Note: first let me state, that you need to pull the British Daimler & Stag counters from Cassino ‘44 to play this scenario as they are not in the Beyond Normandy box.

This looked to be an interesting small cat and mouse scenario with the new Panzer Lehr counters. Both sides score points for eliminating enemy steps and the British only get points for exiting units off the south end of the map. The British must advance to do this, so they are the aggressor, because if no one moves or engages it’s a draw and why play this? But to exit units, the British must get through the German lines with PzIVF2s, PzIVHs and small amount of Infantry & SPWs blocking them. The British have twice the Armor and AFV’s but about the same amount of infantry, not many! Lots of British Cromwells in this scenario. I didn’t use the hidden rule, as the Germans don’t need any more advantage.

The Germans setup their armor in forward positions to engage the British right away and the British move forward with armor units of all types hoping to get by with sheer numbers. This plan didn’t work out as the British got hammered right away and their next best plan was to hope to activate first on the next turn and take out a few German steps, but that didn’t happen, the Germans activate first and hammered the British again. In the end, the British only exited a few units and took out a few steps but took such huge losses, that the Germans had and easy Major Victory!

Maybe I need to give this scenario another try, as I was frustrated with all my blown-up Cromwells at one point in the game.