A Stalingrad Puzzle

To Moscow

by Greg J. Schloesser



You as the German player have managed to advance almost to the city of Moscow. Your opponent has launched counterattacks elsewhere on the board, leaving a pair of 5-7-4s on S33, a 2-3-6 on P33, units on P31 and Q30, three 5-7-4s on U33, and two 7-10-4s and the 6-9-6 on W32 - the counterattack. Soviet forces North of Moscow are relatively weak, but the Soviets do still hold the line of the Divina.

Your strategic advisor, noting that you have almost any units you want in range, proposes massing the German Armor - which is at full strength - on R33, S32, and T32, allowing a 4-1 on S33. Your second advisor notes that by splitting the attacks you can get a 5-1 on one of the two Russian infantry, so long as the German units on S32 participate in both attacks. He predicts that your action will precipitate the definitive firefight, directly in front of Moscow.

For five points, and a pink panzer, can you identify a significant improvement in their proposal?

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