With time running out for the trapped XX Corps in the Augustowo Forest, the newly-arrived Russian XV Corps attempted to break through the German ring around them. These Russian regiments had been destroyed at Tannenberg six months earlier, and restored with their depot battalions, the handful of survivors and newly-inducted reservists. They now faced the same Germans who had won at Tannenberg.

The Russian attacks could not break through the German positions, despite the desperate situation of XX Corps. The XV Corps had been thrown into action before it had been fully re-constituted, and paid for that lack of preparation with a huge list of casualties and very little progress on the ground. Bulgakov’s XX Corps would be pressed into an ever-tightening cauldron and by the 22nd resistance had ended.

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