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On 29 June 1941 the Platinum Fox phase of Silver Fox was launched. German Mountain Corps Norway, crossed the border and advanced on Murmansk. They were opposed by units of the Soviet 14th Army. The two divisions advanced in two directions. In the south the 3rd Mountain Division was able to penetrate the Soviet lines at the Titovka Valley in one day after fierce fighting. In the north the 2nd Mountain Division also made good progress in the first hours to secure the neck of the Rybachy Peninsula. The offensive soon met with heavy Soviet resistance, especially from some ad-hoc ground units of the Soviet Northern Fleet.

Platinum Fox™ is a game recreating the Petsamo-Murmansk Campaign,1941.

• One A2 map

• 143 15mm counters and markers

• 16 page rulebook

• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables.

“Red waves against a Blue Wall”

The Battle of Krasny Bor is game no 1. in HOLD THE LINE™. The Soviet offensive near the town of Krasny Bor formed the western arm of the Northern pincer of Operation Polar Star. The Soviet offensive began on the 10 February 1943, and produced noticeable gains on the first day but rapidly became a stalemate. The strong defense by the Spanish Blue Division and the German SS Polizei Division gave the German forces time to reinforce their positions.

”Stand firm”

The Battle of Smerdynia-Lyuban is game no 2. in HOLD THE LINE™. While the 55th Army attacked Krasny Bor, the objective of 54th Army was to create a shallow encirclement of the German 96th Div, which was recovering from the earlier fighting at Sinyavino. The army was to attack north of the village of Smerdynia in the direction of Tosno where it would meet the 55th; it would then attack towards Lyuban to divert the attention of German 18th Army from the deep encirclement being planned by Northwestern Front once its forces captured the Demyansk salient and its defenders.

Hold the Line™ is a game recreating the battles of Krasny Bor and Smerdynia-Lyuban, 1943.

• Two A1 maps

• 143 15mm counters and markers

• 16 page rulebook

• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables.

Operation Pole Star was planned by Georgy Zhukov in the wake of the successful Operation Iskra and envisaged two separate encirclements. One was to be carried out in the north by the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts near Mga and one was planned to be carried out further to the south, by the Northwestern Front, near Demyansk, with the objective of the complete destruction of Army Group North. (NOTE: The southern pincer is not part in this Supplement.)

Zhukov’s Failure™ is a supplement and not a game. Together with the games ”Iskra” and ”Hold the Line” it lets you to recreate the failed Northern Pincer of Zhukov’s Operation Pole Star, 1943.

• Two A1 maps

• One A2 map

• 16 page rulebook

• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables.

In mid-August 1942, commander of Panzerarmee Afrika, Ernst Rommel appreciated that Allied strength was rapidly increasing and that if the Nile Delta was to be reached, then an attack must be launched before the Allies’ training and acclimatization was complete. However, his woeful supply net meant that his more ambitious plans were unachievable – but that did not stop him from trying. Moreover, he was additionally unfortunate that Allied Intelligence, via ULTRA, knew that Rommel was planning his attack during the full moon at the end of August. In the light of this information, Montgomery, recently appointed head of the British 8th Army, arranged his forces behind a strong belt of minefields. The stage was set for Rommel’s last drive for the Nile.

• One A1 map

• 286 15mm counters and markers

• 20 page rulebook

• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables

‘Les Premiers au Rhin’TM is the title of the relevant chapter from de Lattre’s book, The History of the French First Army. The French advance to the Rhine (19 November 1944) and the final capture of Mulhouse and Belfort six days later were successes of which de Lattre was rightly proud although this was tempered by disappointment that Colmar (briefly an objective) proved to be beyond their reach. Four French infantry divisions and two armoured divisions were amassed against the depleted German forces in the lower Vosges and Belfort gap. The next fortnight saw intense fighting before the deteriorating weather and depleted supplies closed the offensive down.  

• One A1 map

• 286 15mm counters and markers

• 20 page rulebook

• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables

‘Colossus Stumbled’TM is the title of the game that handles the first 12 intensive days of the second Battle of Kharkov (nowadays Kharkiv), 12 to 23 May  1942. On 12 May 1942, Soviet forces launched an offensive against the German 6th Army from a salient established during the winter counter-offensive. After a promising start, the offensive was stopped on 15 May by massive airstrikes and the Axis started their counter-offensive ‘Operation Fredericus’, in the region around Kharkov. Its objective was to eliminate the Izium bridgehead over Seversky Donets or the "Barvenkovo bulge" which was one of the Soviet offensive's staging areas.

• One A1 map

• 286 15mm counters and markers

• 20 page rulebook

• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables

‘Triangle of Death’TM depicts the Battle of Dubno (other names used includes Rovne and Brody) which was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's 3rd Army Corps and 48th Army Corps (Motorized) and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle formed by the towns of Dubno, Lutsk and Brody between 23 and 30 June 1941. It was one of the most intense armored engagements in the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa. Although the Red Army formations inflicted heavy losses on the German forces, they were outmanoeuvred and suffered enormous losses in tanks.

• One A1 map

• 286 15mm counters and markers

• 20 page rulebook

• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables

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