Fortress Koenigsberg Released

Just to recap,

There are two parts to the game. One is a generic two player game, Battle Field Chess, where both sides have the same map and units - from the mid to late 20th century. This acts as a base pack for other people who wish to make single-player scenarios using the same concept.

There is also an example of a single player scenario to show what can be done using BFC. It is called Fortress Koenigsburg and is based on the German evacuation of East Prussia in 1945.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/BFCv1.zip

for additional info, see this thread

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42489

Anyone played it and want to post their comments yet?

Heres a screen from 8pm Day 1. In the Command Bunker you build the 'tick' slowly and when its done (rushing via favour points), you can use it to pick one of the reinforcement options which appear at random intervals on your control panel.

Im about to start playing it now. Looks great!

Great. I'm here to give advice but I'll keep any tips to myself till you ask.

There is a save file called jumpstart.sav if you don't want to bother to place the units yourself. Pretty useful the first time round if you are not that familiar with the units.

Day 1 - 12.00 am
There are over still over 50,000 civillians to be evacuated and Chernyakovsky's 3rd Belarussian Front has already broken through the last of the frontal defenses. What is left of the 3rd Panzer Army, 69th and 367th Infantry Divisions have been retreating to the Koenigsberg area and I have reorganised them into 3 mixed brigades to reinforce the thinly spread garrison of the newly formed 2nd Volksgrenadier division.

1BDE has been given orders to take up defensive positions on Hill 333 in the Northwest to slow the advance of the Soviets. The other two brigades will form a final defensive line while 1BDE buys precious time. 2BDE has been tasked to prevent any crossing of the Pregel River west of the City and two gun emplacements have been hastily errected next to vital bridges. 3 BDE will be defending Koenigsberg itself in parallel with the 97 Volkssturm battalion. Various other smaller reserves have been assigned to the Sampand Peninsula and Harbour Area to maintain order.


Day 1 - 2.00 am
It has begun. Both observation posts in the Northeast and Northwest have been heavily shelled and most of the men in the North west have been wounded or killed. A forward recon company has been ordered to fall back to the observation post to reactivate it. The third observation post on the Samland Peninsula endured artillery attacks as well but has survived intact. They reported that one group of refugees was caught in the artillery barrage and slaughtered. Further south, the garrison at the Vrangel tower guarding the northing approac to the city was caught off guard by sturmoviks and wiped out.

I have decided to reinforce Boat House North as it is the last remaining collection point north of the city. A mixed force of a marine battalion plus combat engineers and battery of AA guns is being rushed there by barges. A second force of two marine battalions is racing down to the tannenberg area to delay the soviets before the reach hill 333. Fortunately we still control the rivers.

A recon company is being sent to the Devau Aerodome area to see if the Soviets are approaching yet. That is a blind spot between the two main observation posts.

The first load of refugees has left for Germany.


Day 1 - 4.00 am
One volkssturm garrison at the ruins of Koenigsberg Cathedral was lost to bombers. A squadron of fighter-bombers was sent to hunt down the enemy bombers as they retreated but the inexperienced pilots were shot down themselves instead.

Two of the reserve Fallschirmjäger battalions have been deployed to reinforce NW Obs Post and the Citadel as emergency measures. Having landed they are proceeding on foot to their objectives.

So far not many enemy ground untis have been sighted but I am sure they will begin attacking at dawn.


Day 1 - 6.00 am
Soviet Sturmoviks continue attacking with impunity. One squadron which has been particularly irritating was finally shot out of the sky at Citadel but another squadron managed to wipe out all remaining soldiers at the NE Observation post.

Several T-34 and Infantry Battalions supported by SU-85s have been spotted heading towards Tannenberg. Our only hope is to slow them down before they reach Hill 333.

Just to be safe, I have ordered the bridge leading from the Samland Peninsula at Maraunenhof to be fortified. All forward areas have been ordered to plant as many minefields to slow then the Soviets when they are finally overun.

Day 1 - 8.00 am
Recon patrols show hundreds of soviet tanks and tank destroyers forming up in the woods north of the Aerodome and Tannenberg. Two companies of Panthers and Two companies of late model Pz IVs have been assigned to dig in in the south west of Tannenberg to further delay the Russians in street fighting. They have been ordered to abandon their vehicles as soon as they run out of AP ammo.

