Battlelines®: Streets of Stalingrad Ready-to-Play Set
Product Information
The Streets of Stalingrad Ready-to-Play Set contains everything needed for a two player game of Battlelines® World War II card game.
Included:
- Streets of Stalingrad Operation Deck
- 100th Jäger Division Unit Deck
- 112th Rifle Division Unit Deck
- a total of 165 unique high quality cards
Price:$29.95
History
Streets of Stalingrad
After a whirlwind summer blitzkrieg, the German Fourth Panzer and Sixth armies
found themselves on the outskirts of Stalingrad. The city straggled for over 25
miles along the west bank of the Volga River. It was a well-built, modern city
and included some truly massive factory buildings. Furthermore, it was filled
with determined defenders who were provided with substantial support by
artillery massed on the east bank of the river. The fighting in the streets of
Stalingrad was murderous at times seeing ten thousand casualties in a single
day. Whole divisions of the Red Army went into the defense of the city and
never came back out. The Germans were no better off, the training in maneuver
warfare was of little use on a battlefield that treated objectives that were
yards away and yet unreachable except with the most determined assault.
The 6th Army and Stalingrad Front battled for months, building by building and block by block. The Axis forces launched repeated attacks into the city. Gradually, they contracted the Soviet defensive positions and even reached the banks of the Volga in a number of places. Their attacks eventually carved the city into virtually isolated pockets of resistance. Heroes appeared one day and died the next and the whole world listened to reports of the fighting believing that an Axis victory on the Don could knock Russia from the war. But, in the end, the hard-bought Axis successes were meaningless. Division after division had been fed into the meat grinder. The flanks were weak. Winter was coming and along with it, a Soviet counter-offensive.
Battlelines®: Streets of Stalingrad is an operation in the Stalingrad campaign that pits the 100th Jäger Division and the 112th Rifle Division in a deadly struggle in the streets of Stalingrad. Both infantry divisions represent the very best of the forces engaged in the fighting. See if you can fight your way to victory.
100th Jäger Division
Formed in 1940 using the 54th Jäger Regiment as a cadre. In 1941 it was assigned to
17th Army as part of Army Group South. It saw heavy action in Odessa, Kharkov
and Staryyoskol before being assigned to 6th Army and Army Group B.
During the "Drive on Stalingrad" the 100th Jäger Division served as the reserve for 6th Army and was close to full strength when committed to the "Streets of Stalingrad." The division was trapped during "Operation Uranus" the Russian counter offensive and destroyed when 6th Army surrendered after the failed relief of operation "Winter Storm."
112th Rifle Division
The 112th Rifle Division was destroyed at Vayazma in October 1941. A second
division with the same designation was raised at Novosibirsk in Siberia in
April of 1942. In June it was attached to a reserve army in RVGK. It is thought
to have incorporated a large number of penal battalions at that time. In July
of 1942 it was assigned to 64th Army attached to the Stalingrad Front and sent into Stalingrad to hold the city. By September the
fighting in the "Streets of Stalingrad" had reduced
the 112th Rifle Division 150 men, but it was still in the field as a cohesive
combat unit. General Vasily I. Chuikov reportedly considered it one of his most
effective combat divisions.
Card List
Streets of Stalingrad Operation Deck
The Streets of Stalingrad operation deck recreates the bloody street fighting in the city of Stalingrad. Combat losses consumed ten thousand men a day for over three months. Whole battalions of troops were lost just taking a single house. In the end the 6th Army had taken the pile of debris on the Volga river that had once been the example of Soviet success. The operation deck provides missions and locations that are fought over in each game of Battlelines®.
