Historical Background:
In early November 1942, German 6.Armee controlled 90 percent of the city of Stalingrad. General Winter arrived on the 9th of November and the temperature fell suddenly to minus 18° Celsius. On the 11th of November, General Paulus launched the last offensive to crush definitively the Russian defenders of Stalingrad. The German offensive succeeded to cut off the 62nd Russian army and to reach the Volga behind the Barricade factory. Russian troops still held a part of the Red October factory and were never dislodged from it. The German offensive was, once again, a set back. The battle lasted again during a week without any better results for the Germans. On the 19th of November, General Zhukov ordered operation "Uranus", which surrounded definitively the German 6.Armee in the ruins of Stalingrad.
The stage is set, the battle lines are drawn, and you are in command. The rest is history.

Briefing:
Axis player [Germany] : 9 command cards, you move first.
Allied player [Soviet Union] : 10 command cards.

Conditions of Victory:
15 medals.
An Axis unit that captures any hex adjacent to the Volga counts as one temporary medal objective. Only one medal is gained, even if more than one hex is captured.

Special Rules:
- Use "Combat Engineer" rules (Troops 4) and "Sniper" rules (Troops 10) to the units with appropriate badges.
- Use "Air Strike & Blitz" rules (Actions 3), but use only one dice for the two players.
- Volga river is not frozen but impassable (Terrains 8).
- The Allied player lays out the minefields (Terrains 29).
- Use "Screaming Meemies" rules (Troops 25) to the two Katiuchas units, with only incendiary shells.
- Urban combat rules or Winter combat rules are optional if you have the battle map "Sword of Stalingrad" or the expansion "Winter Wars".

Scenario Bibliography:
- "Stalingrad" - Antony Beevor.
- Magazine Historica hors-série n°47 - Stalingrad 1 - l'offensive.

Remember, see the ruins of the mill and Mamaev Kurgan memorial.

Warning:
Please note that this scenario was not approved by Richard Borg or Days of Wonder, so you have to check yourself about playability, potential gaming issues, etc.