I decided not to blow the bridge. I didn't want to solo this with the intent of playing for a draw. One side will control the bridge, but what will the body count be?

The two reinforcing paras come in pretty quick, together on turn 3. The HMG never arrives, and American OBA only twice. Both sides make for the bridge with everything they have available. There's an intense fight for the bridge, and when the shooting is over the Americans lost one step with the remaining side demoralized, and the Germans lose the full strength Gren and both half steps are demoralized. One runs to town, the other to the woods with the German Captain. German arty kills off the demoralized Americans, but there isn't enough Germans left to get into combat again.

The Americans send two platoons after the Germans in the woods, and eventually kill them. The engineers dig in on the bridge, and the German arty can't manage another kill. The engineers manage to recover whenever they take a morale hit, and the Americans are knocking on the town doors as the clock runs out. The Americans hold the bridge and get the victory.

The Germans are very fragile. If they can inflict step losses early then the arty might take them over the top, but if they don't do enough damage the arty is unlikely to carry the day. The scenario started intensely, but became a drag after the initial battle. Nothing really wrong with the scenario, just didn't thrill me.