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Schematic plan · World War II (Eastern Front)

Battle of Brody (Phase I)

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.
Flat, Heavily wooded groundCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveGunsCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveGunsArmour02 km4 kmN

USSR (Sov 15th Rifle Corps, 39,000 men under Mg Tertishniy) attacked Germany (Ger 913th Inf Rgt(+), 3,300 men under unrecorded commanders) in USSR. The CAA Database of Battles records 16.8 hours of fighting on a front of 5.5 km, a frontal attack against prepared defense and fortified defense, and that USSR won. Losses: USSR 980 (3%), Germany 720 (22%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

USSR

Mg Tertishniy

UnitArmMen
USSR left wingInfantry7,915
USSR centreInfantry10,554
USSR right wingInfantry7,915
USSR reserveInfantry6,596
USSR artillery (730 guns)Artillery5,850
USSR armour (34 tanks)Armour170
Mg TertishniyCommander—
In this plan39,000

Germany

UnitArmMen
Germany left wingInfantry673
Germany centreInfantry898
Germany right wingInfantry673
Germany reserveInfantry561
Germany artillery (44 guns)Artillery495
Germany commandCommander—
In this plan3,300

What the sources report

USSRGermany
Strength, this plan39,0003,300
Losses, this plan980720

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 506, “Brody (Phase I)”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
16.8 hours
Winner
the attacker
Terrain
Flat, Heavily wooded
Weather
Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Prepared defense, Fortified defense
Front width
5.5 km (attacker), 5.5 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
USSRattacker39,0009800730Frontal attack; Penetration
Germanydefender3,300720044Defensive/offensive plan; Frontal attack; Withdrew with heavy losses

Attacker’s advantages morale +1 · momentum +1 · initiative +1 · air superiority +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.