Collision with Task Force Orr - The Matrix Games version of West Front

Dochamps, Belgium [Best played H2H] The 1128th Volksgrenadiers won an honor for their road march from Heinerschied to Houffalize and were in high spirits when Oberst Rudolf Langhäuser, the 560th Volksgrenadier Division commander, gave the order to push Task Force Orr back to Amonines. At the base of the corridor around Dochamps, 1128th made an attack to widen the path northwest to the Ourthe crossing. Early on 21 December the volksgrenadiers collided with Task Force Orr while the latter was trying to eradicate the roadblock which barred the road up to Dochamps and Samrée. In a sharp action at a hairpin turn in the road, the German infantry infiltrated close enough to attack three tanks but took a beating instead from the American artillery. However the main attack would come at 0900, the following day on 22 December. As it happened a part of the German force had been pinned down by an attack against flank and rear thrown in by Task Force Kane, but this intelligence was unknown to Orr. The German commander, Oberst Schmidt, disengaged from Kane, put in his engineer battalion to hold Dochamps, then moved to the ridge east of the valley road and began the fire fight.