Liberation 1944: scenario #9: Escoville

I really like the huge selection of vehicle/armor types in Liberation but I don’t care so much for the very dark maps but still it won’t keep me from playing good scenarios! In this scenario both sides start right up against each other, so the action starts immediately in this 12 turn scenario where the objective is mostly about controlling the towns, especially the larger one called Escoville. The Germans can also get some level of victory from eliminating British steps but that is conditional on the British controlling or not controlling the town hexes.

The Germans have mostly an Armored Recon of mostly armored cars and halftracks of various types and a company of Infantry to try and hold three towns while the British have three times the Infantry, support units & a couple of platoons of the light Tetrarch tanks.

In my game play, it was a bloody struggle for most of the game, with the Germans losing 13 steps and the British losing 17 steps and a leader but in the end the British numbers were too strong for the Germans to hold back. The British control Escoville and one other town but were in too bad of a shape to be able to take the third town, thus no major victory. The British achieved a Minor Victory in this one. Kind of a fun scenario to play.