Alarmeinheit Schicklgruber - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

Hypothetical Scenario (Best played against Human Opponent) January 1943 and the Russian winter offensive is in full cry west of the Don. The Rumanian and Italian armies have collapsed. In a desperate attempt to slow the Russian steamroller, Alarmeinheiten are formed from any ad-hoc units available and thrown into yawning gaps in the front. When the Austrian Oberst Franz Schicklgruber returned to the Ostfront from convalescent leave in Linz, little did he know that he'd have the misfortune to be handed such a command. While his parent division, the 44th Hoch u. Deutschmeister Infantry Division, was perishing in the cauldron of Stalingrad, Oberst Schicklgruber had his units --( a muddle of German stragglers, Luftwaffe Infantry, AT gunners with a few guns, some Italian Bersaglieri, Rumanian engineers and AT gunners and a handfull of mortars and Inf. guns and even a few tanks salvaged from some nearby repair workshops) -- dig in around the railway siding of Krasnaja Poljana and await the arrival of the Russian mobile spearheads. The position is defensible thanks to a ring of small hills around the little town. On the morning of 16 January his scouts report Russian tanks and cavalry approaching from the east and south-east. His preparations nowhere near complete, with some of his units very low in morale and others still disorganised and having just arrived, Oberst Schicklgruber contemplates an uncertain future. His only hope is that the driving snow and bad visibility will seriously hamper the attackers; and that the Russian units are weakend by the past few weeks of combat and relentless pursuit of the disintegrating Axis forces.