A makeshift force of armour and infantry have dug in around the Krupp Steel factory until combat engineers are available to fortify the bridge just south of it.

Word has reched us that the first batch of refugees have made it to Germany.

Day 1 - 10.00 am
Soviet infantry have breached the first minefield west of OP North West. Our Recon Coy stationed there has been ordered to abandon their post. They wouldn't be able to hold out for more than a few minutes against such firepower. Another recon patrol has spotted truckloads of eastbound motorised infantry speeding crosscountry towards OP North East. The observation post has long since been abandoned.

Day 1 - noon
OP Northwest and most of the town of Tannenberg has fallen. A soviet message was intercepted.

Received confirmation of your breakthrough of the German perimeter at. Tannenberg. The 26th Shock Tank Regiment is transferred to your command to exploit the gap. Remember the words of our Chief Propaganda Commissar Ilya Ehrenburg. Tell your political officers to ensure that the men rape all women and kill every last one of the butchering Nazis.

Morale among the men is falling. Our delaying force of tanks has dug in and the Fallschirmjäger unit in Tannenberg has been relieved and is falling back.

Surprisingly, the two battalions have won the race to arrive at the Aerodome first. The Red Army has lost the initiative for the timebeing and their attacks are being blunted along the entire front.

Day1 - 2.00pm
As expected, OP Northeast near Hill 740 has been overun. The front in the east now stretches from the Aerodome to the Boathouse to the Vrangel Tower, now temporarily occupied by the Fallschirmjäger unit originally at the Cathedral. An AA battery has positioned itself at the Cathedral because of frequent air attacks.

The first of three levels of minefields around the Samland OP has been breached by a mixed force of Soviet marines and tanks. Recon has revealed the presence of an opportunity target in the far north of the Samland peninsula and detachment of PZ IV originally heading for the OP has been tasked to engage the target ASAP. There isn't any realistic chance of holding the OP.

The river relief force has reached Boathouse North and is now on its return leg to Boathouse South carrying civilians.

Day1 - 4.00pm
The second minefield at Samland OP has been breached. Soviet Sturmoviks fly multiple sorties targeting all our supply nexes.

2 Marines battalions have been deployed on opposite banks of the Memel. One is harrasing soviet troops using crossing the bridge linking Tannenberg with the Samland Peninsula while the other is being used as a rear guard for the remaining troops in Tannenberg.

A second liner has departed from the Dockyards carrying wounded (the hospital train to pilau is no longer running) and civilians. I have received word from the Kreigsmarine that three additional requsitioned passenger liners have been assigned for the Koenigsberg evacaution and are on their way.

Day1 - 6.00pm
In a surprise move, soviet infantry flanked our paratroopers guarding the main approach and took the Vrangel Tower fort by surprise. We no longer control one end of the Queen Louise Bridge and Red troops can attempt a crossing to Koenigsberg at will. This has been a major setback. The last message received -


URGENT MESSAGE FROM VOLKSSTURM BATTALION 97

The Queen Louise Bridge has fallen and the Russian troops are beginning to cross over to the central Koenigsberg district. Our survivors will link up with the Volkssturm HQ at the Citadel and we will make our final stand there. Say a prayer for our souls.


The last remaining minefield at OP Samland is gone and the OP is open for the taking.

Day1 - 8.00pm

As the sun sets, Soviet artillery being their relentless shelling of the Citadel. So far casualties have been light.

The mini force of tanks have been completely wiped out. Perhaps I should have sent veteran units instead. They did not hold out for long enough. This is our second disaster.

Combat engineers are now working full steam to set up killzones and minefields at strategic locations besides Hill 333. Namely the Railway station, the Krupp Factory Bridge, the Pregel twin Bridges, the Citadel, Boathouse North and Dona Tower Bridges. Hopefully they will have enough time to complete their task.


Day1 - 8.00pm
Both Combat engineer battalions setting up fortifications at the Citadel were wiped out be artillery. Any hope of holding out in a seige are now dashed.

Soviet attacks on Devau Aerodome have been intensifying but our troops are still holding out.

