A small infantry battle with low morale Volksgrenadiers vs. "green" US infantry. As the forces meet in light woods and hill terrain, the units more or less go toe-to-toe at each other with the column shifts for light woods and hills balancing the +2 adjacent shift.

The German OBA really made the difference. With 30-col bombardments, this gave the Germans a chance to inflict compound step losses on US forces. Also, on balance it appeared the Germans got the better of the morale checks (had three leaders with +1 morale bonus whereas the US only had one). One sort of crazy scheme was a stack of US units that consistently were hit with M or M1 checks, would fail, but then recover with absurdly low recovery rolls (e.g. a pair of '2s' in a row!). This went on for three turns before finally a few demoralized units failed and had to flee. The Germans likewise had their pair of units that refused to recover.

Ultimately, by game end (turn 16) the US had not been chased off the N/S road, but the Germans had inflicted more that twice the number of steps losses (11 vs. 4) thus a German victory. Really, the two sides looked like Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed. Someone won, but neither was a pretty sight.