Victory conditions: Five objective markers are placed on table.All hills are cross country, all woods are open woods.1 is left flank, 2 left rear, 3 center, 4 center, 5 right rear and 6 right flank. Soviets enter on board on random die rolls.Germans enter on board on random die rolls.No gun teams or infantry teams (It is Tanksgiving after all!). Each player to build a 1,500 early war tank force.Entry points were from the middle of each short end of the table and along the back edge for each side. Each player was given 1,500 points to build a force. The game was set up as a five player game (3 German and 4 Soviet). This was one of the most intense armored engagements in the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa and recent scholarship considers it the largest tank battle of World War II, surpassing the more-famous Battle of Prokhorovka. Poor Soviet logistics, German air supremacy as well as a total breakdown in Red Army command and control ensured victory for the Wehrmacht despite overwhelming Red Army numerical and technological superiority. Although the Red Army formations inflicted heavy losses on the German forces, they were outmanoeuvred and suffered enormous losses in tanks. It is known in Soviet historiography as a part of the “border defensive battles”. The Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group’s III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle formed by the towns Dubno, Lutsk, and Brody between 23 and 30 June 1941.
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