The City Fight

[dxdavieau]

I very much appreciate your thoughts, Rerathbun & Blackcloud6. Thanks.
I'm going to take your suggestion and try playing it with standard PzG rules. I am going to allow the Russians to entrench 2 hexes (fortified buildings) though, even in the city.....I'll post the results

Your points 1 & 2 are exactly the things i'm considering. The problem is the 3 CU stacking limit, even in assault. It doesn't allow for concentrated attacks by any more than a single company. The specific example I'm looking at is the attack by 577 IR (305 ID) on the north section of the RB factory (a 3 hex area @ 200m), That assumes a Battalion per hex if all 3 are on-line. So PzG works (sort of) assuming either a 1 co up/2 co back attack (not the norm in Stalingrad) or assuming they're +/- 50% depleted (they were not in good shape at this point but not 50% either). The defense is going to be pretty tough. (1.5 Sov Rifle Regiments defended that area)
I believe Town (-2 col) won't adequately represent serious city terrain. -3 seems a minimum to me. Also, the Russian's knack for fortifying these areas needs to be addressed. That'll make a russian hex a nightmare to assault with just 3 CU......Especially if fortifications allow them to shoot first....

Perhaps the stacking can be increased w/i the assault hex? (That's how RB plays) Then at the end of the fight, the overstack can be corrected by the units with the worst morale condition falling back?.

Another difficulty is fixing the time limit for a scenario. ASL's +/- 8 turns for a RB CG day represents only 1 (maybe 2) PzG turn. On the other hand, these men did not fight all day....Any thoughts?