Leningrad

[ADB_Iceman]

Something to think about if an historical feel is a goal of WITE 2. Leningrad is not an ordinary dense urban combat area. Certainly there is the Neva, which can be crossed to the East and an western attack approach utilized to seize the city. But Leningrad has multiple very hard urban area, The area around the Hermitage for example forms interlocking and layered waterways with areas requiring moving in the open against dominate high terrain, and the Peter and Paul Fortress that dominate a small island. These areas represent multiple water crossings with dominate high terrain features that make the area much more costly to assault than your typical house to house combat made infamous at Stalingrad. I am not sure how to simulate this in the game but taking Leningrad by force against any resistance would be quite costly. It is why Hitler chose to siege and it lasted 900 days.