Shurek: No worries, I wasn't taking it too seriously, kharkov may 42, if you have a scenario in mine that fits the parameters specificed then list it and see how the voting goes for it.
Divinehammer: Sorry, City and Street maps do not fit in the defined parameters.
I going to add this to the nomination list, unfortunately at the moment is a semi-historical nomination, as I know the fight took place here but I cannot narrow it down to the square km it took place in.
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/maps/1941NW/Baltic/21MC_Daugavpils_June28_July3_41.jpg
54 Pz Korps controlled by General Erich von Manstein, cross the at dvinsk and created a bridgehead
After the seizure of the Dvina bridges and the fall of Dvinsk, the leading formations of LVI Panzer Corps furiously set about enlarging the bridgehead. On June 25th, marshal
Semyon Timoshenko ordered Colonel-General Kuznetsov to organize a defense of the West Dvina, by deploying 8th Army on the right bank of the river from Riga to Livani while 11th Army would defend Livani-Kraslava sector. Colonel-General Kuznetsov also decided to use Major-General Berzarin's 27th Army. Berzarin was to pull his troops off the Dago and Osel islands and out of Riga and bring them to Daugavpils. At the same time Stavka released Major-General Lelyushenko's 21st Mechanized Corps from Moscow Military District to cooperate with 27th Army; Lelyushenko had 98 tanks and 129 guns.
At 5:00 AM, on June 28th, Lelyushenko attacked upon Kuznetsov's orders in attempt to destroy the German bridgehead near Daugavpils. von Manstein halted on Dvina but on the next day he attacked, striking along the Daugavpils-Ostrov highway. At Riga on the afternoon of June 29th, the Germans crossed the railway bridge over the Dvina and on 30 June Soviet troops withdrew on the right bank of the river and by July 1st were in retreat to Estonia. A priceless opportunity now offered itself to the Germans. An immediate drive forwards would make it almost impossible for the Soviets to defend Leningrad. However, it was not to be, orders received with disbelief by the tank men were to wait for the infantry to arrive, in the end the wait would last almost a week.
Colonel-General Kuznetsov was removed as Front commander by Timoshenko and Sobennikov, 8th Army commander, took over the Front, effective from July 4th. Timoshenko issued a directive on June 29th to the North-Western Front stipulating that in the event of a withdrawal from the Western Dvina, the next river line, the
Vilikaia, was to be held and every effort made to get Soviet troops installed there. Despite this the river Vilikaia line had fallen rapidly at July 8th and the rail and road bridges remained intact.
Pskov itself fell on the evening of July 9th. The 11th Army commander was therefore ordered to move to
Dno. The crumbling of the North-West front on the Velikaya and the German sweep to
Luga were grave set-backs and the 8th Army was being rammed inexorably towards the
Gulf of Finland. But the German pause had given time for the Soviets to rush in more troops to defend Leningrad and the battle for the city would be long and hard.
I will am highlighting the 42nd motorised division (Russian), against the 3rd motorized division (german) defence attack centred around a church, google map coordinates 55 55 35N, 26 43 22E with a battle space of 600m x 600m square.
Hopefully we will have a list of maps to vote on by friday, please guys go ahead and list more semi historical and historical if you can find them battle maps and accounts, please attach a google location as well.
