In our defense, this scenario is representative of the battles Soviet Col. Gen. Tolbuknin pressed to seal off the Crimea and to cross the lower Dnepr.

German historian Paul Carell wrote a brief description of the campaign and from what we could tell, the campaign was bloody for both sides.

Carrell chronicles on series of attacks over two weels in a position on the open steppes. Despite being outnumbered an average of five to one in every category, ten to one in rifle units ( put together by NKVD press gangs, every swinging dick from 12 to 70 ), the Germans held the Kalmyk Steppes in this region for nearly a month before logistics and casualties finally took their toll.

One battle was pressed fourteen times and fourteen times the Russians were repulsed with bloody results.


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