Death Ride: Kursk - 3rd Panzer Expansion

From the Publisher:

YOU NEED THE DEATH RIDE KURSK GROSS DEUTSCHLAND BASE GAME TO USE THIS PRODUCT!

This game includes the Command and Control and Fire Support Enhancements which mean you don’t need to buy anything else to have detailed command and fire support operations if you want them.

3 rd Panzer was not the largest German division involved in the battle.  3 rd Panzer’s mission was to be the left flank guard for the XLVIII PzK.  It was also responsible to cross the Pena River, which was impossible until GD made the crossing further north on a narrower point of the river.  Elements of the 332ID were moved in to 3 rd Panzer’s area in order to allow 3 rd Panzer to close up on GD.  One regiment of 332ID holds the southern bank of the river for most of the battle.  The Division has components of all arms and is an average strength panzer division at this time in the war.  It is organized the same as most panzer divisions.  It has a Panzer Regiment with 1 Panzer Battalion, 2 Panzer Grenadier Regiments each with 2 Infantry Battalions, a Panzer Artillery Regiment with 3 Battalions, a Reconnaissance Battalion, PanzerJager Battalion, Anti-Aircraft Battalion, and Pionere Battalion.  YOU have the ability to task organize the Division to make each Battalion a more potent combat weapon by cross-attaching infantry to the armor and vice versa, or even engineers or recon to these Battalions.  Although the panzer regiment has only 1 battalion it has an organization with companies that 22 tanks each instead of the normal 17.  This helps boost the divisions’ armored component to near around 80 tanks.  It also has 4 companies versus the standard 3 companies.

3rd Panzer - comes with (in Full Color):

(4) Map Sections of the Pena River Area of Operations

Supplemental Rules Specific to 3rd Panzer

Order of Battle Cards

Task Organization Charts for Each Major German and Red Army Formation

Approximately 1800 Unit Counters and Markers

Reference (Gamers HQ):

Grognard Simulations is known for their detailed and fantastic rulesets and their attention to detail concerning the gaming material, but because of the way they produce their games, You can´t compare the quality of the boxes with it from big companies like GMT or Compass Games: They are only for holding the huge amount of material, but not as a piece of art by itself (they are made from thin cardboard). This games are, like the name of the company indicates, for "real Grognards !"

English Boxed Version.

Death Ride Kursk is the most ambitious project GSI has undertaken.  The project is a series of monster games encompassing the entire southern front of the Kursk operation.  The series is broken down into 3 separate and distinct sub-sets of 3 games each.  That means the total series is comprised of 9 games.  Each game has a different number of maps and focuses on a different German Division.  The 3 sets are broken down into the 3 different Korps Areas of Operation (XLVIII PzK, IISS PzK, and III PzK).  The image states "The Monster Game of Monsters".  What this means is that each game in the series is a monster game of its own.  Putting them all together, and you can, is a Monster Game of Monster Games.

Each Game Set has a Base Game that includes the rules, charts, and other game system components that you will need to play the game.  The other games in the Game Set are expansions and need the Base Game to be played.