Played face-to-face against Matt W in less than 2 hours.

With us concluding scenario #09 much earlier than anticipated, we took a look at the next scenario and determined we had time to play it.

I set up the bulk of the German troops just south of the road, hoping to cause enough disruption and demoralization to the British initial advance to give me time to fall. I felt I made two critical mistakes on my setup: (1) my stacks were mostly 1-unit, not strong enough to repulse the early assaults, and (2) I had almost no reserve to plug holes.

My front line caused some disruption and demoralization but enough British troops made it and were able to assault my troops on turn 2. The net result was about half my troops were tied up in assaults and it gave the British freedom of movement.

The British commander used that freedom to move some infantry south on the hill, with tank support just behind them. With the German having no infantry reserve and not enough infantry reinforcements to offer strong opposition, the British pushed their infantry towards the exit point with their AFV watching, daring my Panthers to stop them. The Panthers tried (a little) but there were too many British troops; I conceded a few turns early.

British victory.

I gave this one a “3” and believe it’s a good candidate to be played over Skype. I would not mind replaying it someday because I was disappointed with my setup.