With the success of insurgents employing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in recent conflicts, the principles of breaching are extremely relevant to future Army training. Our Army must also retain the capacity to rapidly deploy and defeat our enemies on their own territory. Army now is smaller but still retains various commitments around the world. This needs to change to restore our ability to dominate future battlefields through combined-arms maneuver. The combined-arms breach has fallen by the wayside in recent years as our doctrine has focused more on counterinsurgency operations. Soviet forces use signal flares to illuminate the battlefield during the Soviet counterattack in the battle for Kursk.
Two campaigns – Attack the north flank with the German panzers or defend the Soviet lines in the south.Figure 7. New units: German Elefant and Brummbar, Nashorn and Stu42, Soviet Su76i and lendlease Churchill III and Valentine tanks. Linked carryover missions mean that excessive losses may leave forces too weak for final victory. Use the massive firepower of the German super heavy tanks to blast your way through the endless lines of trenches and bunkers or rally the Soviet defenders to hold out against the onslaught. It focuses on the key events of the Soviet counteroffensive and can be played from both sides: capture the station at Ponyri, the “little Stalingrad”, defend the road to Oboyan and launch the armoured charge at Prokhorovka. Two titanic armies meet head on in the golden cornfields of Russia.īattle of the Kursk is the first expansions for action-packed tactical masterpiece Battle Academy 2. The Soviets, having deduced the German plan, cram their forces into the bulge, creating layer after layer of defensive positions to stop the German panzers in their tracks. The Germans assembled their most powerful divisions, freshly equipped with the latest equipment, to attack the north and south flanks of the salient around the city of Kursk. 
In the summer of 1943 both Soviet and German High Commands gathered their strength for what they both believed would be a decisive battle.
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