Taman Peninsula

**Taman Peninsula** is a scenario in *Panzer Corps 2*.

## Briefings

Mein General, our air fleet has completed deployment to the Kuban bridgehead, and from the looks of it, our aid is desperately needed.

The Soviets have almost entirely cut off the Crimean Peninsula, leaving no choice but to evacuate our forces in the Caucasus across the Kerch Strait.

**Primary Objective: Escort 12 German Army Units to Kerch Evac Zone.**

**Bonus Objective: Escort 4 Romanian Units to Kerch Evac Zone before the 17th Army Evac is complete.**

Before we commence with the evacuation, there are several problems we must be mindful of.

Soviet advance forces have already secured positions both north...

And south...

Of our main debarkation points.

From those positions, the Soviets will undoubtedly attack our evacuation transports as they attempt to cross the Kerch Strait, so be sure to provide solid air cover over the transports during their voyage.

There is an extreme shortage of transport ships available, meaning we can only ferry a few units at a time.

Additionally, our Romanian allies are trapped here.

I doubt they will make it to the debarkation point without swift assistance.

So in addition to fighter protection, we will definitely need at least a few ground attack aircraft to deal with any Soviet ground forces that attempt to interfere with the evacuation.

There seems to be no Soviet ships in the immediate vicinity though, so do not worry about deploying bombers over the Kerch Strait itself.

To victory, for Germany!

### Debriefing

**Historically, the Axis evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead was necessitated by rapid Soviet advances that threatened to capture the Isthmus of Perekop; which would cut off the Axis held Crimean Peninsula and the last Axis foothold in the Caucasus.**

**But instead of a full retreat all the way across the Black Sea, the German 17th Army was redeployed across the Kerch Strait to continue to hold the Crimean Peninsula.**

**The German reasoning for attempting to maintain control of the Crimean Peninsula was the same that it had been when they initially captured Sevastopol in 1942: Germany wanted to prevent Russian aircraft from having a base of operations to attack Romanian oilfields.**

**And so the German 17th Army would attempt to dig in and defend the Crimean Peninsula with their only source of supply being over the sea.**

## Walkthrough

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## Locations

* Novorossiysk

* Kuban River

* Khan'kov

* Sea of Azov

* Black Sea

* Taman

* Volna

* Il'ich

* Kerch

* Temryuk

* Sennoi

* Kerch Evac Zone

* Novorossiysk

* Kuban River

* Khan'kov

* Sea of Azov

* Black Sea

* Taman

* Volna

* Il'ich

* Kerch

* Temryuk

* Sennoi

* Kerch Evac Zone

## Messages

* 17th Army Ground Unit successfully reached Evacuation Zone!

Total evacuated Germans is now %d.

* Romanian Ground Unit successfully reached Evacuation Zone!

Total evacuated Romanians is now %d.

* Bonus Objective to Escort 4 Romanian Units to Kerch Evac Zone before the 17th Army completed.
Earned Commendation Points: 4.
Total Commendation Points: %d.

* 17th Army Ground Unit successfully reached Evacuation Zone!

Total evacuated Germans is now %d.

* Romanian Ground Unit successfully reached Evacuation Zone!

Total evacuated Romanians is now %d.

* Bonus Objective to Escort 4 Romanian Units to Kerch Evac Zone before the 17th Army completed.
Earned Commendation Points: 4.
Total Commendation Points: %d.

## Notes

* Moving four Romanian units to the Evac Zone will award 4 Commendation Points.
* Notable allied formations:
	+ 17th Army
* Notable enemy units
	+ Chief Political Administrator Brezhnev, a Guards unit that is Level 5 and has 25 Strength points.
* Enemy reinforcements will arrive in the north or the south on turns 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, and 27.