The Germans must take the town and exit several units to the west in three and a half hours. A combination of artillery and armor-supported assaults was the strategy to accomplish this goal. The American strategy was to use artillery and fall back to delay the Germans as they attempted to take the town. Based on my experience in Marnach I and the historical outcome, I expected the Germans to prevail. The Germans cleared out most of the town, but stubborn American defense (aided by several favorable die rolls) of two hexes continued. In the last 15 minutes, the Germans were poised to exit the required units, and were assaulting the final American-held hex (a reduced infantry platoon) with armor, an engineer platoon, and a HMG platoon. A 1 was rolled, and the American leader and infantry passed the morale checks. The Americans denied victory to the Germans. Several factors led to this outcome: 1) the Germans were not aggressive enough in the first few turns, 2) the Germans did not effectively employ armor and engineer units in early assaults, and 3) in many critical instances, the dice rolls favored the Americans, especially when it came to availability of German artillery, morale checks and recovery, and combat results. In short, I did not use employ German forces in an effective manner. I am still learning the importance of armor and engineers and their valuable contributions to town assaults. I am also realizing that with short scenarios, the attacking force must act quickly and effectively to get the victory.

Another crunch on the town. The Americans don't stand a chance. The only socially redeeming factor was that there was a lot of tanks to play with.

The Americans set up first in the town on board 11 which is inverted? from the previous scenario. They set up their defense pointing eastward in order to intercept the stream of reinforcements from the Germans, which includes a large number of tanks that will overwhelm them easily unless they are slowed up significantly through poor German rolling.

The Germans take advantage of the set up, and place their starting units on the northeast hill on board 11 to walk into the town relatively unopposed. They do this and the Americans redeploy their defense on turn one, but the Germans are already adjacent to the town at this point. The Germans win initiative on turn 2, OBA the Americans and assualt. The Germans tie the Americans into stalemate assaults until reinforcing tanks knock out the Americans.

German victory.

A very short and bloody scenario. German infantry start 4 hexes away from the American defenses in town, and due to the hill they can stay out of site pretty well until close. By turn 3 German troops were in the town and in hand to hand combat, two Panthers arrived on turn 4 and by turn 7 the M8 in town was blow to pieces. Overall Germans lost 4 steps, the US force was completely destroyed by turn 10. Not a particularly balanced scenario, but quick and had action.