Day1 - 10.00pm
The lone battalion of Volkssturm irregulars at Samland OP managed to destroy over thirty T-34s but over another 100 tanks and detachments of marines still press on the attack.

The three passenger liners have arrived but not enough regugees have arrived at the Dockyards to fill even one of them.

One of our recon Coys was caught in the open and destroyed by artillery will surveying deep in Soviet territory near A GSSB.

Day 2 - 12.00am
Soviet gun boats finally dislodged our Marine Bn guarding the western end of the Tannenberg bridge.

The Russians finally called in some bombers and took Sampalnd OP after a pitched battle but not before another two dozen T-34s were rendered inoperative.

Another fully loaded liner has left for the Fatherland. The evacuation is proceeding at a painfully slow pace.

Day 2 - 2.00am
In the dead of night, soviet marines and light tanks have landed south of Koenigsberg in an attempt to take Fort Fredrich Wilhelmina by surprise. This is one of the strategic areas I had not thought to put minefields and killzones as it was too far south. Fortunately they were sighted early and the fort plus the adjoining bridge is still in our hands.

Artillery at Devau Aerodome managed to destroy a SU-152 formation that was tangled in a minefiled. However, the bulk of the assigned garrison was earlier killed in an ariraid the the airfield will soon fall.


Day 2 - 4.00am
3 Battalions of Panzer Grenadiers broke through enemy lines in a counter attack from Samland and have joined Army Group Blue. Their unexpected arrival has lifted the spirits of the defenders.

So far the kill ratios have not been in our favour as the Soviets have air-superiority and they keep surprising us. We will not be able to achieve our objective at this rate.

Armoured BNs
BLUE losses 3, Red Losses 5

Infantry BNs
BLUE losses 10, Red Losses 2

Aircraft SQNs
BLUE losses 2, Red Losses 9

Civilians killed
BLUE losses 1

Um, there's something wrong with your labels.txt. It gets to the title screen, then crashes with a "illegal operation" error. Removing labels.txt solves the problem. Other than that, looks very nice. Very original.

Originally posted by Bob_Smurf
Um, there's something wrong with your labels.txt. It gets to the title screen, then crashes with a "illegal operation" error. Removing labels.txt solves the problem. Other than that, looks very nice. Very original.

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This is the first time someone has reported this difficulty. Possible reasons -

Not using the highest version of MGE
File corrupted when downloaded or unzipped. is is 13.0k in size?

If not then its probably operating system dependent. From comparisons, all I can see is that its 0.1k bigger than a few other lables.txt I looked at. Maybe if I shrinked it down it would work for you. Would you like me to try and attach it here?

Day 2 - 6.00am
At dawn a final assault by air and ground troops overwhelmed our tired troops at the aerodome, it is now in soviet hands. The commandant sent a final message saying that sealed crates earmarked for shipment to Berlin on the last JU-52 have gone missing. Moments later, a Pz 4 commander radioed that he had found the crates after capturing the target of opportunity on the Samland Peninsula. It contained the dismantled Amber room from Koenigsberg castle. Received 300 favour points for this great find.

Defense works on Hill 333 are more or less completed and all flat approaches have been converted to killzones. The Hill is now protrcted by a full armoured brigade supported by artillery and AA batteries (see picture).

Russian Marines have landed on Koenigsberg and are entrenched near the cathedral ruins.

Day 2 - 8.00am
The long awaited assault on Koenigsberg Citadel / Volkstrumn HQ has begun. Intial attacks were just probes and easily repelled. A Tiger Bn holding a forward position has been ordered to retreat to the city center to rejoin the rest of BDE3. I have ordered combat engineers to be transferred to Koenigsberg via RPL to replace the two battalions that were lost but it seems that any chance of completing defense works there before a major assault are minimal.


Day 2 - 10.00am
One Tank battalion was lost in the battle for Fort Fredrich Wilhelmina controling the southern approach to Koenigsberg. It is now only being held by a 75mm Battery and Commandoes.

Enemy artillery has started to shell Tower Dona on the Pregel River in addition to the Citadel while Boathouse reports repeated aieral bombing.


