Cisterna di Littoria, Italy 1944. (Best H2H oponent). On 30 January, after Anzio operation, the 3d Division launched its drive to cut Highway No. 7 at Cisterna. To spearhead the attack, General Truscott picked Col. William O. Darby's Rangers, veterans of Tunisia, Sicily, and Salerno. The 1st and 3d Ranger Battalions were to jump off one hour before the main attack and infiltrate under cover of darkness four miles across the fields to seize Cisterna by surprise and hold it until the main attack came up. The 4th Rangers and the 3d Battalion, 15th Infantry, were to follow an hour later up the Conca-Cisterna road. Patrol reports and a careful reconnaissance of approach routes indicated that the enemy had not yet been able to consolidate his defenses in front of Cisterna; Colonel Darby believed his men could sift through.When dawn revealed the head of the column moving down the road to Cisterna, a strong German force led by three self-propelled guns suddenly opened fire. The Rangers deployed quickly and knocked out the three guns. But as the light improved, German machine guns, mortars, and snipers, concealed in houses and haystacks or dug in all around them, trapped the Rangers in a hail of fire.

Wien Woods. (25 Km E of Wien, Austria). HvsH. Late in the war, just south and west of Vienna the retreating German 1st SS Panzer Corps was order to dig in and perform a defensive/delay role against overwhelming Russian armor forces. The area they were commanded to hold consisted of heavily forested alpine slopes over 900 meters high with many deep valleys, treacherous rivers, fast flowing streams, and poor roads. The LAH and HJ Divisions were considered reasonably defeated but could still muster enough retreating units and stragglers to be considerer as full combat units and although moral was very low together they made up two reinforced Regiments with significant armor support. Four Kampf Groups (Peiper,Gross, Kling and Reitzenstein), with medium and heavy armor along with battle hardened Panzergrenadiers dug in around a 10x10 Kilometer area of Corona peak, Laaben and Hainfeld strategically placing themselves in the path of the advancing Russian hordes in hopes of delaying their advance and allow retreating units from Italy and Austria safe passage through the Golsen River Valley into the heart of Bavaria and the Alpine region of Germany to safeguard Hitler's last pocket of defense.

v1.3 Modifications:
Rebalanced Victory Points and changes on German fixed units.

Stoumont, Belgium. 12 Km East of Liege and Meuse River. From here to Tipperary, guys!!!. It was the Peiper´s words to american prisoners the first day of the Battle of Bulge. The last German offensive is in progress. The Kampfgruppe Peiper has got a deep penetration in the American lines. Now the Peiper´s group is 60 Km behind their initial position, and after the initial surprise, the American forces were reorganising an imminent counterattack. The scenario shows the last situation of German advance, when the panzergrenadiers find a strong allied force trying to stop them near a little group of villages on the Ambleve riverside. Despite the great power of the German units formed with Panther and Tiger II tanks, the lack of supply had forced Peiper to a last movement to reach the Meuse River. The final story is well known for everybody. Can you help Peiper to advance until your objective?. On the other hand: Could you stop the Tigers?. The US army is formed for elements of 740th Tank Battalion, 823rd Tank-destroyer Battalion, 504th Airbone Regiment, 105th Engineers Combat Battalion, 117th and 119th Infantry Regiments. The Kampfgruppe Peiper was formed for two tank battalions with Panthers, Panzer IV and Tigers II, supported for a panzergrenadier battalion of II PzGr Rgt , two engineer companies, elements of 9th Fallschirmjaeger Regiment and selfpropeler artillery units. Good luck...

Montelimar, SE France. Seven days after the landings the VI US Corps in the Dragoon Operation, it had penetrated 250 miles into France. The failure of Wiese´s Nineteenth Army to stop the Allies on the beach was desappointing. The difficulty Wiese faced was in using his mechanized forces to delay the Allied advance while extricating his less mobile formations. The key to his withdrawal efforts lay in preventing the Allies from cutting his one escape route: the north-south road network running parallel to the Rhone River. The Commanding General of the VI Corps Maj.Gen. Lucian Truscott, ordered the 36th Infantry Division to block the German retreat in Montelimar, a decisive position on right bank of the Rhone. Wiese recognized the importance of Montelimar as well, lead elements of the 11th Panzer Division attacked the Americans. After eight days of fight the german units was attacked and the german units suffered strong losses by artillery fire.Long convoys were destroyed, and the entire zone was literally covered with a mass of burned vehicles, equipment and dead men. There were 11.000 german casualties, 2.100 vehicles were destroyed. At Montelimar the German Nineteenth Army was virtually destroyed. Aditional comments: Historically the bridges over the Rhone river at Montelimar were destroyed by P-47 American Ground Attack aircraft during the battle. In this scenario the bridges are intact, excluding the bridge over the Rubion river mouth.The players can decided if blow it during the game. At the begining of this game, the city of Montelimar is under german control, historically the Americans took the city and the main bridges over the Rubion river to stop the german advance to north.