As I stated before, in my first game in one of my first big assaults both sides rolled 6's on the dice! This destroyed one of the Martians machines enabling the Americans to concentrate all their forces on two remaining Martian machines. The Martian had sent two machines to go south, as the distance was farther and one machine to go north. Since one machine was now gone, the American just closed with large stacks of assault forces. This paid off, much to my surprise, they eliminated all three Martian machines but it was bloody with at least 22 step loses and 2 leaders killed in action and other demoralized units.

The American got very lucky in my first play but I found that stacks of three units plus halftracks and a Leader really help in assaults, so if the stacks get wiped out, another one attacks right afterwards. It also helped having some nice dice rolls right off the bat, as the Americans. In my next game, as the Martians, I will group all three machines adjacent to each other, blast a hole through the American lines south, then send one or two machines north.