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New Scenario : "Advance on Chervonohirka"

Ukraine Advance against Russia Defend

Date: Mid-July, 2023

Length : 20 turns.

NOTE : This scenario requires the 1Q 2023 patch to the Steel Panthers MBT game, or some of the units will not display correctly on the battle map. It can be found in Slot #561 of your "Scenarios" list.

Site: Approaches to the village of Chervonohirka, eastern Ukraine, south of Bakhmut.

The Ukrainian Spring 2023 offensive is now underway, and forward elements of one of Ukraine's (mostly) Western-equipped battle groups are advancing on the small rural village of Chervonohirka, which lies on Regional Highway T0408, between Orikhiv in the north and Tokmak in the south. Ukraine needs to take this village, and many others, to open the way to a later assault of Melitopol and, possibly, Crimea.

The Ukrainian army is approaching Chervonohirka from the north, heading south on Highway T0408. The battlefield layout is somewhat unusual, as the village is surrounded by wide-open wheat-fields, with a collection of houses and tree-stands arranged on either sides of the highway, and a regional road that intersects Highway T0408. There is little cover other than for this, which means that control of the village and tree-line will probably decide victory in this scenario.

Ukraine's strike group includes a motley collection of Western-supplied AFVs, supplemented by some Soviet-era equipment. Its regular army soldiers are better-motivated and -skilled than their Russian equivalents; unfortunately, however, most of the Ukrainian forces are made up by poorly-trained 'Territorial' troops, who are at best equivalent to the Russian conscript forces that they will have to fight. Off-map artillery support, in the form of the famous HIMARS rockets, is available, but ammunition is in short supply, so only a few barrages will be possible.

As for the Russians, they have had only limited time to construct a defense line around Chervonohirka, as Putin has kept most of his better units for other purposes (such as defending Crimea); so the Russian forces around the village are second-rate, and they have not had enough time to lay extensive minefields or other fixed physical obstacles.

Russia does have artillery and air superiority, and regional headquarters have allocated a few reinforcement units to shore up the defences of Chervonohirka, some time after the battle is joined. So the task of the Russian field commander will be to hold on, until reinforcements can even up the odds.

Will Ukraine capture Chervonohirka and open the way for a rapid advance down Highway T0408? Or will Russia's hastily-constructed defense line hold, and put an early end to the Ukrainian counter-offensive?

Play this scenario to find out!

Note : This scenario is dedicated to the brave and resilient people of Ukraine. May they find their way to a just and fair peace settlement.