Wed 18Feb 2004 | Velikiye Luki

Velikiye Luki is a set of 4 scenarios depicting several portions of the battle that took place in this area in late Nov 1942 to early Feb 1943.

This new custom scenario from Run5 regular Brubaker, features 4 scenarios based upon the Russian assault on the Velikiye Luki centre.

The main battle - the campaign - depicts the initial onslaught of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army and its subsequent bypassing of the town Velikiye Luki and the attempted capture of the railway line to the west.

This scenario is now available for Korsun Pocket - from our Scenario Section.

Click below to read Brubaker's designer notes:

******** Velikyie Luki v1.0 *********

1. Version
2. Installation
3. Scenario Notes
4. Credits

1. VERSION

This is version 1.0 of the Velikyie Luki Scenario. It is designed for use with the Korsun Pocket game engine 1.0 and 1.1

Use of this battle will NOT alter any of your original data.

2. INSTALLATION

All files from the zip archive should need to be placed the following folder ....korsun pocket\Scenarios\Velikyie Luk

Download the self extrating EXE from the Run5 Scenario area. Double click on the VLuki.exe and then browse to your Korsun Pocket\scenario\ folder and click on unzip. This should install all files and associated sub directories into a ..scenarios\Velikyie Luki folder under your main Korsun Pocket Folder.

The game can be played by selecting Velikiyie Luki from within the game scenario menu.

3. SCENARIO NOTES

Velikiye Luki is a set of 4 scenarios depicting several portions of the battle that took place in this area in late Nov 1942 to early Feb 1943.

The main battle - the campaign - depicts the initial onslaught of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army and its subsequent bypassing of the town Velikiye Luki and the attempted capture of the railway line to the west. It is 28 turns in length.

Ride of the Valkyries is a 10 turn game that depicts the very western portion of the battle from Nov 22nd onward. Portions of the Soviet 2nd Mechanised Corps have an opportunity to capture the city of Novosokolniki and intercept the vital supply railway running through there. The German commander will lead the 8th Panzer Division to the rescue.

The Citadel is a 12 turn scenario that allows a Russian Commander to try and crush the city of Velikiye Luki with the batterred forces available to him. Can you crush the defence? As german can you hold on to win (a pyrhhic victory)?

Finally, Steel Inferno depicts a 2 week period during which the Germans attempted to rescue the beleagured defenders of the Velikiye Luki city. Group Woehler was an adhoc battle group comprised of units near enough to attempt the rescue in time. The scenario is a 28 turn (2 weeks) game that presents the German Commander with the best possible units available at the time. The Russian is wounded by not defeated, and the weather worsens by the day.

Although it would have been nice to depict the campaign from beginning to end in one scenario, this would involve representing a 3 month period which translates to some 90 turns! For the sake of sanity I chose to select the most important events.

4. CREDITS

Again I would like to thank the fine folks involved at the Run5 website, namely Rob Gjessing and Chris Merchant, for their work on that great site and hosting my files. The site can be found at http://run5.wargamer.com/ It truly is the foremost site for all things Korsun Pocket related.

Thanks Rob G and Roger Keating for your advice on all things editorial, and Rob particulalry for your hints on mapmaking.

Thanks SSG for producing such a great game to work with, and Matrix for getting it out there to you people.

All artwork was created using Photoshop 6.1

Images were sourced from the web. I have not sought permission to use these so if anyone has any objection to any image being used please contact me at brubaker@esc.net.au and they will be altered/removed.

Have fun!

Scott Wilson (Brubaker) February 2004

Posted by Robjess at February 18, 2004 05:58 PM