1942 · Central Stalingrad, USSR: a four-storey block on the east side of 9 January Square
Pavlov's House
Your role: You are the leader given the four-storey block on the east side of the square by 7th Company, 3rd Battalion, 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment, 13th Guards Rifle Division. At first you are the sergeant taking the building with three men; once reinforcements arrive you command the strongpoint garrison together with the machine-gun platoon commander. In reality those two men made the decisions in turn. Here you make them all.
Commander's intent: Turn the block on the east side of the square into a strongpoint, cover the gap across 9 January Square with fire, and stop the Germans reaching the Volga this way.
One decision from this battle · Tanks and infantry on the square
Mid-October. Since morning the shelling has been bringing down the gable. The neighbouring building to the south has burned and collapsed under German attack, so this block alone now covers the south end of the square. During the morning a few German tanks came out along the road west of the square with infantry. They stop at the edge of the square and shoot at the windows one by one. The anti-tank rifles are upstairs, and mines and wire lie in front of the square.
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