In late September 1942, while all the eyes were focused on the titanic struggle
taken place at Stalingrad, Stalin, Zhukov and the rest of Stavka met to access
the militairy sitiation and discuss offensive plans for the upcoming winter.
Zhukov convinced them that the Red Army had amassed enough strategic reserves
to conduct two major counteroffensives. The counterattack at Stalingrad was the
most famous, but here at the Rzhev salient Marchal Zhukov planned the second
strike - Operation Mars. This operation was meant to destroy the German 9th Army
and eliminate the German threat on Moscow. As the Soviet player, can you accom-
plish Zhukov's goals of defeating the German 9th Army and pinching off the Rzhev
salient? Or as a German player, can you halt and defeat the massives Soviet
armies that threaten your entire Army Group Center?
Rzhev '42