Kursk: Burning Tigers, Scenario Thirty-Seven: Forgotten Success VII: Struggle for Sirtsev

This was fun size scenario to play. The Germans have three victory objectives with a nice mix of armor types and Infantry. The Soviets have a nice mix of armor, anti-tank guns and Infantry as well as some entrenchments and minefields and a nice reinforcement group that fortunately enter the map on turn seven for me.

The Germans attacked the first group of town hexes on map 42 with half their Infantry and sent the rest forward with the armor to attack the hills and fixed Soviet positions trying to protect those fPzIIIs and ENG units, as they were sorely needed to help fight entrenchments, dug-in enemy units and clear minefields. Even so some were lost in the attempts.

The Germans never cleared the last town hex on map 41 and couldn’t clear all the 40-meter hill hexes either but managed to exit 10 steps counting the triple step Tigers but only achieved one out of three victory objectives, for a Soviet Minor Victory.

With that said, the Germans could have won at least a minor victory if they didn’t overlook the one lone town hex on map 41 and if they hadn’t tried to achieve all the victory objectives at the same time an concentrated on maybe one at a time. The Soviets reinforcements entered early on turn seven or they might have lost the hills. So many things to try differently next time for both sides, as the Soviets could also have setup differently and maybe not worried about a few German exited units. Fun scenario!