End of the Bulge

**End of the Bulge** is a scenario in *Panzer Corps 2*.

## Briefings

***End of the Bulge***

German forces are in full retreat as American and British forces move in to erase the 'Bulge' created in their lines.

Victory Conditions:
Escort 4 Panzer Lehr Units to Escape Hexes.

Player Prestige Settings:
Starting Prestige: 7200
Prestige per Turn: 0

Enemy Prestige Settings:
Starting Prestige: 0
Prestige per Turn: High

Scenario Difficulty:
Challenging.

Weather and Terrain Conditions:
Chance for Clear: 67%
Chance for Clouds: 15%
Chance for Snow: 18%

Briefing begins:

You are absolutely certain of that? Once I give these orders, they cannot be undone.

The person on the other end of the line is speaking.

Very well. We will begin the withdrawal immediately.

The briefing officer hangs up his telephone and sits in silence for a moment.

Apologies, Herr General, but I only have the worst of news to share with you. In the face of stiffening Allied resistance and our rapidly depleting supplies, the decision has been made to abandon Operation Wacht am Rhein.

But I fear this retreat will not be so simple to execute. While we have been lingering in this bulge we have created, our enemies have had more than enough time to plot our demise.

American forces have already broken our siege of Bastogne...

2nd Panzer Division may already be cut off...

And it is only a matter of time before our weakened flanks collapse.

Before all is lost, I need you to extract Panzer Division Lehr from this disaster.

Deploy your forces to join them immediately, here at the town of Bure.

I must warn you that Panzer Division Lehr has taken quite a bit of damage from their initial advances through the region. I know that time is of the essence, but I still recommend you bring at least some of their heavy panzers up to strength to assist in your withdrawal.

Our gamble in the Ardennes may not have been the victory we sought, but now we must ensure it does not become a defeat we can no longer afford.

### Debriefing

**Historically, the German retreat from the Ardennes Forest in early 1945 was a disaster.**

**The decision to hold the territory that Operation Wacht am Rhein managed to secure left many German units, already out of supply, in a dangerously exposed position.**

**As British forces swept in from the north and American forces rushed in from the south, many German units, such as the 2nd Panzer Division, were outflanked and destroyed.**

**While those units who did manage to retreat had to abandon almost all of their heavy equipment, for lack of fuel.**

**Although the elite Panzer Division Lehr managed to survive the battle, they were a shadow of their former selves.**

**By the time of their surrender in April of 1945, this division that once boasted strength numbered in hundreds of tanks and ten thousand soldiers would be reduced to a mere dozen tanks and few hundred men.**

## Walkthrough

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## Locations

* Dinant

* Celles

* Bastogne

* Houffalize

* Rochefort

* Bure

* Manhay

* Longvilly

* Clerve

* St. Vith

* Vianden

* Wiltz River

* Our River

* Lhomme River

* Ambleve River

* Marche

* Meuse River

* Escape Hexes

* Dinant

* Celles

* Bastogne

* Houffalize

* Rochefort

* Bure

* Manhay

* Longvilly

* Clerve

* St. Vith

* Vianden

* Wiltz River

* Our River

* Lhomme River

* Ambleve River

* Marche

* Meuse River

* Escape Hexes

## Messages

* Panzer Lehr unit successfully reached Evacuation Zone!

Total evacuated tanks is now %d.

* Panzer Lehr unit successfully reached Evacuation Zone!

Total evacuated tanks is now %d.

## Notes

* Notable allied units:
	+ A Panzer Lehr Division Jagdpanther that is Level 3 and has Markus von Reuenthal, a hero with the Ignores ZOC trait.
	+ A Panzer Lehr Division Panther G that is Level 3 and has Volkhardt Kautz, a hero with the Double Attack trait.
	+ A Panzer Lehr Division Panzer IVH that is Level 3 and has Reinhardt Herzog, a hero with the Cheap Replacements trait.
	+ A Panzer Lehr Division Tiger II that is Level 3 and has Siegfried von Bonde, a hero with the Artillery Support and AT Support traits.
* Notable allied formations:
	+ 2nd Panzer Division
	+ Panzer Lehr Division
* Notable enemy units:
	+ 16th Crocodile, which is Level 2 and has a hero with the Double Attack trait.
	+ 26th Sherman Firefly, which is Level 2 and has a hero with the Leadership trait.
	+ 34th M4A1, which is Level 1 and has a hero with the Rapid Fire 2x trait.
	+ 39th M4A3(105), which is Level 1 and has a hero with the Vigilant trait.
	+ 63rd 76mm 3 Inch M5, which is Level 1 and has a hero with the Tank Killer trait.
	+ A 101st Airborne US Airborne 43 that is Level 3 and has a hero with the Unyielding and No Retreat traits.
	+ A US VII Corps M24 Chaffee that is Level 1 and has a hero with the No Retaliation trait.
	+ A US VII Corps US Infantry 43 that is Level 1 and has a hero with the Fast Entrenchment trait.
* Notable enemy formations:
	+ 29th Armoured Brigade
	+ 101st Airborne
	+ US 3rd Army
	+ US VII Corps