** Schwedt - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

[This scenario is intended to be played with the Blitzkrieg EFII expansion pack installed] Location : South of Schwedt, near the Oder. Otto Skzorzeny, Hitler's favourite, was ordered to defend the city of Schwedt near the Oder. To do this he had very meagre forces. His mainstay in the defense was the 600 SS Fallschirmjäger Abteilung. When Skorzeny took over the sector he rounded up evreyone that could carry a rifle. By February 1, 1945. He had amassed some 15,000 troops to defend his sector of the Oder. But all his troops came from different branches of the army, navy and SS! He couldn't get any tanks or tankdestroyers to bolster his defenses, but instead he got command of XX PaK verband, a semi-motorised anti-tank battalion. When the Soviets crossed the Oder on February 9, he was very happy to see that his troops withstood the first (direct) assault. But after four years of hard combat, the Soviets had learned a thing or two and they probed the flanks of his defenses. South of Schwedt a Soviet Rifle regiment, supported by parts of a heavy tank brigade tried to get through the defenses and bypass the fortified area of Schwedt. When the troops defending this area heard the tank engines, they called for help and dug in even deeper.