Valeriy Nikolaevich Zamulin, a PhD candidate, is a leading Russian scholar of the Battle of Kursk. Thus, the delay in launching Citadel was not the fatal German error, and it would have failed even if launched earlier. The author demonstrates that the Red Army was able quickly to replenish its forces and also create a large mobile reserve, the Steppe Front. Zamulin next examines the Soviet side, and discusses the planning for the summer campaign, including the decision to adopt a pre-meditated defense of the Kursk salient and to create a multi-echeloned system of defense (though incomplete in depth). As he shows through data, the Germans struggled to replenish Army Group South and Model's Ninth Army in the north, and the latter was hampered almost right up to the launching of Operation Citadel by the need to conduct a major anti-partisan operation in woods and thickets in the German rear with panzer and infantry divisions earmarked for Citadel. Zamulin then looks at the German plans for the summer of 1943 and the process of rebuilding its forces. However, Hitler was determined to regain the initiative in the East, though some German commanders expressed concerns. Analyzing first the German side, the author demonstrates that the Germans were in a woeful condition, especially with respect to the number of serviceable armored vehicles and the lack of infantry. The book includes a new Battle Rating counter sets to better recreate the character of the Pacific War, including such events as dangerous Japanese booby-traps and their occasional last desperate Banzai! charges.In this first volume of a projected two-volume set, Zamulin takes a close look at the condition of the German and Soviet forces following the winter campaign. Recreating the character of the jungle war, with its tropical conditions, reliance on infantry warfare against a ferocious Japanese foe low on men, equipment and supplies, but with an almost unbreakable will to fight. New rules to adapt the core Battlegroup rules to the battlefields of the late Pacific War. Plastic Soldier Company add-to-cart Battlegroup Kursk A4 United States The Second World War 1939 - 1945 Paper & Card 12+ Softcover English The book includes a new Battle Rating counter sets to better recreate the character of the Pacific War, including such events as dangerous Japanese booby-traps and their occasional last desperate Banzai! charges. Also, British and Commonwealth Infantry Divisions for 14th Army in Burma, along with alterations for the Australian divisions on Bougainville and Borneo. This book covers the bitter fighting from Tarawa to Okinawa, until Japan's final surrender.įive army lists designed to be played with the equipment and character of the principal combatants in the Pacific Theatre: US Marine Corps divisions in their specialised amphibious assault role, alongside US Infantry Divisions to face Japanese Infantry Divisions and their smaller 'oceanised' divisions used to garrison distant Pacific islands. From the Marianas Islands, to the Philippines and with the British 14th Army in Burma, by 1944 the ferocity of the Pacific War had reached its zenith.Ī complete overview of the late Pacific Theatre, from the Gilbert Islands campaign through many battles on and around New Guinea, Bougainville and the Marshall Islands to the invasion of the Philippines and the dramatic battles for Tinian, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, with the US Marine Corps and Army forcing their way ashore in successive amphibious assaults and then fighting to clear the most ferocious and determined of enemy's from their hidden caves and bunkers. From the deep jungles of New Guinea to the remotest of volcanic Pacific islands, US forces are now launching repeated amphibious operations to roll-back the Japanese threat and fight their way to the enemy's homeland. After finally stalling Japan's rapid advances, the Allies are starting their own offensives. You will need the Battlegroup rulebook for full enjoyment of this supplement.Īfter the Japanese launched surprise attacks on the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor, on the Philippines and Malaysia, their new empire has expanded across the Pacific, over-running smaller nations and forcing the Allies onto the defensive. 80173 Battlegroup Pacific War 26.86 30 GBP InStock Home/Wargames & Miniatures/Specialist Miniatures/Plastic Soldier Company Miniatures/Battlegroup Kursk/Ī fantastic 204-page hardback supplement for the Battlegroup gaming system, covering the War in the Pacific Theatre in 1944 & 1945.
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