The Soviets launch multiple attacks,
picking on the weakest points in the Axis lines,
trying to breakthrough.
The Luftwaffe are trying hard to support the army.
In this edition the air support is not just column shifts,
but also can add to defense strength (which is how terrain benefits are largely factored)
This time I remember to take the photo showing the Soviet attacks, marked by their combat ratio.
As can be seen there are attacks everywhere!
The Panzer Corps are concentrated on the very ends of the lines.
The rest of the line is fragile, but holding.
Belgorod (north east of Kharkov) has been surrounded.
The two divisions trapped there are fine, so long as they don't get a retreat result as there is no determined/desperate defence in the 1st Edition.
I recall reading somewhere about Soviet grand strategy that lay behind their attacks, likening it to a pianist running his hands up and down the keyboard. Quite an evocative image, I thought.
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