Battlelines®: Winter Storm Ready-to-Play Set
Product Information
The Battlelines®: Winter Storm Ready-to-Play Set contains everything needed for a two player game of Battlelines® World War II card game.
Included:
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a total of 165 unique high quality cards
Price: $29.95
History
Winter Storm
The
relief of Stalingrad by 4th Panzer Army
was under the command of Field Marshall von Manstein. The plan was simple and
desperate. The 4th Panzer Army would attack along the Rostov to Stalingrad
railroad and relieve the besieged 6th Army. The supply situation was so
difficult that the German panzers carried fuel and ammunition on the decks of
the tanks.
Two phase lines were in the plan the first was the attack across the Chir by the 48th Panzer Corps to join 4th Panzer Army as it approached Kalatch. This attack never materialized since the 48th Panzer Corps was engaged in a swirling battle with the Soviet 4th Tank Army and 1st Guards Army along the Chir River. Zhukov had timed the attacks of little Saturn perfectly. The Second Phase line was the breakout attack by 6th Army when 4th Panzer Army approached Stalingrad. Field Marshal von Paulus never launched the breakout and thus doomed his army to destruction.
1st Guards Mechanized Corps
The
1st Guards Mechanized Corps was built from the remnants of the 1st Guards Rifle
Division. Assigned to the 3rd Guards Army, Southwestern
Front, in November 1942, the corps was first committed to action during
Operation Saturn. Teamed with two tank corps, the 1st helped maul the
Rumanian 3rd Army, destroy the Italian 8th Army and then drive for the
Stalingrad airfields. During the attempted German relief of Stalingrad,
operation "Winter Storm
" left the 1st Guards Mechanized Corps in sore need of a refit.
After a period of rebuilding, the corps was engaged in the Battle of Kursk and spent the remainder of 1943 supporting offensive operations in the Ukraine. Following a year in reserve during 1944, the corps returned to action in January 1945. After participating in the conquest of Hungary and Austria, the corps ended the war in Vienna.
11th Panzer Division Unit Deck
The 11th Panzer Division was raised in the summer of 1940 as part of the
"armored forces" expansion in preparation for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Its first combat came during the capture of Belgrade, Yugoslavia the following
year. Later it advanced through the Ukraine and then participated in the
attempt to take Moscow during the winter of 1941.
In 1942, the 11th Panzer Division fought a series of delaying actions along the Chir river as part of operation "Winter Storm ", the failed attack to relieve Stalingrad. These actions by the famed 48th Panzer Korps - "The Fire Brigade" - ranged all along the Chir river bend and held against a brilliantly timed counter offensive by Marshall Zhukov.
After refitting the 11th Panzer Division was committed to the battle of Kursk,
where the division continued in heavy combat throughout most of 1943. Late that
year, the battered 11th Panzer Division was transferred to France and rebuilt.
After fighting delaying actions in the Rhone Valley, the division continued
defending southern Germany, finally surrendering to the Americans in May 1945.
Card List
Winter Storm Operation Deck
The Winter Storm operation deck recreates the snow bound fighting during the attempted relief of Stalingrad. Actions along the Chir river valley and along the Rostov-Stalingrad rail line are included in the operation. This is the final deadly culmination of the Stalingrad campaign. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mishov Bridgehead | Objective | 210th Assault Gun Battalion | Troops |
| Stalingrad Central Station | Base | 851st Artillery Battalion | Troops |
| Dubovskoe | Objective | 672nd Engineer Battalion | Artillery |
| Mishov Steppes | Base | 44th Engineer Battalion | Troops |
| Askai Heights | Base | Kampfgruppe von Kluge | Troops |
| Aksai River | Objective | 283rd Anti-Tank Battalion | Troops |
| Nizhne-Chirskaya | Objective | ||
| Kotelnikovo | Base | ||
| Soviet Objectives | Soviet Reinforcements | ||
| Gronioslavka | Base | 84th Tank Brigade | Troops |
| Buzinovka | Objective | 57th Infantry Brigade | Troops |
| Pimen-Cherchen | Base | 96th Infantry Brigade | Troops |
| Vasilyevka | Objective | 335th Artillery Regiment | Artillery |
| Mishov River | Objective | 99th Rifle Division | Troops |
| Verkhne-Kumskii | Base | 385th Field Artillery Regiment | Artillery |
| Don River Steppes | Base | 4th Heavy Rocket Brigade | Artillery |
| Askai Bridgehead | Objective | 377th Artillery Regiment | Artillery |
| 97th Infantry Brigade | Troops | ||
| Locations | Missions | ||
| Donskaya-Tsaritsa River Valley | Location | Hoth Jumps Off | Mission |
| Verkne-Chirskaya | Location | Deflating A Bridgehead | Mission |
| Chir River | Location | Soviet Counterattack | Mission |
| Chir River Valley | Location | Mishov Deadlock Broken | Mission |
| Rychkov | Location | Stalled Breakthrough | Mission |
| Krasnoyarski | Location | Operation Small Saturn | Mission |
| Generalovski | Location | Operation "Thunderclap" | Mission |
| Sheshtakov | Location | German Hopes Receding | Mission |
| Verkhne-Yablochnyi | Location | ||
| Vodyanskoye | Location | ||
| Plodovitoe | Location | ||
| Tormosin | Location | ||
| Kumskii-Kapinskii | Location | ||
| Pereguznyii | Location | ||
| Gremyschii | Location | ||
| Maiorskii | Location | ||
1st Guards Mechanized Corps Unit Deck
The 1st Guards Mechanized Corps is the largest group of formations that are deployed in Battlelines. The combat power is concentrated in direct fire against soft targets, with the second most effective attack being a direct fire versus armor. The 1st Guards Mechanized Corps deadly when attacking but is very brittle when attacked. This is because the unit deck is modeled on the 1942 organization for the Battlelines® Stalingrad campaign. The 1st Guards Mechanized Corps unit deck is optimized for offensive attrition.
