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Operation Stösser, December 1944

COOP: 1-5 Players
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MISSION:

Montherme, 1944

At 0500 16th December 1944, Kampfgruppe von der Heydte drops behind American lines in the vicinity of Sevechal to disrupt American rear line communications with the front and seize and hold Sevechal's fuel caches until relieved by the 12. SS Panzer Division.

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The operational situation may appear bleak; however, there's been several weeks of respite on the Western Front. Now that we are back on the Fatherland's soil, we fight for survival. Throughout the ranks, this is well understood, as our fighting spirit stiffens. Furthermore, recent successes in Holland, where we defeated the Market Garden attacks and the American repulse in the bloody Hürtgen Forest fighting has reduced the sense of shock from our routs last August. Coupled with Allied overextension and a pause at the border, the Wehrmacht's defensive activity has brought a quiet along the front. The Allies have settled in for a long, cold winter. Nevertheless, they view the Ardennes as a quiet, non-vital sector. Der Führer has obviously seen an inevitable military dilemma for Germany given its current situation.

His new strategic concept is bold: an unexpected armored offensive that includes an airborne and special operations that will split the advancing American and British Army groups on the ground, and also split a strained American-British political alliance. The goal of victory here is to delay the Allied advance and enable our engineers and scientists to apply the power of our Wunderwaffen against the enemies. Hitler has reasoned that this might result in a negotiated peace in the west, allowing the Wehrmacht to turn its full might back eastwards against the relentless Soviet Red Army.

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WWII, World War 2, World War II, WW2, Fallschirmjäger, 1944, West Front, Battle of the Bulge, IFA3, FoW, Faces of War