The Axis flanks were overrun and the 6th Army was cut off and surrounded in the Stalingrad area. On 19 November, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the Romanian armies protecting the 6th Army's flanks. By mid-November, the Germans, at great cost, had pushed the Soviet defenders back into narrow zones along the west bank of the river. The battle degenerated into house-to-house fighting as both sides poured reinforcements into the city. The attack was supported by intense Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. On 4 August, the Germans launched an offensive by using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. Germany, already operating on dwindling fuel supplies focused its efforts on moving deeper into Soviet territory and taking the oil fields at any cost. Whoever controlled Stalingrad would have access to the oil fields of the Caucasus and control of the Volga.
Stalingrad was strategically important to both sides as a major industrial and transport hub on the Volga River. The victory at Stalingrad energized the Red Army and shifted the balance of power in the favour of the Soviets. Today, the Battle of Stalingrad is universally regarded as the turning point in the European Theatre of war, as it forced the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German High Command) to withdraw considerable military forces from other areas in occupied Europe to replace German losses on the Eastern Front. The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle to take place during the Second World War and is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties.
The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, with the battle being the epitome of urban warfare. So, if you’re looking for our ‘official’ review of Cauldrons of War – Barbarossa, Joe’s preview still stands as our official verdict.The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed to Volgograd) in Southern Russia. We will update this page if anything prescient emerges about the review build that differs from the preview version we played, but the main changes seemed to be last minute bug fixing and improvements. Since the game was released barely a couple of weeks after our preview, we decided not to do another full article talking about the game. I’m impressed with the scope of Cauldrons of War: Barbarossa and with the way it tries to wrangle with important moral and strategic decisions, and with a price tag of only $5.69 CAD, you owe it to yourself to support a unique, interesting, and strategically deep wargame. Thankfully, the developer is very active on discord and on the steam forums and is both releasing fixes and adding additional content at a rapid pace. The game is regardless extremely playable. There are no true animations, there are some issues with fonts not appearing correctly, some spelling mistakes, and there are still bugs to work out. It was developed by a single individual and it shows. You couldn’t describe Cauldrons as a AAA title. Our writer, Joe Fonseca, summarised as such: CoW was released on September 25th, 2020 but around a week before that we did a preview of the game when it was still in Steam Early Access.
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