Author	Daedalus
Method	Solo
Victor	United States
Play Date	2022-05-23
Language	English
Scenario	AirR005

The US won the initiative on the first turn and made the most of it. By moving closer to the town in 0509,, the Americans prevented the lone, leaderless Grenadier from occupying the town or moving closer to any its objectives. The rest of the Germans started out of the town in hex 0803 and formed a defensive perimeter out front of that objective. On turn two the Americans occupied the town and setup for a quick strike at the lone grenadier. The Germans sent a leader down to assist the lone grenadier and help it move close to the US and the Americans other objective hexes. The US then decided to take a risk and left the town lightly defended with a reduced platoon and struck out to engage the lone Grenadier. By using a combination of direct fire and Assault combat the lone Grenadier and his leader were eventually destroyed but, the Germans moved up and into the town assaulting the lone reduced para holding the location. Unfortunately for the Germans the reduced para rolled extremely well and caused a step reduction. This bought time for the rest of the Americans to regroup and reinforce the lone platoon. The assault commenced on turn 10 and continued throughout the rest of the game with neither side gaining a significant advantage by the end. The LTC was removed from play on the first turn in which I had to roll. A loss, but, not mission critical. The Germans had a CPT 10-0-2 leader in the town and he provided a powerful morale/recovery bonus to those units. During the endgame I was able to exfiltrate the reduced para who raced down the road to secure the town in hex 0803 and then raced back to secure 0407. For the remainder of the game it was a even match in the town but the German CPT was a difference maker and while the US was able to demoralize units he was able to recover them every time.