Return of the LAH - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

Malinovka, 38 km ESE of Kharkov: [Best played against Human opponent] After refit in Paris the 1SS Leibstandarte Adolph Hitler (LAH) Division was sent to the Russian Front to plug the gaps in the line created by advancing Soviet Armies and disintegrating German and Axis minor allied forces. The German 8th Army was retreating towards Kharkov along a line through Korobochkino and Malinovka. During the night of the 5th, Soviet scouts occupied Korobochkino close on the heels of the retreating German 298th Infantry Division. The morning of the 5th opened with an assault by the Soviets (led by the 15th Guards Tank Brigade) on what they believed to be rearguard forces from the battered 298th Infantry Division. At the same time, the LAH Division sent a battalion of panzergrenadiers to remove the Soviet scouts in Korobochkino. The German panzergrenadiers without their Panzers and the Soviet Guards without their massed artillery struggled for control of the main road to Kharkov.