ATS Stalingrad: Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works 1942

About this board game

ATS Stalingrad: Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works 1942 is a two-player board game with an approximately 120-minute play time, set amid the Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works during the fighting at Stalingrad.

The game places you directly into several desperate battlefield situations. You may be part of a German squad preparing to cross a street watched by an unseen Russian machine gun, or among the crew of a buttoned-down Sturmgeschutz IIIB moving through the rail yards.

Smoke and dust obscure the tank crew’s view through the periscope, adding uncertainty to the advance. Elsewhere, a platoon of Soviet Guardsmen holds a partially collapsed factory while a Commissar stands behind them, aiming a Tokarev Model TT33 and demanding that they hold to the death.

• German squad: Prepare to dash across a street covered by an unseen Russian machine gun.
• Sturmgeschutz IIIB crew: Rattle across the rail yards with visibility obscured by smoke and dust.
• Soviet Guardsmen: Defend a partially collapsed factory under the Commissar’s watchful command.

These sharply drawn perspectives capture the danger and pressure of close fighting around an industrial battlefield. Rather than presenting a distant overview, ATS Stalingrad: Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works 1942 focuses attention on soldiers, armored vehicles, ruined structures, and the immediate threats surrounding them.

Released in 2004, the game is designed for two players and offers a concentrated Stalingrad experience built around German and Soviet forces facing deadly situations at the tractor works.