![]() ![]() Both sides deployed their country's elite forces. Meeting engagements, hasty defenses and even the first widespread use of tank busting aircraft were more typical of the day to day fighting. Fought across nine days from July 4th to July 12th the battle was much more than the imagined storming of a fortified line. ![]() With a focus on the more climactic southern attack, players will understand why both sides viewed the battle as a victory though many would consider it Pyrrhic. Battles of Kursk – Southern Flank is the first release in John Tiller's Panzer Battles series. The German attack was but Act I in the Russian plan. Kursk was to be the first time that the Russians stopped a German summer offensive before it had achieved its strategic aims and more significantly build their own operation where there was a clear defensive and offensive phase. The battle was to be the zenith for Germany it was never to drive the initiative in the East again. ![]() In early July, 1943 for the last time as equal combatants German and Soviet forces fought one of World War 2's most pivotal battles at Kursk in Southern Russia. ![]()
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