About Demyansk Pocket
Demyansk Pocket 1942 is a turn based strategy game set on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Your mission is to re-open the route to the German units the Red Army has managed to encircle near Demyansk. From...
Demyansk Pocket 1942 is a turn based strategy game set on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Your mission is to re-open the route to the German units the Red Army has managed to encircle near Demyansk. From Joni Nuutinen: by a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011.
Historical background: During the attacks of the winter of 1941–1942, the Soviet Red Army managed to encircle 100,000 German soldiers holding the front line in Demyansk, located half-way between Moscow and Leningrad. After receiving reinforcements, the Wehrmacht unleashed an offensive against the city of Staraya Russa. The purpose was not to evacuate the encircled units, but to reopen a land connection to the out-of-supply forces in Demyansk pocket in the hope of continuing to control the area as a preparation for future campaigns. Meanwhile, the encircled units, with inadequacy supplied by the Luftwaffe, engaged in a cutthroat battle for life or death. One of the encircled German units was the 3rd WSS Division, which earned its elite status in the fierce battles leading the defense of the pocket, a process in which the unit suffered 80% casualties. However, the German victory in Demyansk in 1942 paved the way for a major German miscalculation a year later, when 300,000 German soldiers were encircled in Stalingrad in 1943, and based on the successful experiences from Demyansk, the commanders were ordered to wait for help instead of breaking out.
Game: You take command of both the encircled units and the fresh divisions, attempting to re-establish a land route from Staraya Russa to Demyansk as quickly as possible. To have a chance to seize the top spot in the Hall of Fame, you need to skillfully lead units through the Red Army rifle divisions as quickly as possible and maintain the newly opened route for nine consecutive turns. All this while fiercely defending the cut-off Demyansk area with poorly supplied Wehrmacht and auxiliary units.
Objective: The game is over after you re-establish a connection between the cities of Staraya Russa and Demyansk - and successfully and continuously maintain that connection for 9 consecutive turns.
Settings: A long list of options (split on two separate settings pages) are available to alter the look of the game: Change difficulty level, hexagon size, Animation speed, choose icon set for units (NATO or REAL) and cities (Round, Shield, Square, block of houses), decide what is drawn on the map, turn some support units types on/off, are negative move points marked on the units, and much more.
Privacy Policy (full text on website and app menu): No account creation, the made-up username used in the Hall of Fame listings is not tied to any account and does not have password. Location, personal, or device identifier data is not accessed or used in any way. In the case of a rare crash the following non-personal data is sent (vie web-form using ACRA library) to allow quick fix: Stack trace (code which failed), Name of the App, Version number of the App, and Version number of the Android OS. The app only requests the couple of permissions it absolutely needs to function.
"The Demyansk Pocket was a remarkable achievement of German soldiery. Despite being surrounded for months, they were able to hold out and ultimately break out of the encirclement."
-- General Hans Speidel, Chief of Staff of the 2nd Army
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Demyansk Pocket since it was posted on our website on 2014-06-13 14:31:57.
The latest version is 6.2.4.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 14:07:59. See below the changes in each version.
Demyansk Pocket version 6.2.4.0
Updated At: 2024-04-05
Changes: + War Status: Shows the number of hexagons the player gained/lost in the previous movement phase
+ Extra MPs in the quiet rear area now follow more the rules commonly used in this game series
+ Less free movement on road if unit already has extra MPs (to prevent unrealistic movement combinations)
+ Feature removed (too small map scale): Capturing a major city might cause nearby opposing units to pull back
+ HOF refresh (the oldest scores deleted)
Demyansk Pocket version 6.2.2.0
Updated At: 2023-11-24
Changes: + Accuracy: Artillery can now use MPs to prepare for the next barrage to make it more efficient
+ Setting: Alter how strongly hexagon grid is drawn on the map
+ Rear area units with multiple MPs might not leave movement arrows to avoid filling the entire map with them
+ Setting: Rounded Display: If turned ON, the game tries to pad the status line
+ Setting: Turn making a failsafe copy of the current ongoing game ON/OFF (turn OFF for decade old devices totally out of storage space)
Demyansk Pocket version 6.2.0.0
Updated At: 2023-09-02
Changes: + Revamped movement arrow drawing mechanism
+ Settings: Scattered Units marked with symbols instead of icons
+ Setting: MAP button can either show full screen map with city icons or VP in a circle
+ Setting: Make support units to be at higher or lower selection priority
+ Setting: Automove (moving several hexagons at once) can focus the map into direction of travel
+ Slightly bigger Status Line at the bottom of the screen
+ One Disband action (via long press of REL button) per turn
+ 40 UNDOs
Demyansk Pocket version 6.0.2.0
Updated At: 2023-07-07
Changes: + Setting: Turn AutoMove ON/OFF or alter its effective range (moving the selected unit multiple hexagons after one faraway tap) (UNIT SELECTION segment of Settings)
+ AI: Trying to reduce excessive tactical-task-switching
+ More German minefields
+ Stuka fix
Demyansk Pocket version 6.0.0.4
Updated At: 2023-06-27
Changes: + Setting: Less initial HP to reflect the fact that units were mid-action when the encirclement took place
+ If the city of Simsk is los, no more reinforcement units for the Axis side
+ More effective bombardment by artillery
+ Setting: Draw 1921 war ensign flag over empty spots on map over player area
+ AI: Better situation assessment before attacking over rivers
+ HOF cleared from low VP scores
+ 20 UNDOs
+ Stats include length of front-line
+ Simplified Shield-styled city icons
+ HOF cleanup
Demyansk Pocket version 6.0.0.0
Updated At: 2023-05-27
Changes: + Setting: Less initial HP to reflect the fact that units were mid-action when the encirclement took place
+ If the city of Simsk is lost (located in the upper-left corner of the map), no more reinforcements
+ More effective bombardment by artillery
+ Setting: Draw 1921 war ensign flag over empty spots
+ AI: Better situation assessment before attacking over rivers
+ HOF cleared from very low VP scores
+ UNDOs to 20
+ Stats include length of the front-line
+ HOF cleanup
Demyansk Pocket version 5.8.8.0
Updated At: 2023-04-16
Changes: + Setting: Draw 1921 war ensign flag over empty spots on map over player controlled area (if any) (take II)
+ AI: More comprehensive situation assessment before attacking over rivers
+ Stats include length of the front-line
+ HOF cleared from the oldest scores
Demyansk Pocket version 5.8.6.0
Updated At: 2022-12-29
Changes: + Setting: Draw 1921 war ensign flag over empty spots on map over player controlled area (if any)
+ Any unit can be disbanded by long pressing REL-button for over 5 seconds
+ When MP/HP resource selected, eligible units will have yellow edges
+ Stats show total travel by ground combat units per turn
Demyansk Pocket version 5.8.2.0
Updated At: 2022-02-06
Changes: + HOF relocated to web (see dev-log for details)
+ Assigning replacements (+1 HP) to a unit is a bit easier (3 adjacent enemy hexagons allowed, but the severity of enemy-blocks-replacements depends on the Difficulty Level
+ AI: Improvements in front line coherence
Demyansk Pocket version 5.8.0.0
Updated At: 2021-10-18
Changes: + Fog-of-War: Sometimes enemy HP drawn as ?
+ Assigning +1 HP replacements: The unit can't be adjacent to more than one enemy hexagon or out of supply
+ Victory Point Status: The number of VPs player currently controls drawn on the screen on yellow box (ON/OFF option in the settings)
+ New default background is solid yellow-green color (options: 22 image patterns, grey, green, yellow-green)
+ Icons: Brightened the darkest units
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