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Authors: Uwo, Anatoly Dyatlov

Last revision: 4 Dec, 2025 at 14:04 UTC (13)

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Description:

Single player Missions Ger vs Sov (NOT Coop ready)

This is a mini Campaign with 5 planned Missions around the "Battle of Bautzen".

‘Spremberg-Torgau Offensive’

Weissenberg Trainstation
Bautzen Trainstation
Bautzen-Ortenburg
Kubschütz
Kausche (is under construction)

‘Skirmish/Doktrines’

Königsberg
Spremberg
Narvik

Supporters of this Mod are:
MACE Mod
Waffen XX/Heer Mod
THE GREAT WAR Mod
Horten’s Frontline Mod
Panzergrenadier Robert
and more…… all in the Mod-readme in the Mod Folder.

I would like to say a big thank you to Wiga & Erik, _sturmlocke_, SabbelZombie and Anatoly Dyatlov for models, skins,
maps, icons, pictures and many more. Thanks alot.

Accepted:

Limited Units in the Reinforcement Menü.
Sounds are used for historical empathy.

History:
In the last months of World War II, the Polish Second Army, under General Karol Świerczewski, took part in the Soviet drive on Berlin. Part of Marshal Ivan Konev’s 1st Ukrainian Front, the Poles operated in the centre of the front, flanked on the right by the 5th Guards Army and on the left by the 7th Mechanized Corps. Opposing these forces was the 4th Panzer Army under General Fritz-Hubert Gräser, of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner’s Army Group Center.

On 17 April, the Polish Second Army breached German defenses on the rivers Weisser Schöps and Neisse. Their pursuit of retreating German forces toward Dresden threatened to cut off additional forces in the Muskauer Forst region. On 18 and 19 April elements of the Second Army (the 8th Infantry Division and 1st Armored Corps) engaged the Germans in the south and pushed them back while the remaining units (5th, 7th, 9th and 10th infantry divisions) drove on to Dresden, gaining bridgeheads on the River Spree north of Bautzen and destroying German forces in the Muskauer Forst. The following day Soviet units of the 7th Mechanized Corps captured parts of Bautzen and secured the line south of Niesky, taking Weißenberg and trapping several German formations.

Świerczewski decided to prioritize the taking of Dresden over securing his southern flank, deviating from the plan he was given by Konev. Meanwhile, Schörner was concentrating his units (the "Görlitz Group") in the Görlitz (Zgorzelec) and Reichenbach region, and planned to launch a counteroffensive at the southern flank of the Polish Army. His aim was to stop the 1st Front’s advance and break through to Berlin to relieve the trapped 9th Army. The Germans were pinning their hopes on the idea that the Soviets might be fended off long enough for the city to be surrendered to the Western Allies. The concentration of Schörner’s units went unnoticed by Soviet and Polish reconnaissance.

More Information are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bautzen_(1945)

Bautzen 1945 and today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48FDCCUhxQY&t=282s

The Battle of Bautzen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gopuA43oMd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkK0mijxFc