A Tall Assignment - The Matrix Games version of West Front

The Liri Valley, 97km SE of Rome, Italy: [Best played as Allied] Toward the end of May 1944, the German defences in Italy were at the brink of crumbling. The US VI Corps had launched its long awaited breakout from the Anzio Beachhead on the heels of the Canadians breaching the Hitler Line. The 5th Canadian Armoured Division was driving up the Liri River valley. German hopes to stabilize the situation lay where a tributary named the Melfa River meandered across the valley floor. If the Germans could hold here, the Tenth Army might yet be saved. In the early afternoon of 24 May, Griffin Force took the van, led by Lt. Perkins and the Strathconca recce troop. Their task was to reach the Melfa as quickly as possible and to locate, ford and hold a suitable crossing point of the battlegroup. It would prove to be a tall assignment!