While most Russian generals reacted sluggishly to the unexpected German attack, this was the moment for Evgeny Radkevich, recalled from retirement in August 1914 to command III Siberian Corps. Radkevich immediately recognized the danger and began a careful retreat, dispatching a mixed battle group led by his chief of staff, Vasiliy N. Bratanov, to the crossroads town of Lyck to keep open his communications. But Radkevich wasn’t the only one to recognize Lyck’s significance, and soon the Germans arrived to try to wrest it from his Siberians.

Radkevich’s methods should have been a recipe for disaster, sending 32nd Siberian Rifle Regiment to Lyck as the core of Bratanov’s detachment and pulling one battalion from each of many other regiments in both III Siberian and XXVI Corps to create a new formation out of nothing. But thanks mostly to the Siberians, the positions held long enough for the two Siberian divisions to march past and file into a new line stretching south-east from Lyck. For now, the left wing of Russian Tenth Army had been saved from encirclement.

Counters and maps from the first edition of August 1914 will work in place of those components of the second edition.

The German Oberleutnant should be a Leutnant.