I have teenagers. I appreciate your sympathy. By and large having teenagers is a process of constantly poking yourself with knitting needles, sharpened knitting needles. They have, however, given me the opportunity to learn a whole new language and while the title of this AAR is somewhat dated in that lingo it did at one point in time express exactly the feeling that the Americans had to feel in this scenario.

Basically the situation is this. Two battalions of Americans, one Nisei have to advance across a mudsucking field and then climb up a hill, which is even more mud covered and finally attack two companies of dug in Germans with halftrack fire support.

To help with the sense of urgency there are only 17 turns to do this. While the numbers would seem to indicate an American romp the conditions make this a much more even battle than you would think. In my play the Americans finally made it to the top of the hill with about an hour and a half to go and they were able to pin the Germans with assaults while the free units captured the hills and town. With a little more luck the Germans could have stalled the Americans more and caused them to miss the opportunity to capture the territory they needed for the win.

Upon completion the American commander will feel like they need a shower to get the mud off. I give it a "2", very effective, though, at communicating the frustration of dealing with such terrible conditions.