No doubt the best of the forty that I have played to date.

The set-up is much more subtle than a superficial glance suggests. For example, the US force is on foot, but must enter either through several hexes of fields (terrain mod) or strung along a road (or another trick): they are pressed to enter the large town quickly however. Likewise, the Germans must advance either south along a road or on board edges - wheeled vehicles like armored cars move slowly through wooded hills and they too are pressed to move quickly both to seal off the eastern board edge and get near the town before the US can consolidate as the VC conditions require the Germans both to block the road/board to the east, yet also mount successful assaults against the town hexes (or at least keep control of the road).

I will not detail this action because I think this one requires "both" sides to think carefully about how both to hold and to advance and the trade-offs for each (and thus I don't want to spoil the story). I'll simply say that this one was really fun offering any number of possible options (both with the smaller on-board 24 forces and how to organize the larger on-the-move units.

My scenario quickly changed from how I supposed it would evolve as vagaries of die rolls have huge positional ramifications. The M10 did sacrifice itself well destroying a step of PzIV-H before succumbing to Panther counter-fire. Pumas (SK234/2)came out on top of the M5 Stewarts in a battle of better armor vs. better gun as the US went for an early dash to the edge, but not unscathed.

US got off four countable steps (one of the M5's) before the Germans shut the eastern edge. Germans held the road to the east with no difficulty per se, and led by having fewer step losses for the middle/early late stages, but in moving for a major victory, lost several steps in town assaults. Also, the Germans SPWs were savaged by the US 57mm's and 105mm until the Germans could get close enough to lay on some DF (they only had a single stack of 3x81mm mortars -- one on a half-track) for artillery support.

So scenario ended in a minor victory for each side and, thus, a draw. Definitely recommended.