This was an exciting scenario, although i feel like I may have misplayed the Slovaks. The strategy I took with the Slovaks was to make the clearing of the road (the Hungarian major victory condition) as slow as possible rather than tenaciously defending the bridge. My reasoning was that 24 turns may not be enough time for a low morale, weakly-led Hungarian force to clear the road and adjacent hexes across two boards. By placing multiple Slovak company-strength forces in woods and towns along the length of the road, I'd force the Hungarians into multiple approach-and-assault battles that would be difficult to sustain with such low morale.

In practice, both forces had low morale and weak leadership, but the Hungarians rolled better. Advancing in two bodies, the northernmost routed the Slovak platoons holding the bridge, although the Hungarians actually crossed the river north of there and approached the first forest holding a Slovak infantry and AT force. The southern force crossed the river below the bridge and leap-frogged ahead to get at the second Slovak delaying position in woods farther back. Both battles developed and played out in parallel, with the Slovaks suffering significant morale failures and disintegration of their forces. The Hungarians were better at keeping their morale up and recoveries were more common. The key to their strategy was to relentlessly advance with company-sized forces even while still mopping up resistance behind them.

Once the first two Slovak positions had collapsed, the Hungarian steamroller really let go and rolled up the remaining three Slovak positions with ease. After 22 turns, the Slovaks had lost control of the entire length of the road and could muster no effective fighting force. A company of scattered, leaderless infantry hiding in the woods was all that remained of their original reinforced battalion. Hungarian losses totaled one platoon. Major Hungarian victory.

I've been going over the Slovak plan in my head and I still think it might have worked. I was genuinely surprised at how well the Hungarians did. Perhaps it would make more sense to have tried to hold the bridge, but I felt that the terrain there was too open for a good defense. Maybe by relying on a larger forward defense that fell back ahead of the Hungarians, rather than smaller static forces, I could have successfully stalled the advance. I just don't like moving low morale forces in the face of the enemy, op fire is just too disruptive. And yet the Hungarians did quite well doing just that.