Operation Nordlicht: Europa Scenario

Soviet Initial Forces

by Lars Wistedt


Oct I 1944

Initial conditions

Accumulated Replacement points:
Sov Inf RP's 6
Sov Am RP's 2
Sov Air RP's 10

Karelian Front

(Marshal Meretskov)

14th Army

(LtGen Schcherbakov)

126th Lt Rifle Corps (Col Solovev)

Deploy in hex 6A:1620
1x 2-8 Ski X 31 (w)
1x 2-6* Inf X 72 (Nvl)

127th Lt Rifle Corps (MjGen Zhukov)

Deploy in hexes 6A: 1619, 1720 or 1719.
1x 2-6* Inf X 69 (Nvl)
1x 1-6* Inf X 70 (Nvl)

99th Rifle Corps LtGen Mikulskii)

Deploy in hexes 6A: 1519, 1619 or 1618.
1x 4-6 Inf XX 114
2x 3-6 Inf XX 65
2x 2-1-8 Mort X any [275, 620, 173 Mtr III]
1x 3-2-6 Art X any [1236, 471 Art III]

131st Army Corps (MjGen Alekseev)

Deploy in hexes 6A: 1418, 1519
1x 5-6 Inf xx 10 (Gd)
1x 5-6 Inf XX 14 (w)
1x 2-1-8 Arm X any [73 Tank III, 378 AsltG III]
1x 2-8 Mort X any [44, 64 Gd Mort III]
1x 2-1-8 Mort X any[535, 482 Mort III]
1x 3-2-6 Art X any [51, 633 Art III]
1x 2-6 Art X any [989 How III]
1x 1-6 Lt AA III any [325]
1x 2-8 Aslt Eng X 1

Group Pigarevich

Deploy in hexes 6A:1318,1119
1x 3-6.Inf XX 45
1x 2-6* Inf X 3
1x (2) Fort Region North (use any Stalin Line unit)

31st Army Corps (MjGen Absalimov)

Deploy in hexes 6A: 1518, 1617
2x 3-6 Inf XX 83,367

14th Army support units

Deploy with or adjacent to any Soviet units, but not adjacent to any Axis unit, within the Soviet deployment areas:
1x 2-6 Aslt Eng X 13
1x 2-1-8 Arm X any [89 Tank III, 339 AsltG III]
3x 3-1-8 Rkt III any
2x 4-1-8 Rkt III any
1x LVT (from Second Front)

Red Air Force

Deploy two 3-capacity airfields within 3 hexes of Murmansk and the following units on any Soviet airbase north of Kandalaksha (inclusive):
1x Yak 9
1x LaGG 3
1x P-39Q
1x P-40E
2x IL 4
1x Pe 2 B
2x IL 2M3
1x Po 2

Soviet Navy

Deploy the following units in Murmansk:
1x DD-flotilla
3x LC (from ST)
4x NT (from SF)

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