Schematic plan · World War II (Eastern Front)

Battle of Brody (Phase II)

15 July 1944
USSR
Victory for USSR

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.

USSR (Sov 15th Rifle Corps, 38,500 men under Mg Tertishniy) attacked Germany (Ger 349th Inf Div(+), 12,900 men under unrecorded commanders) in USSR. The CAA Database of Battles records 18 hours of fighting on a front of 7 km, a frontal attack against prepared defense, and that USSR won. Losses: USSR 1,750 (5%), Germany 490 (4%).

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

Unit	Arm	Men
USSR left wing	Infantry	7,788
USSR centre	Infantry	10,384
USSR right wing	Infantry	7,788
USSR reserve	Infantry	6,490
USSR artillery (718 guns)	Artillery	5,775
USSR armour (55 tanks)	Armour	275
Mg Tertishniy	Commander	—
In this plan		38,500

Germany

Unit	Arm	Men
Germany left wing	Infantry	2,602
Germany centre	Infantry	3,469
Germany right wing	Infantry	2,602
Germany reserve	Infantry	2,168
Germany artillery (103 guns)	Artillery	1,545
Germany armour (103 tanks)	Armour	515
Germany command	Commander	—
In this plan		12,901

What the sources report

	USSR	Germany
Strength, this plan	38,500	12,900
Losses, this plan	1,750	490

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 507, “Brody (Phase Ii)”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 18 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Flat, Heavily wooded
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Prepared defense
Front width: 7 km (attacker), 7 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
USSRattacker	38,500	1,750	0	718	Frontal attack; Penetration
Germanydefender	12,900	490	0	103	Defensive/offensive plan; Frontal attack; Withdrew

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

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 507 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.

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.