Assault through the Weeping Woods - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

Zoppot, 11km NW of Danzig: [Best played as Axis] On the 13th of March 1945 the Russian 2nd Belorussian Front opened an offensive aimed at reducing the German held fortified region around Gotenhafen and Danzig. The trapped German forces (7 divisions and the remnants of 11 others) fought bitterly to allow the Kriegsmarine time to evacuate both civilians and military. On the 22nd of March Russian forces broke through in the area of the resort town of Zoppot. In the wooded area west of Zoppot a rag-tag group of freshly formed German troops, with support from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, attempted to stop a Russian Rifle division, attacking en echelon, from reaching the sea and dividing the Germans forces in two.