"Tiger, Panther and Elefant Tanks, Oh My!" Topic

"The World War II Battle of Kursk is crack for war-gamers. What lover of historical simulations can resist the largest clash of armor in history? A battle that featured tanks with predatory names like Tiger and Panther? Two massive armies from two ruthless totalitarian regimes locked in a struggle to the death?

Panzer Battles: Kursk Southern Flank covers the southern half of the German offensive at the Soviet city of Kursk in July 1943. It is the first of a new series of games from war-gaming granddaddy John Tiller, a PhD in mathematics whose design team has been churning out dozens of historical games since the mid-1990s.

"The thought of it turns my stomach," Hitler said before the Battle of Kursk. His nausea was not induced by guilt or squeamishness, but nervousness at how the fate of Nazi Germany rested on the outcome…"
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Armand

I'm no expert on this, but my understanding is that the Elephants where with Model on the northern front, not the southern front? Does anyone know why they are referenced in the blurb? (Though from 'Demolishing the Myth' I understand that the Soviets claimed to knock out several Elephants on the southern front!)

By memory Elephants were used in the Russian and Italian Front.

Amicalement
Armand

there were no elephants at kursk. There were 90 ferdinands. ferdinands are elephants without machine guns. They were used in the battle for ponyri.

Ferdinands were only used on the northern side of the salient with the 9th army of Army Group Center.

TomT