This was an interesting game. The German side had the plan to close to Holzthum from the south side, being covered by the woulds. Then they would wait for strong fog (=low spotting range) and than close in for the kill. The American commander got wind of this and decided to use the reinforcements as scouting units, moving them forward to spot the Germans, so than the large force around Holzthum could react. Of course this included the risk of an early step loss with the scouting units, endangering the whole battle, and this was exactly what happened. But at this point I learned how important even a lone surviving leader can be, they are quite hard to eliminate, IMHO. The American leader survived, rolled for great artillery support next turn, gained the initiative against all odds and had two direct hits against two German stacks. That slowed down and disrupted the German advance greatly and the Americans moved boldly forward to finish them off in an engagement in the woods south of Holzthum. This was probably too bold, because as the fighting developed into vicious assaults and counter-assaults losses mounted, and after loosing to many man the American commander decided to withdraw (6+ step losses led to a German minor victory at least, I stopped playing at that moment because of limited time (bad me)).