This scenario was played over Skype with Alan Sawyer over the course of just a five hours. We take turns to chose scenario's and this one was my choice so Alan therefore had choice of sides. This scenario is a little deceptive a quick look at the OOB's and terrain would suggest that the Boche have an advantage, although equal in terms of infantry the Germans have more tanks and the French have a broad front to defend. I like Alan would have taken the German side given the choice. However the German tanks are mainly PZI's and PZII's who can not match the French Souma's the French are given three tank leaders which means they can act either as a group or interdependently the French morale is also good. I deployed on a broad front keeping back two platoons of tanks in reserve. Alan came on in two groups, a main force in the middle of the board and a smaller force of PZ11's and on platoon of accompanying infantry in the south. The southern force was obviously meant to draw my reserve off, I decided to take the bait hoping to get some easy tank kills and drive the German initiative down quickly and still have tome to use those reserve tanks for the endgame. This did not work totally to plan and in fact it took nearly the whole game to neutralize this southern thrust however I did so without losing any units so gaining me VP's. This meant that my infantry and HMG units would have to hold out on their own. They did so thanks to a reasonable set up on my part and couple of lucky shots for which I take no credit. We also had 3 or 4 short turns which also helped. The Germans failed to make little headway against my units in the central village and although making inroads into the northern village using combined arms attacks the game ended with a major French victory. Highlight of the game was taking out the PZIII with my reduced Souma unit just before Alan was about to announce a flanking shot ( 11 needed 11 got)very lucky. I think this is a good scenario I would agree with Alan that the French have a slight advantage but not enough to make it not winnable for the Germans, it would be an excellent learning scenario for newer players, it is quick to play and there are, considering how small the scenario is, lots of different units to play with. I would certainly play it again and would take the German side so it gets a 4 rating from me.