(COI.COD) TS4 "SOLDIERS OF DESTRUCTION"

Published in the GENERAL volume 19 number 5: Updated 060718


RADZYMIN POLAND, October 10, 1944: The men of the SS Totnkopf Deivsion had stalled teh advance of the Fifth Guards Tank Army in late September. Then silence. No fighting had occurred for the past three weeks. It seemed like a dream, time to sleep, time to write, time to mend clothing, time to listen to the birds xxxx. Replacements arrived; weapons were stripped an cleaned. It was too good xxxx unreal. A feeling of unease pervaded the encampment. There was almost a sigh of relief as the dull thunder of the Russian ad advance begam.

VICTORY CONDITIONS: The Russians player must exit eight squazds oof thge south edge of the mapboard. AFVs with functionin main marmament are the equivalnt of two squzds.. The German player wins by avoiding the Russian victory conditions

 
BOARD LAYOUT
North
4
6

SCENARIO SEQUENCE

German sets up first
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
END
Russian moves first

GERMAN FORCES:

RUSSIAN FORCES:

SPECIAL SCENARIO RULES:

AFTERMATH: The three week lull around Warsaw ended abruptly xxxxx. the gury of the renewed Russian offensive. By sheer weight of numbers xxxx the Fifth Guards Tank Army pressed the SS units back 30 kilometer nothwest to the conjuction of the Vistuala and Bug. There, the SS Totenkopf Division held until the Soviets had exhausted themselves, lat in October 1944. AFterwards, another long period of quidt fell as both battered combatants strove to recoup the strength that had once been theirs for the coming effort.

CREDITS: Original design by Burt Baker, Development by Jon Mishcon & Joe Suchar. The TS scenarios were used in the Origins 1983 COI/COD tournament.