Kursk: The Order of Battle: Part 1

This month sees the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, so I have been reading a little, and thought I'd share some info distilled from the internet:

Order of Battle Kursk: Part 1 The German Forces
The Protagonists

  

The Germans' goal during Citadel was to pinch off a large salient in the Eastern Front that extended 70 miles toward the west.

Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Army Group Center would attack from the north flank of the bulge, with Colonel General Walther Model's Ninth Army leading the effort, General Hans Zorn's XLVI Panzer Corps on the right flank and Maj. Gen. Josef Harpe's XLI Panzer Corps on the left.

General Joachim Lemelsen's XLVII Panzer Corps planned to drive toward Kursk and meet up with Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Army Group South, Col. Gen. Hermann Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army and the Kempf Army, commanded by General Werner Kempf.

Opposing the German forces were the Soviet Central Front, led by General Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, and the Voronezh Front, led by General Nikolai F. Vatutin.

The Central Front, with the right wing strengthened by Lt. Gen. Nikolai P. Pukhov's Thirteenth Army and Lt. Gen. I.V. Galinin's Seventeenth Army, was to defend the northern sector.

 To the south, the Voronezh Front faced the German Army Group South with three armies and two in reserve. The Sixth Guards Army, led by Lt. Gen. Mikhail N. Chistyakov, and the Seventh Guards Army, led by Lt. Gen. M. S. Shumilov, held the center and left wing.

East of Kursk, Col. Gen. Ivan S. Konev's Steppe Military District (renamed Steppe Front on July 10, 1943) was to hold German breakthroughs, then mount the counteroffensive.

Grammatical note: 
"ß " is the German letter for the double "s "sound : "ss"; not pronounced as a "B"
I.e. It was General Walter Weiß (Weiss: (White); not Weib (which is Wife)

Part 1
German Commanders

Army Group Centre (Günther von Kluge)

§  2nd Panzer Army (Erich-Heinrich Clößner) 

§  9th Army (Walther Model)

§  2nd Army (Walter Weiß)

§  4 Army Group Reserve

Army Group South (Erich von Manstein)

§  4th Panzer Army (Hermann Hoth)

§  Army Detachment Kempf (Werner Kempf)

§  Army Group Reserve

Luftwaffe

• Luftflotte 4 (4th Air Fleet: Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen)
• VIII Fliegerkorps (8th Air Corps)

•  Luftflotte 6 (6th Air Fleet: Robert Ritter von Greim) 
• 1. Flieger Division (1st Air Division)

ARMY GROUP CENTRE 

(GÜNTHER VON KLUGE)

2nd Panzer Army 

(Erich-Heinrich Clößner)

 

XXXV Corps 

(Lothar Rendulic)

 

34th Infantry Division

LIII Corps (Friedrich Gollwitzer)

208th Infantry Division

25th Panzergrenadier Division

LV Corps (Erich Jaschke)

110th Infantry Division

9th Army (Walther Model)

XX Corps (Rudolf Freiherr von Roman)

45th Infantry Division

XLVI Panzer Corps (Hans Zorn)

7th Infantry Division

102nd Infantry Division

258th Infantry Division

XLI Panzer Corps (Josef Harpe)

18th Panzer Division

86th Infantry Division

292nd Infantry Division

XLVII Panzer Corps (Joachim Lemelsen)

2nd Panzer Division

9th Panzer Division

20th Panzer Division

6th Infantry Division

XXIII Corps (Johannes Frießner)

216th Infantry Division

78th Assault Division

Army Reserve

4th Panzer Division

10th Panzergrenadier Division

12th Panzer Division

2nd Army (Walter Weiß)

VII Corps (Ernst-Eberhard Hell)


26th Infantry Division

68th Infantry Division

75th Infantry Division

88th Infantry Division

XIII Corps (Erich Straube)

82nd Infantry Division

327th Infantry Division

340th Infantry Division

Army Group Reserve

5th Panzer Division

8th Panzer Division

 

ARMY GROUP SOUTH

(ERICH VON MANSTEIN)

4th Panzer Army

(Hermann Hoth)

II Corps (Eugen Ott)

57th Infantry Division

255th Infantry Division

332nd Infantry Division

XLVIII Panzer Corps (Otto von Knobelsdorff)

3rd Panzer Division

11th Panzer Division

Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland

167th Infantry Division

II SS Panzer Corps (Paul Hausser)

1st SS Panzergrenadier Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

2nd SS Panzergrenadier Division Das Reich

3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf

Army Detachment Kempf (Werner Kempf)

III Panzer Corps (Hermann Breith)

6th Panzer Division

7th Panzer Division

19th Panzer Division

168th Infantry Division

XI Army Corps (Erhard Raus)

106th Infantry Division

320th Infantry Division

XLII Corps (Franz Mattenklott)

39th Infantry Division

161st Infantry Division

282nd Infantry Division

Army Group Reserve

XXIV Panzer Corps (Walter Nehring)