| Card Name | Card Type | Card Name | Card Type |
| Axis Objectives | Axis Reinforcements | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Stalingrad No. 2 Station | Base | 635th Engineer Battalion | Troops |
| South Central Stalingrad | Base | 245th Assault Gun Battalion | Troops |
| Mamayev Kurgan | Objective | II/45th Artillery Battalion | Artillery |
| River Tsaritsa | Base | Do-17 Light Bombers | Aircraft |
| Minusinsk | Base | 672nd Engineer Battalion | Troops |
| Pavlov House | Base | Stuka Dive Bombers | Aircraft |
| Tractor Settlement | Base | Ju-87D Dive Bombers | Aircraft |
| Barricades Settlement | Base | ||
| Soviet Objectives | Soviet Reinforcements | ||
| Tractor Factory | Objective | Red October Workers Militia Regiment | Troops |
| Grain Elevator | Objective | Tractor Factory Workers Militia Regiment | Troops |
| Univermaag Department Store | Objective | Volga River Naval Infantry Battalion | Troops |
| Red October Factory | Objective | Remnants 104th Rifle Division | Troops |
| Central Landing Stage | Objective | 4th Heavy Rocket Brigade | Artillery |
| Krutoy Gully | Base | 688th Field Artillery Regiment | Troops |
| Stalingrad Central Station | Objective | Barricades Worker's Militia Regiment | Troops |
| Barricades Factory | Objective | ||
| Locations | Missions | ||
| Central Zaytsev | East Bank | Fighting at the Univermaag | Mission |
| South Zaytsev | East Bank | Storming the Central Station | Mission |
| Central East Bank | East Bank | Back and Forth at the Red October | Mission |
| Northern East Bank | East Bank | Holding the Red Barricades | Mission |
| North Zaytsev | East Bank | Fall of the Tractor Works | Mission |
| Southern East Bank | East Bank | Loss of the Central Landing | Mission |
| Krasnaya Sloboda | East Bank | Recapturing the "Iron Hills" | Mission |
| Rynok | Location | Holding the Grain Elevator | Mission |
| Razgulyayevka Station | Location | ||
| Minima Suburb | Location | ||
| Orlovka | Location | ||
| Red October Warehouses | Location | ||
| Verkhne Ishanka | Location | ||
| Banny Gully | Location | ||
| Sadovya Station | Location | ||
| Red October Settlement | Location | ||
100th Jäger Division Unit Deck
The 100th Jäger Division deck is an elite German light division that was supplemented with a Croatian regiment. The deck has a very high tactical tempo and a moderate operational tempo. This is a good deck for a deliberate player. It tends to reward planning, has good leaders and adequate company attachments. The fortune cards are heavily into sustaining combat operations and foiling enemy attempts to dominate the operational tempo of the game.
| Card Name | Card Type | Card Name | Card Type |
| 100th Jäger Division | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Formation Cards | Actions | ||
| 100th Jäger Division | Headquarters | Ordered Forward | Maneuver |
| 54th Jäger Regiment | Headquarters | Probe | Maneuver |
| I/54th Jäger Battalion | Troops | Forward | Maneuver |
| II/54th Jäger Battalion | Troops | Infiltrate the Lines | Tactics |
| III/54th Jäger Battalion | Troops | Bombardment | Tactics |
| 227th Jäger Regiment | Headquarters | Stealth and Shock | Tactics |
| I/227th Jäger Battalion | Troops | Press the Attack | Tactics |
| II/227th Jäger Battalion | Troops | Flank Them! | Tactics |
| III/227th Jäger Battalion | Troops | Preparation Barrage | Tactics |
| 369th Croatian Jäger Regiment | Headquarters | Driving the Wedge | Tactics |
| I/369th Croatian Jäger Battalion | Troops | Fire Support | Tactics |
| II/369th Croatian Jäger Battalion | Troops | Ju87 Dive Bombers | Aircraft |
| III/369th Croatian Jäger Battalion | Troops | Me109 Ground Attack | Aircraft |
| I/83rd Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Ju88 Medium Bombers | Aircraft |
| II/83rd Artillery Battalion | Artillery | ||
| III/83rd Artillery Battalion | Artillery | ||
