I will find time to update.

update please

Zaporozhye*

Great job. Look forward to more. Thanks for making it.

@Eagletanker
Sure, that’s why I’ve set my main character in the game as an infantry unit, with only 2 Ferdinands joining the battle much later as dedicated anti-armor forces.

Except even in that case, the numbers still wouldn't add up. Peter brings up the divisional reports from both sides, and the formation facing the Ferdinands didn't lose that many tanks across it's entire front. On the days specified, Soviet AFV losses total were 44 knocked out or burned up. If counting Just tanks, it would be 17 confirmed losses with a unknown amount of additional losses coming from the 25 on the 27th, stretched out across the front of an entire army, which is a lot of territory for 8 Ferdinands to cover.

The Nazi's were over claiming (as they usually did) here, and if you want to reflect a realistic course of the battle, you'd need to have some stug's and AT guns doing the main fighting with a few KVs and some T-34s while one or two Ferdinands show up for a short time before wandering off somewhere else.

@Eagletanker
"Three 'Ferdinands' destroyed 54 Soviet tanks." To be honest, even in comparison to German military records, this figure is highly exaggerated. The 30th Army's report on the 27th recorded that, on the 26th-27th, the entire army, not just the 387th Division, only destroyed and damaged a total of 49 enemy tanks. There were no additional reports after the 28th to supplement the results from the 26th-27th. The author believes that the accounts in military history are as exaggerated as Knight's Cross recommendations by Kretschmer; on the one hand, they are descriptions with exaggerations; on the other hand, two 'Ferdinands' under the 'Schwerpunkt' cluster also participated in intense armored combat in another direction on the 26th-27th. The so-called result of 54 Soviet tanks destroyed is the total result of the 'Ferdinands' in two directions.

@Eagletanker
Great, thank you for letting me know. However, the claim of destroying 54 vehicles did exist, even though it may have been exaggerated. If you read the source letter I provided, the author also acknowledges the possibility of exaggeration in the reported results:

Hi, just to let you know, the ferdinands didn't actually engage anywhere near 54 tanks in this battle.

https://www.tankarchives.ca/2017/12/cheating-at-statistics-21-fudging-franz.html

of course, create whatever you want, I just expressed my point of view

@Воин дорог
Certainly, I create not to please others. I aim to produce a narrative that is logical and close to real combat, as the true essence of battle scenes is hard to capture through books alone. Therefore, both offense and defense should follow historical trajectories.

I hope many people will like the mission, but I don’t like defensive missions