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This scenario is a marathon, both in duration (50 turns is pretty long) and distance (7 mapboards laid side-to-side). Its a nice tactical puzzle as well. The French need to retreat as many units across the river on the farthest board, and prevent the Germans from crossing the same river. In my replay, the French cavalry and motorcycles, stiffened by a/t guns, artillery and a few tanks, did a good job of stalling the German onslaught at the wooded ridge at the eastern end of the map. The French decimated the light Panzer 1s and 2s as they struggled through the difficult ground in a futile flanking attack on the French defense. German infantry bogged down trying to root out the French defenders, forcing the follow-on German forces to deploy on the north flank and sweep around behind the French. Mopping-up took an additional few hours as valiant French kept rallying pockets of troops in positions to disrupt the advance of German trucks loaded with troops and artillery. After many delays, the Germans got their forces organized for an advance again and motored up the road to the Meuse, where the French had blown all the bridges (there were essentially no survivors of the delaying force worth holding a bridge open for). By this point, German losses had been so heavy that they were unable to cross enough troops to claim a victory. Both sides were battered and the countryside was strewn with bodies and wrecks. |
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