This one may be a scenario where the more experienced player should be the Americans. (We determined the side randomly; I am more experienced.) The German player starts out with the positional advantage - dug in, on elevation, and holding the target terrain - and with the Stug and the Panzer IIIN (plus a 75mm dug in on a hilltop) it's a daunting prospect for the relatively thin-skinned US armor. Still, the US has the numbers and the combat power, and early on the German armor took a few step losses, albeit they also took out more than their share of American tanks. The terrain on the "forward" board did allow the US to make multiple approaches, and the German armor had to spend part of the time switching between the different enemy thrusts.

The Americans did gradually throw their weight around, inexorably taking out some of the German forward positions and putting others on the edge of collapse. But in the game's second half, any chance the Americans may have had of pressing on to victory was torpedoed by one of the worst dice rolling streaks I've ever seen. Morale checks were just about guaranteed to fail, recovery was futile, and if an attack had a decent chance of success a "7" was sure to show up. With a few turns left, the newbie Americans had zero chance to win, and we called it. But it was still a solid scenario - I do think it is much tougher on the Yanks though.