Day 2 - noon
Dozens of truckloads of Red soldiers and tanks entered the killzones north of the Citadel in broad daylight and were proptly dispatched by our artillery.

The light tanks attacking Fort Fredrich Wilhelmina have withdrawn. I fear they are heading further south where we have nothing but civilians for them to kill.

Day 2 - 2.00pm
More Russians salughtered at the Citadel with minimal losses. In addtiton, they are falling for the same trick in the North west. The slopes of Hill 333 are littered with dozens of burnt out tanks. Well they can afford it, they have such a surplus of manpower and equipment.

With the onslaught of the RUssians, civilians are finally beginning to stream into the Dockyards by the thousands. There is only one remaining liner berthed.


Day 2 - 4.00pm
Little enemy activity. They are probably reassessing the situation after getting a bloody nose. Meanwhile defense works are proceeding at full speed along the Pregel river, our second line of defense.

Day 2 - 6.00pm
A RPL squadron headed for Boathouse North was sunk by artillery and all our forces there are trapped without hope of resuce.

Day 2 - 8.00pm
Enemy units are beginning to attack from flank areas where the rugged terrain does not allow the creation of killzones. Our troops are in the fight for their lives.


Day 2 - 10.00pm
The Dockyards are becoming overwhelmed with refugees. To aleviate the congestion, I have ordered the construction of a new jetty to the east.

Attacks on Boathouse North are increasing in intensity. Fortunately it is completely protected by killzones in all directions.

Day 3 - 12.00am

Intelligence reports that General Chernyakhovsky is in the plains northeast of hill 740. I do not have the reserves to launch a counter attack. Instead, I have decided to request an airstrike to try and decapitate the head of the Russian forces.

The first 10,000 civilians have reached Germany.

With our defensive positions set up and the Russians attacking recklessly, our kill ratios have improved dramatically.

Armoured BNs
BLUE losses 3, Red Losses 30

Infantry BNs
BLUE losses 14, Red Losses 19

Aircraft SQNs
BLUE losses 2, Red Losses 12

Combat Engineer BNs
BLUE losses 2

Recon Coy
BLUE losses 1

Civilians killed
BLUE losses 1


Picture below - Red Lambs to the slaughter at Hill 333

Day 3 - 2.00am
Under the cover of night the last RPL manages to rendevous at Boathouse North. Because of the lack of engineers, it was decided that a group of civilians would stay behind to make room for them. Meanwhile, the remaining troops there will try to hold on. Several more Soviet units were killed in exchange for a battalion of panzer grenadiers.

A new program to rush build in the field repair depots at important locations has been started. This will mean the processing of minefields and civilians will be slowed but that can't be helped.

Day 3 - 4.00am
Pressure is mounting at Boathouse North and all the armoured units have been destroyed after repeated attacks. I doubt if the RPL has enough time to make a second run for them.

Following my desperate pleas, 3 additional squadrons of fighter-bombers were flown in from Poland.

Day 3 - 6.00am
The war take a brief pause as both sides prepare for the next day.

Day 3 - 8.00am
9 enemy battalions destroyed in the continuing battle for Boathouse North.

Day 3 - 10.00 -12.00am
Once again russian units continue to be salughtered by our desperate defenders.

Day 3 - 2.00pm
4 more battalions of panzer grenadiers arrive via Samland.

Defensive positions along the Pregel are almost ready and all four bridges will be fully protected by nightfall.

Day 3 - 4.00pm
The situation at boathouse North has become untenable. I have ordered the withdrawal by river of the last half battery of AA guns. All remaining artilley has been fired in a massive barrage to cover the retreat.

T-34s have made their way to the citadel and attacks are becoming more frequent.

Day 3 - 6.00pm
The survivors of Boathousenorth have made it away safely, the complex is now open for the taking.

Day3 - 8:00pm
20,000 civilians have now reached the safety of Germany.

Boathouse North is demolished by the Soviets after taking control. My command staff believes all remaining soviet forces will begin to smash themselves against our main defense line along the Pregel-Citadel axis.


Final line of defense.

