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In the Western Ukraine '43-'44 scenario, on the 1st turn, the Soviet 33rd Guards Airborne Corps is located at hex 229, 182. Having noticed this, I tried to create an Airborne Corps in a '41 campaign game I was recently playing. The game would not let me. Was there such a unit as a Soviet Airborne Corps and can they be used in a campaign game?

Chasseur

Replying to my own post, it may be possible that in the campaign game I was trying to combine airborne divisions which were scheduled to withdraw or be transferred to another TB. I will try again later in the game--my opponent and I are just starting a new '41 campaign.

Airborne Corps are not buildable. Something Trey must have added special for the Western Ukraine scenario.

carlhebert wrote: Thu Dec 15, 2022 7:47 pm In the Western Ukraine '43-'44 scenario, on the 1st turn, the Soviet 33rd Guards Airborne Corps is located at hex 229, 182. Having noticed this, I tried to create an Airborne Corps in a '41 campaign game I was recently playing. The game would not let me. Was there such a unit as a Soviet Airborne Corps and can they be used in a campaign game?

Chasseur

During the war there were no Soviet airborne corps. The airborne divisions were part of the regular guards rifle corps. In particular, the 33rd Guards Rifle Corps during its existence consisted not only of airborne, but also of ordinary rifle divisions:
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/warunit/id208/
9th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
07/10/1943 - 08/31/1943
97th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
07/10/1943 - 07/14/1943
95th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
07/10/1943 - 08/11/1943
52nd Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
07/12/1943 - 07/17/1943
42nd Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
07/18/1943 - 09/02/1943
6th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
08/10/1943 - 08/19/1943
66th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
08/15/1943 - 09/08/1943
6th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
09/01/1943 - 12/09/1943
95th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
09/08/1943 - 10/21/1943
9th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
09/20/1943 - 01/19/1944
13th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
10/15/1943 - 10/26/1943
84 rifle division
Subordination period
10/31/1943 - 11/30/1943
95th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
11/10/1943 - 01/19/1944
111 rifle division
Subordination period
11/10/1943 - 01/19/1944
13th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
11/21/1943 - 01/19/1944
84 rifle division
Subordination period
01/06/1944 - 01/13/1944
6th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
01/10/1944 - 01/19/1944
31 rifle division
Subordination period
01/11/1944 - 01/21/1944
299 rifle division
Subordination period
01/17/1944 - 03/27/1944
97th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
01/20/1944 - 02/26/1944
111 rifle division
Subordination period
02/01/1944 - 03/19/1944
9th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
02/20/1944 - 03/09/1945
14th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
03/19/1944 - 09/11/1944
6 rifle division
Subordination period
03/20/1944 - 03/31/1944
84 rifle division
Subordination period
03/20/1944 - 03/31/1944
214 rifle division
Subordination period
04/01/1944 - 05/19/1944
299 rifle division
Subordination period
04/19/1944 - 04/22/1944
78th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
05/13/1944 - 02/12/1945
9th Plastun Rifle Division
Subordination period
08/19/1944 - 08/26/1944
287 rifle division
Subordination period
10/21/1944 - 10/25/1944
14th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
10/30/1944 - 04/06/1945
95th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
02/12/1945 - 02/23/1945
78th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
02/17/1945 - 05/11/1945
118 rifle division
Subordination period
03/10/1945 - 04/22/1945
9th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
04/10/1945 - 04/30/1945
14th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
04/24/1945 - 05/11/1945
95th Guards Rifle Division
Subordination period
04/25/1945 - 05/01/1945
9th Guards Airborne Division
Subordination period
05/10/1945 - 05/11/1945

Malyhin is correct that there were no actual guards airborne corps. However, there were several guards rifle corps that were comprised entirely of guards airborne divisions. This was just a choice to reflect those handful of corps to get some airborne flavor in the game.

Trey

Thanks, Trey, for the explanation. I was hoping I could create a corps of Red Army supermen to take on particularly difficult missions.

carlhebert wrote: Thu Dec 15, 2022 7:47 pm In the Western Ukraine '43-'44 scenario, on the 1st turn, the Soviet 33rd Guards Airborne Corps is located at hex 229, 182. Having noticed this, I tried to create an Airborne Corps in a '41 campaign game I was recently playing. The game would not let me. Was there such a unit as a Soviet Airborne Corps and can they be used in a campaign game?

Chasseur

Airborne corps exist in the game in the initial period of the war, but they are made up of brigades, not divisions, and are similar in strength to a division, not a corps.