Pokrovskoe

* Anastasievka

* Mius River

* To Stalino

* Coal Mine

* Bataysk Bridge

* Sea of Azov

* Azov

* Rostov

* Bataysk

* Don River

* Don River Delta

* Petrovka

* Tanais

* Taganrog

* Pokrovskoe

* Anastasievka

* Mius River

* To Stalino

* Coal Mine

* Bataysk Bridge

## Messages

* Mein General, there is an update regarding the situation in Italy, and I am afraid to say it is not good news. While it has not yet come to pass, German Intelligence knows that the general surrender of the Italians is probably weeks, if not days, away.

In preparation for this, German forces are being earmarked to move in and disarm any remaining Italian forces. Although the vast majority of the Italians have been withdrawn from the Eastern Front since February, I have been informed there are caches of Italian equipment that still linger. With your influence, we could move in and secure any and all Italian equipment left. By my reckoning, there are good amounts of armored cars, tanks, and self-propelled artillery we could commandeer.

You have %d Commendation Points.

Would you like to use 6 Commendation Point take control of a very large amount of Italian combat vehicles?

* You choose to accept the offer. You now have %d Commendation Points.

* You choose to reject the offer. You still have %d Commendation Points

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Mein General, some of our forces have seized control of an enemy heavy tank depot! We've commandeered a handful of vehicles and you can access them as captured equipment.

* Mein General, there is an update regarding the situation in Italy, and I am afraid to say it is not good news. While it has not yet come to pass, German Intelligence knows that the general surrender of the Italians is probably weeks, if not days, away.

In preparation for this, German forces are being earmarked to move in and disarm any remaining Italian forces. Although the vast majority of the Italians have been withdrawn from the Eastern Front since February, I have been informed there are caches of Italian equipment that still linger. With your influence, we could move in and secure any and all Italian equipment left. By my reckoning, there are good amounts of armored cars, tanks, and self-propelled artillery we could commandeer.

You have %d Commendation Points.

Would you like to use 6 Commendation Point take control of a very large amount of Italian combat vehicles?

* You choose to accept the offer. You now have %d Commendation Points.

* You choose to reject the offer. You still have %d Commendation Points

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Mein General, some of our forces have seized control of an enemy heavy tank depot! We've commandeered a handful of vehicles and you can access them as captured equipment.

## Notes

* If players have at least 6 Commendation Points at the start of the scenario, they will be given the option to exchange 6 Commendation Points for 41 Strength points worth of Captured L6/40 Lf Tanks, 35 Strength points worth of Captured M15/42 Tanks, 29 Strength points worth of Captured P26/40 Tanks, 52 Strength points worth of Captured AB 43 Recons, 35 Strength points worth of Captured Autocannone 90/53 Anti-tanks, and 27 Strength points worth of Captured 20/70 quadruplo Anti-airs.
* Capturing Tanais will grant players 19 Strength points worth of Captured KV-85 Tanks and 27 Strength points worth of Captured IS-1 Tanks.