I had the pleasure of replaying this scenario with Josh Brumley over Skype last night. This scenarios is a good introductory scenario for the game system. Not a lot of counters or special rules, but you do get to push around both infantry and armor as well as some serious OBA. I was the Germans and Josh was the Americans.

He setup in the town area with his infantry and light armor. I moved onboard from the east. The Stugs moved down the road, while the infantry moved into the light woods south of the road. With some initial success by the Stugs in destroying some of the M8's and M3's, the Stugs then moved toward the south of the town to try to take on the M16. The Stugs cleared the M16 to pave the way for the GREN's and ENG's to move into the town. But then the American OBA came to life. An initial barrage against a lone Stug resulted in a demoralization that kept him out of the battle for about 5-6 turns. The second was a strike on a infantry forces moving up to assault the town. Initial disruptions were shaken off, but OP fire by a stack of American INF's resulted in a 2X kill. This paralyzed the German group with a LT. and remaining ENG and GREN demoralizing.

More infantry moved into the town, but OBA and DF kept the Germans disrupted and demoralized. At one point all three German leaders we demoralized. But the Germans kept going and capture a lone Americans LT who had been spotting for the artillery and bringing there own OBA down on the Americans, resulting is disruptions and demoralizations to them as well.

American M4's made an early entry and moved to blast away at the Germans in the west of the town. One German Stug was able to hit an M4 in the open destroying it. The others moved behind the town to continue to fire at the German infantry. The Stugs regrouped and recovered moved into the town from the east. They tried to fire point blank at the American infantry but American OBA struck again and disrupted two of the Stugs after their initial shots. The American infantry began to waver when one of the demoralized INF's failed and had to flee out of the town. The German infantry was still hampered by disruption and demoralizations and could not recover their leaders. The GREN's and ENG's continue to take pot shots at the Americans but without leaders they were stuck. In the end the Americans were able to hold out with the help of low German morale.

A good game with Josh. Always a twist and turn that throws you off. I looked good to start but American OBA and good dice rolls slowed and then stopped the German advance.