Panzer Corps GC 42 Locarnus Napoleon Scenario 9 (1st Middle)

Grand Campaign 42 Storming Stalingrad
Video is actually from Lego Master studio show channel:
• Lego Battle of Staling...
The details on the difficulty are below:
Scenario 9 Storming Stalingrad (Days 7-11)
Here are 5 days that take as long as 6 days took last time. This is the start of things getting hard as most of my time and energy is spent fording off attack after attack on that central rail station I now possess. While at the same time I am trying desperately to advance in the South. Things go weel for me, but slow. I also work on eliminating the sneak attack on the central airfields.
This is straight up n extremely difficult battle, and there are so many ways to approach it based on the difficulty level you are playing. Based on the difficulty level I am playing this means I try and maximize prestige gain, while minimizing damage and maximizing kills. I end up spending a lot of the prestige I accumulate during the battle on needed replacements and you will just need to watch and see how I chose to play this one out. Let me know if you think I could play differently for different results.
Here is my army so far. (I think I only have 1 more unit that will be added to my corps, besides the annual SE unit for each remaining year of this ambitious campaign.
Goose: 1st SdKfz222+ (Defense 2)
Daniel S: SdKfz232++ (2 Spotting) :)
Goose Boy (Will be Tiger P) (Movement 1)
Soren Pz 4G (Spotting 1)
Rimski Pz 4G (Spotting 1)
Blast (Richard Martin's son) Marder 2 (Initiative 1)
Panzer Vorwarts Marder 3 (Movement 1)
Night Phoenix Panzer 3M (2 Attack)
Ray Caster Captured StuG 3E+ (Range)
Singer Captured (Reg Tiger) (Attack 3)
Pierre Captured Char B-1 (arty mod) (Movement 1)
7 Bowls T-34/42 (Attack 3)
Paramecium KV-1C (Defense 2)
Soljaism Pioniere w truck (Movement 1)
Richard Martin Grenadier Inf w 251/1 (Defense 2)
Pete Mitchell Kradschutzen (Attack 1)
Artemis Gebirgsjaeger 42 (Defense 2)
Nathaniel Pullig Fallschirmjaeger 42 (Initiative 1)
Brodrick 1st SE Bruckenpioniere (Attack 3)
Makorin 2nd Semovante 47/32 (Movement 1)
Patrick Lee 3rd SE Cavalry (Defense 1)
Paul Wilde 5th SE 7.62 PaK
Gigiduru (Netes Catalin) 7.5 cm Pak 40 (Movement 1)
Dneos Wurfrahmen (+1 Range)
Temis 10.5 cm leG 40 (+2 Def)
Raunosavolainen 10.5 cm artillery (1 Movement)
Raducu 15cm artillery r8 (Range)
Festival Bison 2 15cm sIG artillery (Defense 1)
Kei 21cm Mrs artillery (1 Movement)
Forest Law 10.5 cm sK 18 r9 (Attack 1)
El Baron 21cm Nebelwerfer (1 Movement)
Gog Dr. G Doktor StuG 3F/8 (1 Movement)
Reoguru Flakpnzr (1 Movement)
Locarnus Lorraine AA (4 Attack)
Jemhadarr 8.8 cm FlaK (+1 Movement)
Malcolm Richarson 2cm SdKfz 7/1 (Attack 3)
Von Thuringen Bf-109 G2 (Defense 3)
Couch Ofiziell Bf-109 F4 (Defense 3)
Mafujkhan FW-190 A-4 (Attack 2)
Alvarez FW-190A-3
Fighter Ace (weaklifts) Bf-110 C7 (Defense 1)
Arato Bela Bf-110 F2 (Attack 3)
cmmbfan (Uhu) Ju-87 D-3 (Attack 1)
Richard Do17 E-1
RMA 901 He-111 H-6
Slender 1870 Ju-88 C-2 (INITIATIVE 1)
AmericanIdiot181 Ju-88 A-4
Italian Units:
Dimitri 4th SE Italian Inf 42 (Initiative 1)
Kostia 8th Bersagleiri (will be Sahariana) (Attack 2)
Right Side 8th Semovente 75/18 (Defense 2)
Zyavoo 8th 75/46 AA (Attack 2)
Black Vulture 8th Folgore
Noxush 8th Re.2002 (Attack 3)
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[@locarnus255]

I just looked again at the Stalingrad Docks scenario and wondered about the North Eastern airfield near the river that is already under german control and guarded by those german units.
Since the scenario has 3 Ju 52 german transport planes available, it would be possible to deploy 3 paratrooper units over their from the start, but only if they have an air spawn.
So the first the german Fallschirmjäger, second Kostia with the Bersaglieri can be in family upgraded to Paracadutisti for 45 prestige and then third Temis with 10.5cm leG 41 gets an air spawn if you remove the Kettenkrad for the moment. So that would cost about 85 prestige, but you would have 2 para inf and 1 para arty/AT ready over there in the first turn.
At the very start, not many enemies are there. A single active SMG inf near the river at (35,5), the passive SMG inf at (29,6) where you can capture the BA-64 recon unit and those two active AA units near the northern most "Stalingrad Dock" harbor tile at (33,7). Destroying those two AA would give your aircraft a lot of room there, and infantry that attempts to land there would be very vulnerable. Together with the aux towed AT and AA guns from the airfields, you would also have a strong force in the rear of the Railway stations & tank factory.
I have not attempted this, just thought about this. No idea how the enemy units respond, if it is feasible or benefitial. But it would be some novel approach! Instead of the Soviets getting reinforcements from there, they would get flanked!

[@goose_2]

Oh I love this idea and think it would go well, but I already started the recording before I saw this post. Just finished the recording this morning. First 5 days took forever, but it is going well. There will need to be some discussion about unit changes for se units after I send you the finish of Docks. As I am assuming you will want an update by then. But all in all things are proceeding well, and overall pleased with how I am managing the difficulty.