This Scenario was over pretty quickly when the smoke over the river crossing was allowed to dissapate. This was disasterous for the Allies, as their one and only Engineer was reduced, demoralised, and a few turns later eliminated.

The focus for the Americans has to be to get their force accross the river, and to do so they have to protect their only engineer. Again, this scenario would probably be better substituting a regular engineer for the FLM, allowing two river-crossing hexes.

With the engineer destroyed, the Americans were outnumbered. Not a position you want to be in when needing to press an attack against a prepared defensive position. Over the next half dozen turns the American force was consistently dwindled away and eventually surrendered, when only a single full strength platoon (and a couple half platoons) remained at the foot of the slopes leading to Cairo. Germans suffered only 3 step losses.