Shanderovka

**Shanderovka** is a scenario in *Panzer Corps 2*.

## Briefings

Oberst Stefan Wagner, reporting for duty.

Welcome back to the fight, General %playername%.

We are facing quite the crisis here on the Eastern Front, so we best get started immediately.

Since last we spoke, our position here on the Dnieper River has deteriorated considerably.

Soviet forces may have us encircled... but I'm afraid I don't actually know that for certain. Our communications have completely broken down. Caught in this blizzard, we are totally blind to even our immediate surroundings.

Which brings us to our mission: we have to know what is happening around Korsun, or what little strength we have left in our Panzer Corps will be directionless.

**Primary Objective: Make Contact with XI Corps.**

**Primary Objective: Make Contact with Kanev Defenders.**

**Primary Objective: Make Contact with Southern Flank Defenders.**

**Primary Objective: Oberst Wagner must Survive.**

What forces we have that are supplied and ready to fight are here, east of Korsun.

I have requisitioned a custom Command Tank for our use. It is the hull of a Panther, with the turret of a Panzer IV. It will keep us protected on the field, but I wouldn't try to engage the enemy directly with our new Command Tank: the main gun is inoperable. We had to remove it to fit all of our communications equipment inside the vehicle. That barrel is only there to intimidate any Russians from moving to engage us!

I've had to put most of our forces into reserve as fuel is desperately low, so this handful of forces is all we will have to work with for this mission.

Also, the blizzard that is currently raging will render our aircraft completely inoperable, so I insist we leave all our air assets in reserve.

In these blizzard conditions, the vision of our units will be severely impaired. I highly recommend a slow and cautious advance, with our swiftest recon units scouting the way. We cannot risk our Tiger tanks or other heavy equipment being ambushed by unseen enemies.

Our first stop should be to make contact with XI Corps Command. Last we knew, they were stationed here at Korsun.

We'll have to hope General Stemmerman has had better luck than us in keeping in contact with anyone outside of the Korsun Pocket.

We should also check up on the forces assigned to garrison Kanev. In the last set of orders we did receive, High Command has insisted the city be held. High Command wants it to serve as a base for launching a future offensive to force the Russians to cross back over the Dnieper, especially in the region of Kiev, and so we better confirm the state of the city.

In that last communication, we were also warned that a new threat was approaching our position from the south. We better check the condition of the forces protecting the southern flank, and make sure they are still holding on.

These forces may or may not be from XXXXII Corps, but if they aren't, we should also be on the look out for that missing Corps.

Thousands of our fellow soldiers are somewhere out there in this blizzard, we must find and save anyone we can for the campaign ahead.

To victory, for Germany!

### Debriefing

I have nothing but bad news to report, mein General.

After surveying the area and reconnecting with XI Corps Command, we passed all of our battlefield intelligence off to them... what is left of them.

General Stemmerman, commander of XI Corps, is dead. Killed by anti-tank fire.

Before he died, he was successful in reestablishing contact with forces outside the pocket.

Field Marshal Manstein is now aware of the details of our situation, and we expect to hear from him imminently on our next course of action.

There is another piece of bad news...

It's actually an intercept of enemy communications. A description of a battle, by a Soviet officer. It concerns our missing XXXXII Corps.

Brace yourself, it is not pleasant.

Written transcript of oral description of the hecatomb of Lysyanka:

"It was during that night, or the evening before, that the encircled Germans, having abandoned all hope of ever being rescued by Hube, decided to make a last desperate effort to break out...

Driven out of their warm huts they had to abandon Shanderovka. They flocked into the ravines near the village, and then took the desperate decision to break through early in the morning... So that morning they formed themselves into two marching columns of about 14,000 each...

It was about six o'clock in the morning. Our tanks and our cavalry suddenly appeared and rushed straight into the thick of the two columns. What happened then is hard to describe.

The Germans ran in all directions. And for the next four hours our tanked raced up and down the plain crushing them by the hundred. Our cavalry, competing with the tanks, chased them through the ravines where it was hard for tanks to pursue them.

Most of the time the tanks were not using their guns lest they hit their own cavalry. Hundreds and hundreds of cavalry were hacking at them with their sabres, and massacred the Fritzes as no one had ever been massacred by cavalry before.

There was no time to take prisoners. It was the kind of carnage that nothing could stop till it was all over. In a small area over 20,000 Germans were killed."

Major Kampov, Red Army Officer of the 1st Ukrainian Front.

Korsun, Ukraine. February 16th, 1944.

## Walkthrough

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## Locations

* Kanev

* Dnieper River

* Shanderovka

* Korsun

* Lysyanka

* Rosava River

* Ros River

* Gornyy Tikich River

* Horodysche

* Kanev

* Dnieper River

* Shanderovka

* Korsun

* Lysyanka

* Rosava River

* Ros River

* Gornyy Tikich River

* Horodysche

## Messages

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Our troops have reached Korsun, but there is no sign of either XI or XXXXII Corps. All we found left in the small city was a few motorcyle messengers. After speaking with them, they informed us that the Commander of XI Corps left Korsun after all communication to anyone outside the pocket was lost. He left to try and to restablish contact from another location, and if we want to catch up to him, we should head towards the northwest end of the pocket.

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Our troops have reached Shanderovka, but all we found was an empty supply depot. Not a single sign of XXXXII Corps. Our soldiers report that are a large amount of tracks in the snow that lead to the ravines to the southwest, but I have a very bad feeling about this. We should stick to our objectives and not go wandering off in this snow covered wasteland.

