This scenario looks interesting and balanced to me so I went for it. Plus I really like how AP pretty much covers the whole Battle of The Bulge with: Battle of The Bulge, Elsenborn Ridge-Battle of The Bulge 2 and Winter Soldiers. The victory objectives are excellent in this scenario and the Americans don’t have to worry about step losses either. Both sides have a nice mix of forces and finally the American have an armored force of: 6 x M4, 2 x M4/76, 1 x M18, 1 x M36 and 6 x M3 that can handle the German 1 x Panther, 1 x StuG IIIG, 1 x SPW 251 and some AT guns. Both sides have similar Infantry & support units but the Americans get Off-Board Artillery.

The Germans had two places they had to defend: the cross roads on map 25 and the town hexes on 24 so they pretty much had to split up their forces. The American move forward and engage the German armor right away, yes they lose some steps but they have so much quality armor this time, that the blow away the German armor can call pretty much clear the hill top cross-roads at will, then they re-gather their forces and head for the town of Manhay, where they lose a few more steps to AT Gun and Infantry assaults but with all their Armor, Off Board Artillery, Infantry, Engineers and halftracks they take enough town hexes for a major American Victory.

• This was a great scenario that hit the spot for me. I guess I just like the subject matter, the victory conditions and the fact that the Americans finally had the right makeup of armor to deal with the German armor, though it was smaller in size.