Novorossiysk

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

## Briefings

With our previous successes stablizing (Sic) the front, High Command has determined now is the best time to reach for a new strategic objective.

To this end, we have now been deployed to strike deeply into the vast Caucasus region.

Our ultimate goal will be to secure Russian oil fields to fuel our forces for campaigns to come, but that goal is quite a long ways off.

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

**Bonus Objective: Prevent Soviet Sabotage of Oil Facilities.**

The terrain is as vast as it is nearly featureless, so I highly recommend we deploy a very mobile force to advance quickly.

This is especially important, because we have good intelligence of a situation brewing around this location.

Our logistical situation has always been severely stretched by the huge distances we've needed to advance against the Soviets.

And the enemy's scorched earth policies have only made this worse.

If we reach Khan'kov quickly enough, we may be able to prevent the Soviets from sabotaging what we have identified as a major oil storage facility.

But while speed is necessary for this secondary objective, our main mission is to fully secure the region.

After crossing the Kuban River, we'll reach the edge of the Caucasus Mountains.

The port of Novorossiysk, nestled amongst the hills, could be a very difficult target needing a lot of close combat engagements to clear out.

We have a lot of ground to cover, so we had better get started!

To victory, for Germany!

### Debriefing

**Historically, the strategic goal of the German Summer Offensive of 1942 was to secure natural resources, especially oil, to continue to fuel the German war machine. Additionally, it was hoped that Soviet defenses would be lighter in this region, as they might be expecting any renewed German offensive to make another attempt to take Moscow.**

**As Soviet forces had been exhausted in a series of failed offensives, and with additional reserves indeed defending the Moscow front in continued fighting around Rzhev, the initial German advance through the Caucasus managed to make impressive gains.**

**In the month from July to August, German forces advanced over a hundred miles into the Caucasus from their starting point at Rostov.**

**But some of their objectives would extract a very bloody price to capture. The port of Novorossiysk required three weeks of fighting to fully secure.**

## Walkthrough

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## Locations

* Novorossiysk

* Krasnodar

* Kuban River

* Timashevsk

* Khan'kov

* Belikov

* Ivanovskaya

* Sea of Azov

* Black Sea

* Novorossiysk

* Krasnodar

* Kuban River

* Timashevsk

* Khan'kov

* Belikov

* Ivanovskaya

* Sea of Azov

* Black Sea

## Messages

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Mein General, some of our forces have captured a number of Soviet fighters and heavy fighters on the ground and intact. We've commandeered them all and you can access them as captured equipment.

* Bonus Objective to Prevent Soviet Sabotage of Oil Facilities completed.
Earned Commendation Points: 2.
Total Commendation Points: %d.

* ***Oberst Wagner:*** Mein General, some of our forces have captured a number of Soviet fighters and heavy fighters on the ground and intact. We've commandeered them all and you can access them as captured equipment.

* Bonus Objective to Prevent Soviet Sabotage of Oil Facilities completed.
Earned Commendation Points: 2.
Total Commendation Points: %d.

## Notes

* Ensuring the survival of all three Pumping Stations will award 2 Commendation Points.
* Capturing the airfield at (24,50) will grant players 34 Strength points worth of Captured MiG-3 Fighters, 11 Strength points worth of Captured Lavochkin La-5 Fighters, and 28 Strength points worth of Captured Pe-3 Fighters.
* Notable enemy units:
	+ Polisi, a BA-64 that is Level 1 and has 20 Strength points.