| Card Name | Card Type | Card Name | Card Type |
| Formation Cards | Actions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Guards Mechanized Corps | Headquarters | Into a Frozen Hell | Maneuver |
| 1st Guards Mechanized Brigade | Headquarters | For the Motherland! | Maneuver |
| I/1st Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Scouts | Tactics |
| II/1st Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Infiltration | Tactics |
| III/1st Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Covered Approach | Tactics |
| 2nd Guards Mechanized Brigade | Headquarters | Close Combat | Tactics |
| 19th Guards Tank Regiment | Troops | Hidden Approach | Tactics |
| I/2nd Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Enfilade | Tactics |
| II/2nd Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Hidden Ford | Tactics |
| III/2nd Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Attachments | |
| IV/2nd Mortar Battalion | Artillery | Major General 1st GMC | Leader |
| 3rd Guards Mechanized Brigade | Headquarters | Colonel 1st GMB | Leader |
| 20th Guards Tank Regiment | Troops | Colonel 2nd GMB | Leader |
| I/3rd Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Colonel 3rd GMB | Leader |
| II/3rd Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Major Gorki | Leader |
| III/3rd Guards Mechanized Battalion | Troops | Junior Sgt Koponov | Leader |
| IV/3rd Mortar Battalion | Artillery | Remains 18th Guards Tank | Company |
| 267th Mortar Regiment | Artillery | Heavy Mortars | Company |
| 1504th Guards Antitank Battalion | Troops | Field Gun Battery | Company |
| I/116th Guards Artillery | Artillery | Crash-Booms | Company |
| III/116th Guards Artillery | Artillery | Big Guns | Company |
| 1453rd Medium SU Regiment | Troops | Guards Sappers | Company |
| 1544th Heavy SU Regiment | Troops | Quartermaster Company | Company |
| 84th Motorcycle Battalion | Troops | Fortune | |
| 407th Guards Mortar | Artillery | Supply Shortage | Confusion |
| Battlefield | Partisans | Confusion | |
| Ambush! | Intelligence | ||
| Radio Intercepts | Intelligence | ||
| Interceptors | Fog of War | ||
| Sniper | Fog of War | ||
| Captured Supplies | Fog of War | ||
| Rail Supplies | Fog of War | ||
| Statistics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hand Maximum | Hand Minimum | Troop Quality | Service | Victory Points | Damage | Hits |
| 5 | 4 | Trained | 1942–1945 | 329 | 51 | 44 |
11th Panzer Division Unit Deck
The 11th Panzer Division was engaged in fighting along the Chir River from late November through December of 1942, during which it destroyed Red Army forces at a rate of ten to one . The unique organization of the 11th Panzer Division may have contributed to the success, as well as the leadership of the commanding general - Herman Balck. The 11th Panzer Division has an extra reconnaissance battalion allowing for faster operational movement. Also, the extensive company attachments provide the player with the ability to flexibly apply combat power based on the situation.
| Card Name | Card Type | Card Name | Card Type |
| Formation Cards | Attachments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 11th Panzer Division | Headquarters | Lieutenant General Balck | Leader |
| 15th Panzer Regiment | Headquarters | Colonel Kranz | Leader |
| I/15th Panzer Battalion | Troops | Captain Lestmann | Leader |
| II/15th Panzer Battalion | Troops | Cross of Iron | Leader |
| III/15th Panzer Battalion | Troops | JagerPanzer I Section | Company |
| 11th Motorized Rifle Brigade | Headquarters | K18 Cannons | Company |
| 110th Motorized Rifle Regiment | Headquarters | Self Propelled 15cm sIG | Company |
| I/110th Motorized Rifle Battalion | Troops | 7.5cm IG Battery | Company |
| II/110th Motorized Rifle Battalion | Troops | 7.5cm Support | Company |
| 111th Motorized Rifle Regiment | Headquarters | 2cm FlaK Battery | Company |
| I/111th Motorized Rifle Battalion | Troops | Actions | |
| II/111th Motorized Rifle Battalion | Troops | Forced March | Maneuver |
| I/119th Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Concentration | Maneuver |
| II/119th Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Across the Chir | Maneuver |
| III/119th Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Across the Chir | Maneuver |
| 209th Pioneer Battalion | Troops | Encircle | Tactics |
| 61st Panzerjager Battalion | Troops | Flank | Tactics |
| 231st Reconnaissance Battalion | Troops | Combined Arms | Tactics |
| Lehr Reconnaissance Battalion | Troops | Surprise | Tactics |
| 61st Motorcycle Battalion | Troops | Around the Flank | Tactics |
| 61st Replacement Battalion | Troops | Hit Them Now | Tactics |
| 277th Light Flak Battalion | Troops | Out Flanked | Tactics |
| 61st Supply Column | Troops | Envelopment | Tactics |
| Fortune | Bypass | Tactics | |
| In Their Lines | Confusion | Hidden Approach | Tactics |
| Night March | Confusion | ||
| Radio Intercept | Intelligence | Battlefield | |
| In Position | Intelligence | Trenches | Fieldworks |
| Patrol | Fog of War | Strongpoint | Fieldworks |
| Supplies | Fog of War | ||
| Medic | Fog of War | ||
| Statistics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hand Maximum | Hand Minimum | Troop Quality | Service | Victory Points | Damage | Hits |
| 9 | 5 | Elite | 1940–1944 | 538 | 48 | 57 |
