Author	triangular_cube
Method	Solo
Victor	Draw
Play Date	2021-04-23
Language	English
Scenario	BaBu035

This is another example of a scenario from Battle of the Bulge that has significant structural issues.

It starts off as a major tease. The US player gets just about their entire toolbox of cool stuff to play with, but they are ultimately frozen on the south end of the map unless an unreasonable German player advances on them. Except for the M7s from the large group of 9th Armored, absolutely everything is irrelevant to the scenario.

This leaves the Americans with just CCA, which must break through the dug in Germans on board 9 and exit 9 units of the north edge. This force is of course composed of, you guessed it, 9 units.

This is entirely unreasonable, but they only have to force 3 units of the north edge while avoiding step losses to force a draw. This is the only reasonable thing that players can do here.

So really all that happened was the Americans set out forward observers to pound the German lines for around 20 turns while the Germans recovered and displaced to plug holes. Eventually a weak enough spot was opened for the Americans to exit 7 units off the map and force a draw.

There really isnt much to play out here. The final caveat though is that the US player must hide their mighty, frozen, armored force out of sight so that the German's cant slip in step losses via OBA on them.

This unfortunately is not the only scenario to earn a "1" from BotB. This one stings even more because it looks like a fun, albeit onesided affair from the OOBs. Instead it turned out to be a one sided staring contest with some artillery going back and forth.