Battle of Prokhorovka Battle of Prokhorovka The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, southeast of Kursk in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War. Taking place on the Eastern Front, the engagement was part of the wider Battle of Kursk, and occurred when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht in one of the largest tank battles in military history. In April 1943, the German leadership began preparing for Operation Citadel, with the objective of enveloping and destroying the Soviet forces in the Kursk salient,
Tank Battle Tank Battle Tank Battle is a Milton Bradley board game of strategy where players attempt to out-guess and out-maneuver their opponent in a contest of armored warfare, and includes the extra strategy brought by fuel and ammunition dumps as well as anti-tank guns and mines. The playing pieces are modeled after actual World War II tanks of the Americans and Germans, these being the M4A3 Sherman Medium Tank and the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther Ausf. G. Milton Bradley touted this game as "The game of planning and strategy". The players take turns moving tanks across a 10x10 grid of 100 numbered