No Other Choice - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

Buchach, 135km SE of L'vov, western Ukraine: [Best played as Axis] Dawn broke on the 6th of April 1944, after another night of freezing cold for the 200,000 Germans trying desperately to escape the Soviet encirclement of Hube's Pocket. On the northwestern edge of the pocket, the grenadiers of the 114th Panzergrenadier Regiment, supported by armor of the 10th SS Panzer, fought their way through the strung-out Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army. Positioned to block their escape at the village of Buchach along the Strypa River were elements of the Russian 70th Mechanized Brigade, which were expecting reinforcements from the 59th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment. The trapped Germans knew that they had to fight through to the crossings and hold them to allow the following formations to escape. Their only other choice was death or to become prisoners of the Soviets, which was the same thing. On the other side of the river was the relative safety of the 2nd SS Panzer Corps approaching from the west.