I have set this one up and played one turn. Most of German force is still coming on the North side of Board 23 with a small force coming on board 22 to keep the Americans from concentrating to much to one side. In fact I set the Americans up first and just decided to try to push the main body of German through Board 23.

The only step loss so far is a Maus, believe it or not! On the first turn I draw a P-47 with a 2 armor factor, rolled one six out of the two dice roll attempts and now I have one step of burning Maus armor. Leave it to the Air Force!

Posting #2 As the Battle continued, I found I had too many holes in the American defenses. The Germans were going to go right up the middle with the Maus tanks screening but this was taking to long and the Americans over reacted to the middles game play and left their flanks open too much, especially their right side. The Germans poured through the hole after the Germans had whittled down the American armor. And it was game over. I didn’t even need to play to the end. Major German Victory!

Out of the 8 steps of Maus monster tanks, I only managed to take out two steps worth. One in the very beginning with some luck of drawing a P-47 with a 2 armor factor and taking the second one out with a shot from a M28. The Maus tanks fared much better then the M28’s on the battle field in this game. The major problem in this battle was I spread out my American armor way too much. They should have been kept at the rear to plug the holes, out of harms way, or attacked in mass. Either one would have been more effective.

The Sherman are basically only good for the crossfire bonus against the Maus tanks, use them instead to go after the lighter German armor and the loaded APC’s, which I didn’t or couldn’t because of my terrible setup.

By the way, those Maus have an AT range of 10!

Good game, win or lose, either way it is better then work!