The Germans hold board 13 in depth, holding3 towns and lots of hedgrow country in front of the US advance. Even the airborne guys were little help when they succeeded in entering the board on their first opportunity, effectively creating a bottleneck in sight and rang of the German first line of defense centered on the town in 0803. In this game, the Sherman platoon died on the fist turn as the 75mm at gun hit it from the town. US infantry deployed in line to try to break through or bog down that first line so the following airborne guys could flank it and advance but German fire was too accurate. The US troops lost 9 steps and 2leaders by the end of turn 4. Germans need to inflict 8 steps of loss to win, and any draw is a German win, so the surviving Americans fell back to live to fight another day. Good scenario, very tough to win for the US.