A little over 100 years ago, the advancing troops of the Russian 1st Army met Maximilian von Prittwitz's 8.Armee at the town of
Gumbinnen in East Prussia. It was the first German offensive of the the war in the east. Strategically, the battle was a German defeat. Tactically the Russians certainly didn't shine, but they held long enough, and did enough damage to the German XVII Corps to make von Prittzwitz lose his nerve and retreat. His corps commanders did not generally agree that they had been beaten.
Courtesy of the new
World War I Campaigns game from John Tiller Software.
East Prussia '14, I'm going to try my hand at managing a better outcome for 8.Armee.
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| 8.Armee positions the morning of August 20th, 1914. IArmeekorps and XVII.Armeekorps are already in contact |