| IV/83rd Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Battlefield | |
| 100th Reconnaisance Bicycle Battalion | Troops | Trenches | Fieldworks |
| 100th Field Replacement Battalion | Troops | Wire | Obstacles |
| 100th Bicycle Battalion | Troops | ||
| 100th Supply Column | Troops | ||
| Attachments | Fortune | ||
| Lt.General Sann | Leader | Decieved | Confusion |
| Colonel Utz | Leader | Radio Intercepts | Intelligence |
| Colonel Haffner | Leader | Ambushed! | Intelligence |
| Major Schwalbe | Leader | Fighter Sweep | Fog of War |
| Major Schwalbe | Leader | Interceptor | Fog of War |
| Captain Schaeffer | Leader | Sniper Team | Fog of War |
| PAK 38 | Company | Supplies | Fog of War |
| 75IG | Company | Air Drop | Fog of War |
| Sapper Company | Company | Medic | Fog of War |
| Shock Company | Company | ||
| Statistics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hand Maximum | Hand Minimum | Troop Quality | Service | Victory Points | Damage | Hits |
| 9 | 5 | Elite | 1940–1943 | 496 | 39 | 54 |
112th Rifle Division Unit Deck
The 112th Rifle Division deck is a line Russian rifle division that was organized with extensive organic mortar support in the regiments. The leaders and company attachments are extensive and effective. This division has superior overall artillery but limited anti-armor capabilities. If you like to get in close with infantry and pound your opponent with artillery this division is an excellent choice.
| Card Name | Card Type | Card Name | Card Type |
| 112th Rifle Division | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Formation Cards | Actions | ||
| 112th Rifle Division | Headquarters | That’s an Order! | Tactics |
| 385th Rifle Regiment | Headquarters | Press the Attack | Tactics |
| I/385th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Attack Again! | Tactics |
| II/385th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Up the Gully | Tactics |
| III/385th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Charge | Tactics |
| IV/385th Mortar Battalion | Artillery | Scouts | Tactics |
| 416th Rifle Regiment | Headquarters | Infiltrate the Lines | Tactics |
| I/416th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Deliberate Assault | Maneuver |
| II/416th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Pe-2 | Aircraft |
| III/416th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Attachments | |
| IV/416th Mortar Battalion | Artillery | Major General 112th Rifle | Leader |
| 524th Rifle Regiment | Headquarters | Colonel - 385th Rifle Regiment | Leader |
| I/524th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Colonel - 416th Rifle Regiment | Leader |
| II/524th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Colonel - 524th Rifle Regiment | Leader |
| III/524th Rifle Battalion | Troops | Commissar | Leader |
| IV/524th Mortar Battalion | Artillery | Antitank Guns | Company |
| I/436th Artillery Battalion | Artillery | 7.6cm Antitank | Company |
| II/436th Artillery Battalion | Artillery | 7.6cm Fieldguns | Company |
| 112th Reconnaissance Battalion | Troops | Pavlov’s Gangsters | Company |
| 112th Sappers Battalion | Troops | Sapper Company | Company |
| 112th Antitank Battalion | Troops | Light Mortars | Company |
| 112th Mortar Battalion | Artillery | AA Machinguns | Company |
| Supply Column Battalion | Troops | Fortune | |
| Lost! | Confusion | ||
| Battlefield | Radio Intercepts | Intelligence | |
| Trenches | Fieldworks | Elite Sniper | Fog of War |
| Bunkers | Fieldworks | Sniper Team | Fog of War |
| Fire Plan | Fieldworks | Sniper | Fog of War |
| Minefield | Obstacles | Captured Supplies | Fog of War |
| Medic | Fog of War | ||
| Statistics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hand Maximum | Hand Minimum | Troop Quality | Service | Victory Points | Damage | Hits |
| 8 | 5 | Veteran | 1942–1943 | 331 | 38 | 53 |
