22,000 men which held off an estimated 136,000 Soviet troops and the game simply cannot portray that accurately without breaking the battle down into a series of smaller events so this scenario is an attempt to recreate the general feel of the battle* In the small area represented by this map the Germans commanded a force of just over. To truly recreate this battle correctly it should be broken down into a mini-campaign but even that would be difficult. This scenario compresses the battle to one event. During World War II the German army built up powerful defensive positions in the Sinimaed Hills.* The first defensive structures at Sinimaed were built as early as during the Great Northern War (1700-1721). The Sinimaed Hills were a good defensive position to control the Narva-Tallinn road on the isthmus between the sea and the great bogs to the south. The most intense battles took place between 27 and 30 July with the Sinimaed Hills passing from one side to the other many times.* The first Soviet infantry attacks on the hills were made on 26 July. The Soviet artillery and air forces began bombing the Sinimaed Hills on 25 July. Filipp Starikov along with independent artillery, air and armoured vehicle units.* ![]() Ivan Fedyuninsky and the 8th Army commanded by Lt. On the attacking Soviet side were the rifle corps and divisions subordinate to the Russian 2nd Shock Army commanded by Lt. ![]() As well there were units of the 4th SS Brigade Nederland, made up of Dutch volunteers as well as the Flemish SS Battalion Langemarck and the Walloon SS Battalion Wallonien along with other support units.* Roughly half of the infantry consisted of local Estonian conscripts of the 20th Estonian SS Division who were highly motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation. The German defences were made up of troops of many different European nationalities and included the 11th SS Division Nordland made up of Norwegians and Danes. In the Sinimaed Hills, the III German Panzer Corps was Commanded by Waffen-SS Obergruppenfuhrer Felix Steiner. Germany (Defend) vs Soviet Russia (Assault)* BATTLE LOCATION: The Sinimaed Hills about 20 km west of Narva, Estonia*
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