Day3 - 10:00am-12.00am
Still holding ground despite repeated attacks on all fronts the entire day. The defensive positions have been well planned and should hold for atleast another two days. One combat engineer battalion arrived in the night by ship and has been put to work to fortify the newly built jetty. Having completed defensive works on the main line, we are now preparing a secondary line stretching from boathouse south to Fort Freidrich - now named the Fredrich line.

Day 4 - 6am
Our crack Panzer regiment which has been taking the brunt of attacks on Hill 333 was finally lost, the first casualties in over 24 hours. There are three remaining battalions stationed there but losses will increase from here on.

Day 4 - 8am
A new local command post has been set up on the south bank of the Pregel to supply the entire line of fortifications.

Day 4 - 10.00am
Russians mount increasing pressure on Hill 333 and several units are losing integrity.

Day 4 - 12noon

Headlines from newspaper in Berlin.
THE GREATEST MARITIME DISASTER IN HUMAN HISTORY

In the cold Baltic Sea, a soviet submarine sinks the 25,484-ton converted liner Wilhelm Gustloff crowded with refugees and wounded soldiers. Well over 6,000 refugees lose their lives, or 4 times the number killed in the Titanic disaster.

First soviet units are seen along the Pregel line. Massive air attacks on the Citadel take place.

Day 4 - 8.00pm
Attrition is slowly taking its toll. One more battalion of tanks was lost at the Citadel. Many others battalions are running on skeleton crews. Tower Dona easily repelled an infantry charge against it with carefully positioned artillery.

Day 4 - 10.00pm
One more battalion of Panthers lost on hill 333 in spite of their hull down positions. The situation is desperate but they have been given orders to hold the hill till 50,000 civilians are shipped or they die.

Day 5 - the whole day
Fighting took place throughout the day and the force on Hill 333 has been reduced to a half battalion of panzer grenadiers and a few AA guns.

The situation in Koenigsberg is just as desperate, there has been only a lone 88mm battery holding the Citadel throughout the day. The Citadel is completely surrounded (see picture) and there is no escape. Fortunately the command staff had been shifted to the Dockyards as a precautionary measure yesterday. As midnight approached, the Citadel radioed that all battle units have been neutralised. It will not be long now.

The three bridges leading south from Koenigsberg will form the new line of defense (Friedrich Line) but it will not hold for long as the Soviets may mass their attack on any single one of them. All engineers have been asked to report to the Harbour area to prepare the final evacuation perimeter.

Several more infantry units isolated from Army Group Samland during the counter-attack two days ago have subordinated comand to myself in excahnge for an eventual escape on a liner. They came too late to reinforce any of the forward areas and instead they are being assigned as reserves to the Pregel and Freidrich lines.

Together with 3 squadrons of FW190 fighter bombers which arrived, I am confident that we will be able to evacuate the majority of civilians safely. I have waited all day for a chance to requisition some heavier bombers to destroy the russian HQ but to no avail.

The headcount of escaped civilians reached 30,000 during the day and thanks to the increased thruput allowed by the new jetty we are almost reaching the 40,000 mark.


Aerial recon

Day 6- 2.00am
The Citadel and and thus west Koenigsberg have fallen. Volkssturm Commander SA-Fuhrer Wachtholz managed to send this last message " Overwhelming Soviets forces are almost upon us and the Citadel will soon fall. We know the fate of surrender and in any case we will fight to the last man to buy you as much time as possible. God have mercy on our souls." Radio contact to Berlin is lost and there will be no means to request for further reinforcements from now on.

Day 6- 4.00-6.00am
The final positioning of troops is complete. With the last reinforcements, 9 battalions - 7 Panzer Grenadier, 1 Infantry, 1 paratrooper plus two batteries - 1 Anti-tank and 1 AA battery now form the Friedrich line. The Pregel line is manned by 5 armoured battalions - Jagdpanzer IV(2) Panther(2) Panzer IV(1), 6 Infantry -Panzer Grenadier(3)Commando (1) Volkssturmn(2), and two battaries- 88mm(1) 75mm(1).

Day6- 8.00am
Aerial recon shows now advances on the Friedrich line. All haste has been made to organise the final batch of civilians before the evacuation of military assets. Civilians rescued has reached the 40,000 mark.

Day6- 8.00am
Brigade HQ at Hill 333 was destroyed along with all artillery assets. All survivors have been ordered to escape if they can.

