Korsun Pocket
Strategic Studies Group and Matrix Games
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 Crush the Nazi War Machine
Korsun Pocket uses a greatly improved version of the Ardennes Offensive engine to recreate the desperate German attempt to escape encirclement on the Russian Front early in 1944. The battle is a tense and exciting struggle, with neither side having a decisive advantage, as the Russians struggle to form the pocket, then try to resist successive German rescue efforts and last ditch attempts at breakout.
5 out of 5 stars,
Editors Choice
" The best hex-based wargame ever made. Period."
- Bruce Geryk Computer Gaming World - September 2003
The System
The Decisive Battles system features an integrated move/combat system that exploits the computer's processing and data storage powers to create a system that is more fluid and realistic than traditional boardgames. Prior combats can influence movement, units have a wide variety of combat and supply abilities and SSG's legendary AI routines make fearsome opponents.
The Decisive Battles combat system faithfully reports all aspects of a battle to the user. This allows him to make fully informed decisions before a battle, and to determine whether a particular outcome was the result of generalship or luck.
Gamespy,
2003 Game of the Year - PC Wargame
"Korsun Pocket is arguably the best traditional hex-based wargame of all time."
The Battle
By January 1944 the Soviet Army had forced the Germans back from the river Dnieper everywhere except for the area between Kanev and Cherkassy, south of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. This area formed a bulge in the German line and was an obvious target for a battle of encirclement.
On January 25th two Soviet fronts under Generals Konev and Vatutin launched attacks at the base of the bulge. Three days later they closed a ring around two German army corps and formed the Korsun Pocket.
Unwilling to allow an immediate breakout, Hitler ordered panzer divisions moved to the area and counterattacks made. From February 4th to 15th the Germans struggled unsuccessfully to break into the pocket, engaging in swirling battles with Soviet armor. Finally, on February 16th the order was given for the trapped men to break out. In a hellish night battle 40,000 Germans broke through to their own lines, but lost half their number on the way.
PLATFORM/SYSTEM SPECS
Windows 98 / Me / 2000 / XP
Pentium II 450 MHz CPU
128 MB RAM
DirectX
8.1
8 MB Video Card 16bit color
Sound Card (DirectX 8 comp.)
8x
CD-ROM
400 MB free Hard Disk space
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