5th SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking

17th Panzer Division

       

Luftwaffe

Luftflotte 4 (4th Air Fleet)

 Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Commander in chief

Otto Deßloch, Chief of staff - Air support for Army Group South

VIII Fliegerkorps (8th Air Corps)

Luftflotte 6 (6th Air Fleet)

Robert Ritter von Greim as commander in chief and Friedrich Kless as chief of staff

 Air support for Army Group Center

1. Flieger Division (1st Air Division)

• Luftflotte 4 with:
•  I. Fliegerkorps,
• IV. Fliegerkorps, 
• VIII. Fliegerkorps, 
• Comandamentul Aviatiei de Luptã (Romanian Combat Aviation Command), 
• 102. Repülődandár (Hungarian 102d Air Brigade), 
• Seefliegerführer Schwarzes Meer.

 Assigned units on 5 Jul 1943:

Stab/FAGr. 4, 2.(F)/11, 2.(F)/22, 2.(F)/100, 4.(F)/122, 

1.(F)/Nacht, 4.(F)/Nacht, Westa 76, Stab/NAGr. 1 (with 1.(H)/41, 2./NAGr. 16?), Stab/NAGr. 6 (with 5.(H)/32, 2.(F)/33), Stab/NAGr. 9 (with 1.(H)/21, 7.(H)/32), Stab/NAGr. 14 (with 5.(H)/11, 5.(H)/41), II.,III./JG 3, Stab, I.,II.,III./JG 52, Stab, I.,II.,III./St.G. 2, Pz.Jäg.St./St.G. 2, Stab, I.,II.,III./St.G. 77, Stab, I.,II./Schl.G. 1, Führer d. Panzerjägerstaffeln (5 Hs 129B-2 Staffeln), Störkampfgruppe d. Lfl. 4, Stab, I.,II.,III./KG 27, 14.(Eis.)/KG 27, Stab, II.,III./KG 55, 14.(Eis.)/KG 55, I./KG 100, plus a large number of liaison, transport and med-evac units along with Romanian and Hungarian air units

Leaked Lizardmen Photo

Warhammer: Leaked Lizardmen Photo or Bullsh*t?

Rumoured to release in August, the Lizardman Army book is causing all type of rumours:

Trolling the net with my own observations:

I would expect monstrous cavalry ? Carnosaur riders?
A "giant dinosaur kit" (bigger than the Carnosaur)
New plastic "Terradon" kit - about the same size as the High Elves Phoenix (Terrordon? )
Couatl (may be the alternative build for the "Terradon" kit) - see I told told you, a giant flyer!Finecast Slann


New plastic carnosaur (singular); as well, but nothing concrete. 
It may also be the first time in 8th Edition (to date) that a character will be able to ride the same monstrous beast as a unit in its army 

Slann now becomes a multi-part plastic set - availability for a Relic Priest (Kroak, including Deathmask), a normal Priest, and a special limited edition plastic combination pack (similar to the Exalted Daemon Chariot) that combines a Stegadon and a Slann Priest to recreate Mazdamundi. In addition, they get access to Disciplines, but these may not be taken more than once. Reading into rumours suggests that Slann have Loremaster (see below for reasoning).

All Saurus armies become "viable" thanks to the return of Sacred Spawnings - units can purchase Sacred Spawnings like a Mark of Chaos, while characters get access to them off the bat. 
One will allow them to join Temple Guard units, others will give benefits to specific units, like Magic Resistance or Devastating Charge (Sotek?), while others (like Itzl, or whatever the Cold One Riders are), are already included within their stats.

Razordons and Salamanders become a Dual part plastic Monstrous beasts + handler kits, 2 Monsters and 6 Handlers to a set.

Couatl model - working like a Terrorgheist in that it can be both a mount (rumours are to be available at sub-200 points to allow 2 to be taken for heroes in 2400 games) and a monster, presuming rare.

The Stegadons become special choices as well, with a unit "upgrade" to Ancient stats, and a weapon "upgrade" to didgeridoo blowdarts. Skink Mounts still available IIRC.

Skink Priests gain access to Beasts as well as Heavens. In addition, Skink Priests may become "attendants" to a Slann - basically I read it as a Skink Priest option allowing it access to the same Lore the Slann itself knows. Reading into that suggests that Slann have Loremaster as standard.

The return of the Arcanadon - one thing that every non-lizard player is going to hate, a pokemon venusaur/stegadon crossover which takes in solar power to create a blast of magical light, in the form of a cannonball/stone thrower/flame cannon/breath weapon monster. Although nothing concrete about the presumed dual nature of the kit, it could possibly be a much "wanted" Thunder Lizard capable of making thunderstorms. 
(I think this bit unlikely)


Apparently Nakai will return - an apparently unbreakable "autohealing" monster non-general hero choice.(This is more likely)

Trolled across this on the net:



source:
http://kaughnorscave.blogspot.ca/2013/06/leaked-lizardmen-photo.html