Day6- 10.00am
Preparation are being made to abandon the Krupp factory south of Hill 333 and fall back to the Krupp bridge. Non essential forces have also been ordered to retreat to the Harbour.

Day6 - noon
The soviets next intentions are clear now. Concentrated attacks are evident against the Koenigsberg Cathedral and Tower Dona. As there are no fortification at the Cathedral, I have decided to let the forces there retreat to Fort Freidrich. Tower Donna has been reinforced with a battalion of assault guns by RPL from nearby positions as a precaution.

Day6 - 2.00pm
Nothing to report.

Day6 - 4.00pm
What is left of the Cathedral has been taken over by the enemy and they are probably pillaging its fixtures right now.

Day6 - 6.00pm
Retreating survivors of the battle for Hill 333 were cornered and wiped out.

24 GSSB reports the first sighting of Russian forces along the Friedrich line, a recon force.

Day6 8.00pm - midnight
Soviets forces begin to mass at the Southwest bridge leading from Koenigsberg. A Stuka squadron bassed at 24 GSSB has had initial success in bonmbing soviet columns as they line up for an assault.

Providing long range artillery support for gun Emplacement B on the Pregel is depleting our ammunition fast. We may not be able to hold it for much longer.

Day7 12.00am
Probing attacks along the entire frontier with no show of brute attacks so typical of the Russians. The only exceptions is the attempt to capture Tower Dona and Gun Emplacement B to its west. but we have yet to suffer casualties there.

Day7 4.00am
The huge minefield we placed around the Krupp factory is slowing down the western Russian column somewhat but they are simply plowing ahead with no regard for casualties.

Day7 6.00am
Finally 50,000 civilians have reached Germany. While we will still continue to evacuate civilians, the orderly evacuation of militart units will take place in parallel. Units still on the Samland peninsula which has been quiet for a few days will collapse back acrosss the river first.

Rather than engage the drfenses at Fort Freidrich, the local commander has reported that some russian infantry have slipped past in the night and are headed south. I have emplyed the limited air assets there to hunt them down and a new minefield has been laid to make that less likely to happen again.

Day7 8.00am
All logistic bases are no longer processing refugees. Skeleton staff shift their attention to minefields and artillery shells while the rest make their way to the harbour.

Day7 10.00am
The Krupp factory is now in Russian hands. All machinery was destroyed before evacuation. There is no artillery support for forces holding the Krupp bridge behind the factory and all forces to the west will abandon their positions and fall back to the harbour.

Day7 - noon
A wermacht battalion makes contact with Russian paratroopers while pulling back from the Hindenberg memorial to the Railway station.

Day7 - 2.00pm
Russians attack with ferocity at the Krupp bridge. We lost our commandoes, all panzers and half the 88mm guns holding the bridge. Without artillery, the remaining forces cannot survive much longer. What an oversight on my part. The garrison from the Kolleigum is being rushed forward to relieve them.

Fort Friedrich lost a battalion of grenadiers but repelled all attacks.

Day7 - 4.00pm -6.00pm
Status unchanged by russian some forces seem to have slipped through the net or managed a river crossing unnoticed. Soviet tanks seen near the Hindenberg Memorial and the rear of Fort Freidrich.

Day7 8.00pm - midnight
Both the Railway and Kollegium were both attacked by bombers. Attacks have concentrated on the Krupp bridge and Pregel Gun Emplacement A. Both are close to breaking point.


defensive position at the Harbour Area

Day8 midnight-2.00am
Emplacement A on the Pregel has been rendered inoperative although the defensive positioned is still being manned so that our artillery fire can be directed from across the river.

Day8 4.00am - one more battalion of Panzers lost at Tower Dona. With Gun Emplacement A no longer operational, the bridge behind it is coming under increasing attack. Self-propelled assault guns are being shiped over from a nearby unit by RPL. All troops have moved off our half of the Samland peninsula.

Day 8 6.00am
The Krupp bridge has fallen, the signal for the collapse back to the Dockyards. Units along the Pregel will be evacuated via RPL across the river and fall back to the BoatHouse South and then the Harbour. Units from the Friedrich line will fall back to the Jetty.

