In a bid for promotion this year I am going to play a few smaller scenarios. This 12 turn 1 mapper took about 2 hours. The French are on the attack on this one and have to take town hexes and steps for VP, they outnumber the defenders by 2-1 but have lower firepower and apart from the ESC units lower morale. The German's set up dug in front of the village of Haut-Le-Wastia, a decision was made not to defend the smaller hamlet to the south, this was an error and cost the Germans the game as those 3 village hexes were the VP's that cost the Germans victory. The French attack from the NW and SW determined to flank the dug in Germans, the German INF abandon the dug outs and retreat into the town. A lucky 7 OF shot resulted in the first casualties as the French machine gunners moved to set up in woods to the south of the town. The first French attack though was from the North though and the brave French INF & ESC managed to brave German defensive fire and get to grips with the enemy, French armoured cars then threatened the rear of Haut-Le-Wastia the German commander reacted and threw an INF unit into the assault against this threat this tied these units up for the rest of the game. The middle part of the game passed very quickly as neither side could gain an advantage in any of the three ongoing assaults and the French commander was going to wait to the final few turns before making his last assault with all his remaining units. Thus on GT 11 the penultimate turn the French moved in force on to the village, good defensive fire took out another French units and a quick counter attack in assault also caused some French losses but by now every German unit was in assault which let a single French INF unit slip to take another town hex. The final result was a draw as although there had been no German losses the town of Haut-Le-Wastia was no longer in their control. A quick and fun little scenario, the German defender and a lot of ground to cover and there is more to this one than a pure infantry slog.