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Michael Giacchino - Taking Stalingrad

Playing CoD1 made me think of doing something for APW, depicting an equivalent battle during its own World War Two: the battle of Novosibirsk. Here we have three Siberians taking position in a damaged apartment building, including a hadrosaur on a Maxim M1910 and a dragon with a Fedorov Avtomat, one of the world's first operational automatic rifles; they are all aiming across a great open square where Soviet troops are dug in. In said square, one can see dead/leafless trees, trenches, the wrecks of a Soviet T-34, a Siberian Valentine tank, and a Siberian Kegresse half-track, and the wing of a Siberian P-39 Airacobra sticking out of the ground.

Waged from the summer of 1940 to the early months of 1943, the city was fought over between the Siberian Republic and the Russian Soviet Socialist Federal Republic due to its location on the Ob River. The Siberians had previously smashed across the border in spite of the harsh winter, crossing the Yenisey River and seizing control of Krasnoyarsk in record time; this owed both due to the Soviets concentrating their troops west and the tactics implemented by younger officers who had spent time with their Western counterparts and sought to incorporate the doctrines from those armies. The usage of radio, massed armor, artillery, and air support, and shock infantry tactics influenced by the German Stormtroops proved effective against the scattered border units that were quickly overwhelmed, forcing the Soviets to halt their offensives in Ukraine, the Baltic, and Iran to move divisions and corps east to halt the Siberians. Still, the Siberians reached the outskirts of Novosibirsk by June 1940 and the Soviets were determined to hold the city at any costs, "Not One Step Back" was the decree from the Kremlin that demanded the Red Army stand its ground. The battle to take the city proved to be a difficult one but by February 1943, the Siberians and Mongolians had succeeded in driving the Soviets out and were now able to cross the Ob and traverse into the RSFSR's heartland. The Siberian Army Command's next targets were the cities of Omsk and Nizhnevartovsk as well as the factories on both sides of the Urals that produced materiel for the Soviets while the generals responsible for commanding the city's defense were subsequently court-martialed.

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Michael Giacchino - Taking Stalingrad

Playing CoD1 made me think of doing something for APW, depicting an equivalent battle during its own World War Two: the battle of Novosibirsk. Here we have three Siberians taking position in a damaged apartment building, including a hadrosaur on a Maxim M1910 and a dragon with a Fedorov Avtomat, one of the world's first operational automatic rifles; they are all aiming across a great open square where Soviet troops are dug in. In said square, one can see dead/leafless trees, trenches, the wrecks of a Soviet T-34, a Siberian Valentine tank, and a Siberian Kegresse half-track, and the wing of a Siberian P-39 Airacobra sticking out of the ground.

Waged from the summer of 1940 to the early months of 1943, the city was fought over between the Siberian Republic and the Russian Soviet Socialist Federal Republic due to its location on the Ob River. The Siberians had previously smashed across the border in spite of the harsh winter, crossing the Yenisey River and seizing control of Krasnoyarsk in record time; this owed both due to the Soviets concentrating their troops west and the tactics implemented by younger officers who had spent time with their Western counterparts and sought to incorporate the doctrines from those armies. The usage of radio, massed armor, artillery, and air support, and shock infantry tactics influenced by the German Stormtroops proved effective against the scattered border units that were quickly overwhelmed, forcing the Soviets to halt their offensives in Ukraine, the Baltic, and Iran to move divisions and corps east to halt the Siberians. Still, the Siberians reached the outskirts of Novosibirsk by June 1940 and the Soviets were determined to hold the city at any costs, "Not One Step Back" was the decree from the Kremlin that demanded the Red Army stand its ground. The battle to take the city proved to be a difficult one but by February 1943, the Siberians and Mongolians had succeeded in driving the Soviets out and were now able to cross the Ob and traverse into the RSFSR's heartland. The Siberian Army Command's next targets were the cities of Omsk and Nizhnevartovsk as well as the factories on both sides of the Urals that produced materiel for the Soviets while the generals responsible for commanding the city's defense were subsequently court-martialed.