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RE: Defending The Westwall : An End Of Series Review
With regard to these scenarios, I believe that one cannot under estimate two advantages that the Germans have with these scenarios. First, most are town and hill defenses with the Germans holding the ground. So they should setup around these defense bastions and not need to venture to far from them. This will give the Germans the advantage of interior lines as well as the terrain, both of which are very power in PG, no matter which side it is. The second is an off shoot of this, the weather. Most scenarios have mud conditions, which will not affect the Germans very much, unless they make mistakes with their setup. This will allow the Germans to patiently wait until the American come into range and then hit key units as the bring there units online.
For the Americans, the mud there bigger enemy. Most battles the Americans have long advances to the Germans and the VC's. Their total force movement will be reduced by 1/3 and require quite a bit of logistic management to get the slower units to the battles, if they even make it. This will force the Americans to either piecemeal there attack or wait until they get as many units as possible and launch one large attack and hope for good fire rolls. Both of which are no very good choices. But don't get me worry, most can have the Americans win with a bit of luck or bad German tactics. But when playing Herr Hughes, luck is probably your only possible advantage as he will make sure he has covered all the VC's.
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