After seeing my report of this scenario, Mike Perryman emailed and gave me another option to try to make this a bit more playable and I am happy to report it does. The change was to allow the M5's entry on any hex and pay an extra point for all off-road and non-town hexes. This played out with an American win, but it now gives the Germans something to think about in there defense of the town. The Americans can flank the town which will require the Germans to shift men from there front to the sides. This will make the front slightly weaker, but more important it gets the Germans moving not just firing at the Americans.