The middle of the line looked easiest for the US commander, after the Germans set up, and that is where he went with his forces. The Germans had set along the road so that he might shift his forces quicker to where they were needed. The hills/woods in the East of the map made it difficult to go directly for the town hexes (i.e. the "money" hexes) behind all the woods and it was nothing less than a blood bath fighting through. Even with the US reinforcements coming into the fray on turn 10 could not break the line. Not a good showing for the US commander