        The Armored Roadblock (June 1941).  This is a scenario for "Steel
Panthers" derived from page 76 of "Small Unit Actions During the German
Campaign in Russia", 1953, published by the U.S. Army Center of Military
History.  The German 6th Armored Division reached the town of Rossienie in
Southern Lithuania and established two bridgeheads across the Dubysa River.
A single KV tank moved astride the road from Rossienie to the bridgeheads.
The Germans committed a succession of forces for 48 hours before they were
able to neutralize the single tank.  The tank never moved during the entire
period (other than rotating its turret).

        Initially, the Germans thought this was a prelude to an attack on their
bridgeheads from the rear.  Forces were relocated to check this eventuality, but
nothing happened for an entire day.  The next day 12 supply trucks were
destroyed moving from Rossienie to the bridgeheads.  The Germans moved a battery
of 50mm AT guns to 1,000 yards of the KV, later 600 yards.  They obtained 8
direct hits.  After 2 guns were destroyed, the rest were withdrawn.  Next, an
88mm AT gun was moved to 900 yards, but was destroyed.  Then, with supplies
running low at the bridgehead, an engineer section moved up under cover of
darkness and set charges on the tracks.  The next day, the tank was still
functioning.  A fake attack of tanks from the bridgehead was launched to cover
moving up an 88mm AT gun from Rossienie.  This gun obtained 7 direct rear hits.
When the tank gun elevated, the Germans moved up to the tank.  Only 2 88mm
shells had penetrated the tank.  Then the KV gun began to move.  Some Germans
scattered.  Grenades were finally used to silence the vehicle.

        This scenario is compressed and needs to be unzipped.  Its component
files need to be renamed to "scen0xx" where xx is the slot you wish to place
the scenario (eg, scen044.dat, scen044.txt, scen044.cmt).  NOTE: Slot numbers
00-041 are used by SP. These files are placed in the subdirectory "scen", ie,
"\steel\scen\" To simulate the scenario, I reduced the KV tank speed to 0. To
play historically, forces should be committed piecemeal.  The more turns the
KV survives, the greater the Russian victory.  This scenario is submitted for
SP players' enjoyment.  Feel free to edit it and/or post it elsewhere.  As I
am new to this, any critical comments or suggestions are welcome.  I am posting
it on Compuserve (GAMERS, LIB 16) and GEnie (Scorpio - Steel Panthers).

        -- Joseph P. Molnar (70614,1347) (J.Molnar6)
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