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This 24 turn 4 mapper scenario has a beleaguered German force trying to hold Hill 276 against a mixed group of French ING DGNS and H39's supported by good OBDA. The German forces have a couple of 37 AT and also have a decent OBDA. The game took 6 session about 16-18 hours.
The initial French attack suffered heavily in the first hour as they moved to contact, some casualties were due to friendly fire, this would be a recurring theme throughout the game. Having moved into positions the French commander then launched his first assaults through the woods to the north. This was excellent tactics nullifying the German fire power to a certain extent. By 1600 in the evening both commanders had been incapacitated, and both sides had suffered heavy casualties however the French where getting the upper hand. The next few hours settled down to a slow grinding slugfest which the French with their superior numbers and armour were always going to win. The German commander began to try more desperate measure such as dropping OBDA on assaults, and jumping on the odd French tank which had gotten isolated from any INF support. This led to more friendly fire incidents, the dice were less than friendly to the Hun.
By 1900 the writing was on the wall German units were fleeing the hill and soon after the German commander surrendered to the triumphant French commander.
Many congratulations to Tread who played an excellent game to get the first French win in our playing of Fall of France. This scenario has a few faults, there is not much for the German player to do to be honest, I think it may favour the French slightly and the scenario is possibly to long. However we had a lot of fun playing this one and that after all is why we do this crazy hobby.
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That and the pay is exceptionally good, que no?