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With the harsh conditions it was an amazing luck that all vehicles got up and running that morning of the attack. This fact made Hauser more confidend hic recoinassance in force could be succesfull. The last months had been easy on them following the advance of the other units and mainly receiving prisoners to be send to the rear.

Now with the other units exhausted this KG was one of the few fresh units avaiable to throw into the final attacl on moscow. It was quite hard to advance under these weather conditions even without the russians taking the occasional shot at them and all the unit was basically roadbound if it wantedto advance at any significant pace.

with the weather clearing up for the first time in days it was the chance to take the ridge that blocked the way to the moscow. Its planned to attack on a broad front and overhelm the enmy with surprise since there isnt much support from division hq like last time. It was just not possible to prepare an attack in that short time and half the ammo was frozen anyway.

the first few munits already bring an end to the Kradschuetzens mission to find the enemy wh has positioned itself in the villages and trees next to the road sniping on any advancing unit.

The KG has to change into attacking formation while it is still spread along the road as it was usual on themarch to the front.

Quickly the snipers are taken out by the armored vehicles but now the infantry has to move forward since there might be AT guns lurking in the woods on the side of the road.