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24 Dec

Update on Mius Front development

Next year we will return to the battles near Kharkov.
During the war, the front line was moves near the city 5 times, and the game will show a retrospective of the battles from the summer of 1943 to the spring of 1942 and maybe even the autumn of 1941.

And the first operation that will appear in the game will be battles of the 6th Guards Cavalary Corps in the ​​Novaya Vodolaga area at the end of February 1943.
Parts of the 6th gds CC acted essentially behind the front line, on enemy communications. But by February 20, the German command pulled up reserves to the Krasnograd-Novaya Vodolaga area and launched a counteroffensive with forces of 2nd SS TC in the direction to Pavlograd-Lozovaya.

Part of the SS LSAH division together with infantry divisions covered the left flank of the offensive and gradually retreated to the south and south-west, reducing the front line width. Simultaneously, the SS Reich and Totenkopf divisions attacked to Lozovaya.
11 Cavalary Division from 6 gds CC received the order to breakthrough the enemy defenses in the area of ​​Borki-Ryabukhino and, together with units of 184 RD (attached to 6 gds CC), seize the Novaya Vodolaga.

Open terrain and the necessity to attack relatively fresh enemy forces, as well as the general frailty of units 11 CD and the absence of heavy weapons, did not contribute to the success of the offensive. By February 24, due to the offensive of 2 TC SS on Lozovaya, the situation on the front of the neighbor of 3TA - 6A from South-West Front exacerbated, which led to the collapse of the offensive in the direction of Novaya Vodolaga and the turn of 3TA forces to south on Krasnograd direction.