Eastfront, so, I was hoping for Operation Husky and more Italians but well, the Italians where also fighting the Russians as we all know
I would suggest a battle that took place during the Operation Little Saturn. As we all know was the aim of Operation Little Saturn to counter the German Unternehmen Wintergewitter. Germans tried to relieve the trapped armies at Stalingrad, Russians launched counter counter attack (Operation Little Saturn). The (one aim) aim was to crush the weak pints of the German front line in that case the positions of the German allies, the Rumanians, Hungarians and Italians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Saturn#Operation_Little_SaturnI would love to see the battle between the Russian 3rd Guards Army and the Italian 8th Army. The battle took place at the River Don near a Town called Millerovo. Manstein sent the 6th Panzer Division to the Italians' aid
So I would suggest a push map with the Russians attacking from the river Dom. Russians would attack with combined arms, so Tanks an Infantry.
Italians would defend with typical equipment, only a few trenches since the Italian army did not really set up a proper defence.
47/32 Anti Tank Gun Elefantino (already in game)
5-cm-PaK 38 (already in game)
7,5-cm-PaK 40 (already in game)
Fiat L6/40 (already in game)
Semovente 47/32 (don’t know if already in game)
As you can see from the Italian equipment, this would end in massive Italian slaughtering. That’s what happened but I would suggest that the paks would be movable to compensate the lack of proper tank support to face the Russian T34s and KVs. Then, at a certain point of the game, when the Russian team has captured a fixed number of Flags we can start to represent the german 6th Panzer Division by spawning German tanks. So it would be the same trick as we have already on the Africa maps like Mareht Line.
Since I’m not home right now Im not 100% sure if the Italians already used the German Pak 40 and also on some other details I’m not 100% sure. A long time ago that I read about that battle.
So if the people think this would be worth a map I will read my books again an will provide “high quality” information on that battle but also I’m sure that on these forums there are enough geeks to improve my idea with ideas and information or they are going to prove that I’m total wrong on that one.
Points for that Map are clear
1. Italians (yay!)
2. Lots of the Italian models are already in game, don’t know if rescinning the Italian Soldiers would do the trick
3. Don’t think that this battle was every portrayed in a FH game
4. Took place during the said period of War
And I support the Idea of Volkssturm