Enemy at the Gates*
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Date: August 24, 1942*                     
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Battle Type: Russian defend vs. German assault*
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Design: CB Blackard*
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Background:  On the northern outskirts of Stalingrad near the suburb of Spartanovka, lay the "pride of Soviet industry", the Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works.  Prior to the war, this massive complex of factory buildings produced farm machinery.  Since 1941, however, it was one of the Red Army's principal producers of T-34 tanks.*
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Battle Description: In August 1942, German forces closed in on Stalingrad.  One of the main thrusts was from the north, aimed directly at the Tractor Works.  Factory workers, formed into militia units without proper uniforms, dug trenches along the Mokraya Mechetka River and prepared to defend their workplace.  On the morning of August 24th, the German 16th Panzer Division began the assault to capture the northern sector of Stalingrad.  The workers' militia fought desperately, committing T-34 tanks to battle the moment they rolled off the assembly line.*
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Note:  This scenario should be played with the human player as the Russians and the computer player as the Germans.*
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Source:  Craig, "Enemy at the Gates" (Bantam edition, 1982) pp. 57-58; Map:  Carell, "Stalingrad", p. 221.

 
