Deadlock Before Moscow - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

Nara bridgehead, 60 miles from Moscow: The rifle companies of 98 German Infantry Division, barely stronger than platoons, were ordered to seize an undulating feature known as the Chernishnaya Height in order to clear the Mosow Highway for the advance of 19 Panzer Divison. The Germans were twice thrown off the Height by the hurrahing Bolsheviks of the elite 5 Soviet Airborne Corps. At eight o'clock in the morning of October 26 a line of T34 tanks came rumbling to the attack, closely followed by Soviet paratroops. Soviet artillery and bombers pounded the German troops, who were still not properly dug in. Two German battalions were overrun by the T34 tanks, the 37-mm anti-tank guns being flattened under the broad tracks. The tanks then clattered through the village called Gorki, crushing houses like matchboard. The position was not stabilized until the arrival of the panzer regiment of 19 Panzer Division, but by then 98 Division had been burnt to a cinder.