Take command of the Red Armys 25th Guards Tank Brigade, your main core force are two tank battalions equipped with 42 x T-34-85 (M1944 Early), in total you have 5 core units. Support will come from 2nd Guards Tank Corps and 11th Guards Army including: Heavy Self-propelled Guns, Flamethrower-tanks, Rocket-launchers, heavy Artillery and so on. There are 6 missions in the campaign that takes place during the critical days of Operation Bagration from 25 June to 30 June 1944. Your mission is to fight your way towards the White Russian Capital Minsk along the
Smolensk-Minsk Highway. Your main opponent will be one of the best Divisions in the German Army Group Center: The 78th Assault Division (78. Sturm Division).
| WHAT VERSION OF COMBAT MISSION IS THE FILE FOR? | CM : RED THUNDER |
| WHAT IS THE SCENARIO / MAP TITLE? | The Road to Minsk (Campaign) |
| FILE TYPE? | SCENARIO VS AI ONLY |
| DOES THE SCENARIO / MAP REQUIRE BATTLEFRONT DLC OR MODS? | NO |
| WHAT SIZE IS THE BATTLE? | HUGE |
| WHAT ARE THE MAP DIMESIONS? | 2000×2000 |
| WHAT TYPE OF BATTLE IS THIS? | ATTACK |
| WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE SCENARIO? | MORE THAN 1 HOUR 29 MINUTES |
| WHERE IS THE SCENARIO / MAP BASED? | SOVIET UNION [RED THUNDER] |
| WHEN IS THE SCENARIO BASED? | JUNE 1944 |
| WHAT TIME OF DAY IS THE SCENARIO BASED? | DAY |
| WHAT IS THE WEATHER IN THE SCENARIO? | CLEAR |
| NATIONALITY OF SIDE ONE | Allied |
| NATIONALITY OF SIDE TWO | Axis |
| THIS SCENARIO IS BEST PLAYED AS… | SIDE ONE VS AI |
| SUBMITTED BY? | Lille Fiskerby |
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Played this campaign, one of the better campaigns I have downloaded.
-Very Large
-Nice range of Tanks/Guns/Arty etc. throughout the campaign.
-The urban maps can get a bit rough.
Thank you for your comment, just curious can you remember how many T-34/85’s you had at the start of the last mission ?
Lille, I just want to say that “The Road to Minsk” was the best campaign I have ever played, and I have played many – 10/10. It took me 8 months to complete – each battle in the campaign was so vast with a huge map and monstrous forces – taking an hour or more just to do one turn! I didn’t think Paper Tigers’ campaigns could be bested, so congratulations. I won a Total Victory at the end – I am not a save scummer – the results of each turn were not replayed in any fashion. Those Germans were tough. The great equalizer was the German mortars/arty. I have never seen indirect fire so accurate and FOLLOW my soldiers as they advanced!!!! I would disperse whole companies and move them in dead ground – but it wouldn’t matter, the German artillery always found and followed them. It was truly uncanny. My favourite battles were #1 and #3, although the final battle was epic. I can only imagine the time it took you to design these huge maps and populate them with the enemy.
I assume you are the maker of this campaign?
I can’t remember the amount of tanks I had on last mission, i think I had what i was suppose to have, including all the damaged T/34’s.
I did not have any problems bug wise with this campaign. The Urban maps/attacks were frustrating but all urban maps are frustrating for me.
I really like this campaign as you get Rockets, large Arty, and almost? the full Range of soviet tanks. Cant find any other campaign as good/diverse.
Link to download 🙂
http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/download/The-Road-to-Minsk.zip