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** We have reestablished contact with the garrison left to hold Kanev, but the news is grim. Sometime after most of the troops remaining in the pocket were sent south to guard that flank, the skeletal force left behind to defend Kanev came under attack from the direction of Kiev.

They will continue to hold their ground, to prevent the pocket collapsing from the north, but there is little we can do for them now. We should move on and complete our objectives, so that their sacrifices will not be in vain.

**Objective to Make Contact with Kanev Defenders Completed!**

* ***Oberst Wagner:***  **Objective to Make Contact with XI Corps Headquarters Completed!**

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** We have reestablished contact with forces holding the southern flank of the pocket, but they are not XXXXII Corps troops. They say they have been under attack for the past two days, but so far have managed to hold their defensive line. Their casualties are mounting, and without reinforcement or resupply, their ability to resist further attacks dwindles by the hour.

As much as we might want to help them defend, it is more useful for us to report their situation to XI Corps Command. That is the only thing that has a chance to get these valiant men what they need need to continue the fight. We should move on and complete our other objectives.

**Objective to Make Contact with Southern Flank Defenders Completed!**

* Excuse the interruption, mein General, but I have been discussing our supply situation with our quartermasters, and we have a decision to make.

In our desperate situation, we are going to need every drop of fuel, scrap of food, and load of ammunition we can get our hands on. As we continue to move around within the pocket, we might want to grab anything that is not nailed down to take with us. This effort to keep our supply levels above critical carries no particular reward or penality (Sic), we are just making sure we have enough to survive the campaigns ahead.

If you think we are in need of an emergency resupply, we can begin clearing out all friendly depots immediately. If you think our supply situation is acceptable as is, we can just proceed without pillaging our stores.

Would you like to reset your prestige to 6600?

* You choose to reorganize your supply train. You now have exactly 6600 prestige.

* You decline to reorganize your supply situation. Your prestige amount is unaffected.

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Our troops have reached Korsun, but there is no sign of either XI or XXXXII Corps. All we found left in the small city was a few motorcyle messengers. After speaking with them, they informed us that the Commander of XI Corps left Korsun after all communication to anyone outside the pocket was lost. He left to try and to restablish contact from another location, and if we want to catch up to him, we should head towards the northwest end of the pocket.

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Our troops have reached Shanderovka, but all we found was an empty supply depot. Not a single sign of XXXXII Corps. Our soldiers report that are a large amount of tracks in the snow that lead to the ravines to the southwest, but I have a very bad feeling about this. We should stick to our objectives and not go wandering off in this snow covered wasteland.

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** We have reestablished contact with the garrison left to hold Kanev, but the news is grim. Sometime after most of the troops remaining in the pocket were sent south to guard that flank, the skeletal force left behind to defend Kanev came under attack from the direction of Kiev.

They will continue to hold their ground, to prevent the pocket collapsing from the north, but there is little we can do for them now. We should move on and complete our objectives, so that their sacrifices will not be in vain.

**Objective to Make Contact with Kanev Defenders Completed!**

* ***Oberst Wagner:***  **Objective to Make Contact with XI Corps Headquarters Completed!**

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** We have reestablished contact with forces holding the southern flank of the pocket, but they are not XXXXII Corps troops. They say they have been under attack for the past two days, but so far have managed to hold their defensive line. Their casualties are mounting, and without reinforcement or resupply, their ability to resist further attacks dwindles by the hour.

As much as we might want to help them defend, it is more useful for us to report their situation to XI Corps Command. That is the only thing that has a chance to get these valiant men what they need need to continue the fight. We should move on and complete our other objectives.

**Objective to Make Contact with Southern Flank Defenders Completed!**

* Excuse the interruption, mein General, but I have been discussing our supply situation with our quartermasters, and we have a decision to make.

In our desperate situation, we are going to need every drop of fuel, scrap of food, and load of ammunition we can get our hands on. As we continue to move around within the pocket, we might want to grab anything that is not nailed down to take with us. This effort to keep our supply levels above critical carries no particular reward or penality (Sic), we are just making sure we have enough to survive the campaigns ahead.

If you think we are in need of an emergency resupply, we can begin clearing out all friendly depots immediately. If you think our supply situation is acceptable as is, we can just proceed without pillaging our stores.

Would you like to reset your prestige to 6600?

* You choose to reorganize your supply train. You now have exactly 6600 prestige.

* You decline to reorganize your supply situation. Your prestige amount is unaffected.

## Notes

* On turn 7, players will be given to option to reset their prestige to 6600.
* Notable allied units:
	+ Oberst Wagner, a Level 5 Panther IVH with Stefan Wagner, a hero with the Leadership, No Split, Resilient, Artillery Support, and Survivor traits.
* Notable allied formations:
	+ Kanev Defenders
	+ Southern Defenders
	+ XI Corps
	+ XXXXII Corps
* Notable enemy units:
	+ 21st and 22nd SU Cavalry 43, which are Level 4 and have 40 Strength points and heroes with the Consolidator and No Surrender traits.
	+ 33th IS-1, which is Level 4 and has 40 Strength points and a hero with the Consolidator and No Surrender traits.
	+ 34th IS-1, which is Level 3 and has 12 Strength points and a hero with the Tank Killer and Double Attack traits.
	+ 42nd and 43rd T-34/43, which are Level 4 and have 40 Strength points and heroes with the Consolidator and No Surrender traits.
	+ 59th SU-152, which is Level 4 and has 40 Strength points and a hero with the Consolidator and No Surrender traits.
	+ 68th SU-85, which is Level 3 and has 12 Strength points and a hero with the Low Profile and No Retaliation traits.