Toward the end of 1942, the German High Command saw that the tide on the
East Front had reached its peak. After the setback in front of Moscow in 1941,
the mighty German Army surged forward again in the summer of '42. After
defeating an ill-fated Soviet summer offensive at Kharkov in May, they drove
onward to the outskirts of Stalingrad by the late summer of that year. This
is where the Stalingrad '42 game picks up the fight, including a number of
scenarios covering the drive to the Volga. After several months of bloody house
to house fighting in the fall, the Soviet positions were reduced to pockets
of rubble, barely 300 meters from the Volga. As the season turned to winter,
Hitler remained fixated on the taking of the city, ultimately leading to
disaster for his troops. He had badly underestimated the Soviet army's
ability to mount an offensive on his flanks. The Russians cut through weak,
poorly equipped, Rumainian troops and encircled the entire Sixth Army. In
Stalingrad '42 you can re-fight this titanic struggle, exploring both the
historical situation in addition to a number of plausible "what if"
situations; a German retreat, a corseted flank defence, or a powerful
panzer rescue force made available had Rommel been succesfull at Alamain.
Stalingrad '42