Hohenstaufen to Tarnopol (Updated for V5)*
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Date: April 11, 1944*                     
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Battle Type: German Assault vs Soviet Defend*
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Design: CB Blackard*
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Battle Description:  It is April 1944 and yet another crisis looms for the German forces on the eastern front.  Tarnopol has been surrounded and declared a 'fortress' by Hitler.  General Feldmarschall von Manstein has been replaced as commander of Armee Group South by Feldmarschall Walter Model.  General Balck's XXXXVIII Panzerkorps is tasked with breaking through the Russian defenses and relieving the Tarnopol 'fortress'.  In this scenario, pioneers from the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen are tasked with capturing a bridgehead across the Wosuszka river at Horodyszcze in order to facilitate the relief operation.*
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Note: If played against the AI, this scenario is best played with the human player as the Germans.*
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Hint:  The Russians will likely blow the bridge over the Wosuszka on turn 1.  Thus, consider using pioneers with inflatable rafts to reach the east bank.* 
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Source:  Tieke, "In the Firestorm of the Last Years of the War", p. 49-50*
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