Spring Awakening (turn-limit)

This is a turn-limited version of Operation Spring Awakening 1945

It`s 1945 and you are in control of Axis forces tasked with securing the last Axis oilfields located in Hungary and Austria by both re-taking the city of Budapest and clearing the western side of the river Danube of the Red Army divisions which have formed a large beach-head reaching all the way to the Lake Balaton.

For Operation Spring Awakening (Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) you have been given third of all the Panzer formations on the Eastern Front: two Panzer Armies strengthened with King Tiger battalions to launch two spearheads from both sides of Lake Balaton, while the third weaker attack will be launched from the South.

Although the situation in 1945 was desperate for Germans, just two months earlier Wehrmacht successfully carried out similar offensive called Operation Southwind, clearing out another but smaller Soviet beach-head.

Should you fail to secure these crucial last oilfields Germany would lose 80 percent of the remaining oil output dooming the defense of Berlin, and with the fall of Vienna the last remaining Axis partners would surely drop their weapons.

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