The Citadel at Velikiye Luki - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

Velikiye Luki, 220km NW of Smolensk: [Best played as Allied] By mid December 1942, the German defenders at Velikiye Luki had been surrounded by the Red Army and cut off from outside supplies for over a month. Several attempts to relieve the desperate defenders had failed. Inside the fortress were 7500 German troops under Lieutenant-Colonel von Sass, defending a front line of thirteen miles. They were elements of the 83rd Infantry Division reinforced, or had simply been joined by other units who found themselves inside the "fortress" after their retreat from the Russian onslaught. Having repulsed multiple attacks and with supplies disappearing quickly, the situation was becoming desperate! On the day after Christmas the Soviets attacked again. The primary objective for the 135th Guards Rifle Regiment, supported by the 45th Guards Tank Regiment, was The Citadel on the western bank of the Lovat River.