Played solo. It took the scenario duration to finish..

It initially looked like a piece of cake for the Germans, but three hours later 10 steps of German armor lay as smoking hulks spread over the battlefield. Had they known that the in-town setup French H39's were almost invulnerable to the pathetic German AFV guns (excluding the PzIV), their commander would surely've chosen another plan of approach.

I decided to setup 3 H39's in the western town and the other 2 in the east, placed the 25mm in between together with some motor cycled cover. For the German Panzers I chose a frontal attack with the best armored AFV's. Trying to bind the H39's to give the weak (what ever did they do in the battlefields of France) PzI's the chance to deploy and swallow the French 'soft' units. The German artillery was very accurate and suppressed the French 25mm for quite a while. The break through worked pretty well, albeit with a tremendous loss of AFV's. In quick succession 4 steps of PzII were knocked out by the H39's, the rest were immediately assaulted by the French cyclists, which worked out quite well. Because both sides wanted to take advantage of the cross-fire bonus, the units spread over the battlefield looked like the black squares of a checker board..

As it is, in the end the Germans managed to control more than half the town hexes but in the interrim they had to give away 23 VP (6 PzI, 10 PzII, 2 PzIII, 2 Pz IV and 3 Sk222's). The French lost 9 VP of which (only) 4 VP worth of H39. French victory. Graded it a 3; had it been a more balanced scenario it certainly would've deserved a 4.

Noteworthies:

• The Germans gained 10 initiatives out of 12;

• As soon as the 25mm recovered from the suppressive artillery it immediately bagged a step of German AC, cool..;

• All French soft units that were lost were lost by raiding PzI's, but they lost about the same number of steps themselves. Very inefficient if you consider that they count double for VP purposes