The Fatal Scythes - The Matrix Games version of West Front

La Catelet, 17km N of St. Quentin, France: [Best played as Axis] As dawn broke on May 18th, the German panzers, named by Churchill "those hideous, fatal scythes," were on the move again in Northern France and Belgium. North of Guderian's XIX Panzer Korps, the spearheads of the 6th Panzer Division, from Reinhardt's Korps, pushed out of their bridgeheads across the Oise River and drove northwest to cut the St. Quentin-Cambrai highway. Opposition was light and good progress was made as the Germans raced past and captured columns of retreating French troops. Then in the middle of the afternoon, Kampfgruppe Ravenstein encountered a screen of light tanks from General Bruche's 2nd French Cuirassier Division southeast of Le Catelet. Well aware of the superior armor of the enemy's "B" tanks, Colonel von Ravenstein called for the support of the division's assigned heavy anti-aircraft guns and ordered his panzers forward. Desperately trying to evacuate from Le Catelet, the French Ninth Army headquarters was depending on Lt. Colonel Golhen's battle group with the 2nd Cuirassier's remaining tanks to delay the enemy and cover its escape.