This was played FtF against Vince Hughes. This scenario is a US attack against a small and strange mixture of German troops. The A/T guns and STUG's of the defenders are hidden and they have also mines,wire and entrenchments to assist in holding back the well armed GI's. Vince has written about the wealth of options available to the defender, its the Special rule reinforcements that make this scenario a interesting one from the US side. Simply you have to lose some AFV's to get any reinforcements and you have to lose them early. So off went the brave tankers in the vanguard hoping to flush out the German tanks and/or ATG's. Well I was lucky the tankers found the Stugs I lost 4 steps of tanks and 3 steps of M3s but Vince lost his entire tank force and I got my reinforcements early. A good job too because it was still a hard task to eliminate enough German units and entrenchments for victory, the sacrifice of those unwitting cardboard tank hero's was the turning point. The West Wall was breached!
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