A Stand In The Woods - The Matrix Games version of West Front

[Teamgame; 3 vs. 3] : Location : Saint-Vith, Belgium. Four days now into the Ardennes Offensive, the german timetable set for reaching the Meuse river is in shatters!! While Kampfgruppe Peiper is still fighting hard to bash it's way forward, the two key towns of Bastogne and Saint-Vith still remain in allied hands. Saint-Vith, held by battlegroups of 7th and 9th Armoured divisions, has been under attack for two days now by the 18th Volksgrenadier division. Lacking any armour support, the volksgrenadiere have been trying to reach Saint-Vith via the main highway. But in two days of fighting, they only managed to push back a blocking force, Task Force Fuller, that had taken up positions on the Prümerberg heights. The German corps commander became impatient at the lack of progress on his front! Further north, units of the 1st SS Panzer division had already moved through Recht and Poteau, but still his troops were unable to support them! But this would soon change! The powerfull Führer Begleit Brigade has been released from operational reserve and was moving up to support the grenadiers. And as a matter of coincidence, a combat group of 9th SS Panzer Division, Kampfgruppe Telkamp, used a secondary road to avoid it's assigned, clogged, rollbahn and found itself also heading for Saint-Vith. Allied high command was not intending to hold on to Saint-Vith forever! Instead it was determined to hold the town untill all troops in the area had retreated safely back to Vielsalm. So the infantry and tank of 7th and 9th Armored made a stand, a stand in the woods.