Day 8 8.00am
Russians enter the now empty Railway station. Emplacement A and Fort Freidrich evacuated. One Commando Battalion covering the retreat was lost. One battery of 75mm guns lost at Tower Dona. The Tower will be held till all other positions are evacuated.

Day 8 8.00am
Russians enter the now empty Kollegium. Russian units which crossed the Krupp Bridge are begining to flank the remaining defenders.

Day 8 10.00am
The remaining RPL squadron is busy ferrying survivors back across to our side of the Pregel. Thereafter, they will have to make it to the evacuation area by themselves.

Day 8 noon
All remaining forward positions are being abandoned simultaeneously.

Day 8 6.00pm
Russians enter Tower Dona. Emplacement B continues firing to provide some cover. Almost all units have made it safely back to Boathouse South, the chosen rearguard area.

Day 8 8.00pm
Emplacement B is silenced. 23 GSSB, the logistics base for the Pregel area is overun.

Day 8 10.pm
Evacuation takes place at full speed using the three remaining liners. The Jetty will get priority as it is less well defended. Numerous randomly placed minefileds continue to slowdown the advance of the Russians. There are 11 units at Boathouse South, 8 units at the Jetty, 13 units at the Dockyards and 9 units at sea on the way to Germany.

Day 9 8.00am
The first advanced russian units reach the Harbour area from the west. Airstrikes begin at Boathouse South.

Day 9 4.00pm
Lighthouse lost.

Day 9 - 8.00pm
One battalion of Assault Guns lost at the Boathouse easily. The flat terrain is not well suited for a defensive battle. All units have been ordered to disengage and breakout of the envelopment under cover of artillery.

Day9 10.00pm all remaining units make it out of the Boathouse area.

Day10 12.am
The final minefields are bypassed and Boathouse belongs to the Russians.
One (empty) liner was lost to a submarine.

Day10 2.00am Shelling of the Jetty begins.

Day 10 8.00am
Russians arrive at the Harbour area in full force and attack from the North and West. Losses are starting to mount in spite of our 5 to 1 kills. However there are only two liners left. One tank Battalion was just lost.

Day 10 10.00am
Occasional loss of unit continues througout the rest of the day. 2 grenadier units were lost defending the Dockyards. 80,000 evacuated at last count.

Day 10 6.00pm The Memonite Church, long abandoned, has fallen into Soviet hands

Day 10 8.00pm
Our last battalion of tank destroyers and battery of AA guns was lost when the forward brigade HQ was overun. Our only area of control is the dockyards. Stukas are kep continuously in the air inan attempt to thin down the attacking forces.

Day 11 12.00am
The last layer of minefields have been cleared and the Dockyards are open to attack from all directions. There are still four battalions awaiting evacuation.

Day 11 10.00pm
The Dockyards are overun with the loss of 2 infantry Bn, Grenadier Bn, 75mm battery and 2 Luftwaffe squadrons even as the last evacuation convoy is steaming in. In total 90,000 evacuated.


Having delayed the Soviets for as long as he could, General Lasch surrenders 'Fortress Koenigsburg' on Monday April 9th 1945. The great evacuation contiues at Danzig and other ports. Lasch is condemed to death in absentia in Berlin.

Units which survived

Infantry Bn 11 of 25
Paratrooper Bn 2 of 3
Motor Infantry Bn 4 of 6
Marine Bn 0 of 3
Scout Coy 3 of 4

Panzer IV Bn 1 of 6
Tiger Bn 0 of 3
Panther Bn 0 of 6
Panzer Grenadier 0 of 9
Jagdpanzer 1 of 3

75mm Bat 2 of 4
SP Flak Bat 2 of 6
Combat Engineers 8 of 10

This was a great idea! Is 255 the max count for casualties?

It's fixed now. I made the changes to a copy of the original from the game, and that works.

Originally posted by Boco
This was a great idea! Is 255 the max count for casualties?

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I don't think so, probably it was just pure luck that the two biggest numbers were 255. Actually this is the first time I played past day 5 so I'm not really sure. I'll experiment a bit to find out.

255 is the max casualty count in my experience.

(which is built on playing RF more than once )