** Grossman's Holiday - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

21 August, 1943 Gotha, NE of Kharkov: [Version-2.0][H2H][HISB) [EA][N VV] Immediately after Kursk the Soviets attacked along the front to exploit the exhaustion of their enemy and maintain the initiative. Operation "Rumantsyev" was launched to take Belgorod and Kharkov while enlarging the Kursk bridgehead. This would also allow their armor to drive deep to threaten Army Group South. Von Manstein knew he had to slap back at each enemy breakthrough, while his forces withdrew to shortened defensive positions. Eventually the Ukraine would have to be abandoned. But, von Manstein was going to make it a step at a time. The Soviets advanced with thoughts of victory. The Germans retreated in hopes of keeping their units cohesive until they could find a place to counterattack. In this spot two years before the Germans rushed to Gotha in hopes of gaining a "holiday". There they met T-34's instead and fought to just have a few few hours rest. Today there may be no rest for the weary of either side. No holiday again for Oberst Grossmann.