The US set up in four groups: one holding the cross-roads and one each holding the northern and southern road on board 25 leaving two platoons of INF in St. Vith itself. The Germans came on-board with a company and anti-tank gun each to the north and south; with the main group entering just south of the E-W road using cover.

The Americans moved forward aggressively. At first, I thought I had erred as German OBA accounted for a step in each of the first two turns. However, US morale and marksmanship soon disrupted, literally, the Volksgrenadiers. The best German leader, a 9-0-2 Captain was demoralized after two sequential morale checks and a triple-stack of HMGs, intended to provide the softening up prior to a Gren assault, was morale-failed into chaos. US artillery combined for 32 and 24 factors and this led to mostly disrupted/demoralized German stacks. About the only good news for the Germans was getting a step of M5's via their towed AT guns, but even then the reduced step made its morale check of '5'.

After turn four, the German step losses = 7; US = 6, but the Germans had 6 units/leaders demoralized and 9 disrupted. On turn 5, the US rolled its reinforcements (6xENG) on board which, together with the two reserve INF platoons, constituted almost a full battalion counter-attack.

Although the Germans finally emerged victorious in one assault hex, the arrival of the ENGs meant the best the Germans could do was to pull back, reorganize, and try again on another day.

US major victory.