Description

Conflicts: Demyansk Pocket 1942 is a turnbased strategy game set on the Eastern Front during the SecondWorld War.

Historical background: During the attacks of the winter of1941-1942 the Soviet Red Army managed to encircle 100,000 Germansoldiers holding the front line in Demyansk, located half-waybetween Moscow and Leningrad. After receiving reinforcements,Wehrmacht unleashed an offensive from Staraya Russa. The purposewas not to evacuate the encircled units, but to re-open a landconnection to the out-of-supply forces in a hope to continuecontrolling the area in a preparation for the future campaigns.Meanwhile, the encircled units, inadequacy supplied by Luftwaffe,engaged in a cutthroat battle for the life or death. One of theencircled German units was the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, whichearned its elite status in the fierce battles leading the defenseof the pocket - a process in which the unit suffered 80%casualties. However, the German victory in Demyansk in 1942 pavedway for a major German miscalculation a year later, when 300,000German soldiers were encircled in Stalingrad in 1943, and based onthe experiences from Demyansk the commanders were ordered to waitfor the help instead of breaking out.

Game: You take the command of both the encircled units and thefresh divisions attempting to re-establish a land route fromStaraya Russa to Demyansk as quickly as possible. To have a chanceto seize the top spot in the Hall of Fame you need to lead unitsthrough the Red Army rifle divisions as quickly as possible - andmaintain the newly opened route for 9 consecutive turns. All thiswhile fiercely defending the cut-off Demyansk area with poorlysupplied Wehrmacht and auxiliary units.

Objective: The game is over after you re-establish a connectionbetween the cities of Staraya Russa and Demyansk - and maintainthat connection for 9 consecutive turns.

Settings: Various options are available to alter the look of thegaming experience: Switch between terrain color themes, changedifficulty level, choose icon set for units (NATO or REAL) andcities (Round, Shield, or Square), decide what is drawn on the map,change font and hexagon sizes.

In order to be a victorious general, you must learn to coordinateyour attacks in two ways. First, as adjacent units give support toan attacking unit, keep your units in groups in order to gain localsuperiority. Secondly, it is rarely a good idea to use brute forcewhen it is possible to encircle the enemy and cut off its supplylines instead.

To get a sense of how Conflicts: Demyansk Pocket 1942 works, tryout the free 10-turn version at http://bit.ly/1cMa4zp

Join your fellow strategy gamers in saving the German troopsfrom the encirclement!

Check out all the campaigns in the Conflicts strategy gameseries: http://bit.ly/zPzkrA

Conflict-Series has offered highly rated Android-only strategygames since 2011. The campaigns are based on the time-tested gamingelements TBS (turn-based strategy) enthusiasts are familiar withfrom both the classic PC war games and legendary tabletop boardgames. I also want to thank the fans for all the well thought-outsuggestions over the years which have allowed these campaigns toimprove at a much higher rate than what any indie developer coulddream of. if you have feedback about the Conflict-Series please useemail, this way we can have a constructive back and forthconversion without all the limits of the store's comment system. Inaddition, because I have huge number of projects on multiplestores, it’s just not very sensible to spend handful of hours eachday going through hundreds of pages spread all over the Internet tosee if somebody has posted a question somewhere -- just send me anemail and I will answer to it as soon as I'm online. Thanks forunderstanding!