The victory conditions are clear. Each side has to take/hold towns and eliminate enemy steps. Each side has plenty of armor but what a strange group of tanks. Some are under-gunned and over-armored. Some have adequate guns but very light armor. Some have light armor and no guns! The French deploy a deep defense with the intent of requiring the Germans to assault as many towns as possible. They locate their AT and armor wide to set up cross-fires.

The Germans advanced cautiously to move into cross-fire positions of the first line of French. As they approached French armor broke ranks and charged the German armor. This counter-intuitive move blasted many more German steps than French steps. Score one for the brave (suicidal) French tankers. The Germans continued the assault through the first village. Steady progress with steady casualties. Be sure to bring and protect that ENG unit!

The German 88mm was the only gun that could confidently take out the heavily armored French tanks. So it is another of those "how do a get a gun in place and unlimbered without the loaded trucks getting blasted by AT or bombed" problems. This 88mm managed to blast two tank steps before unceremoniously dispatched by the French arty on the next hill.

The remaining German armor (mostly reduced units) spread wide to encircle the remaining French armor. There was a complicated array of cross-firing from both sides. I even had to use markers to remember which tank got attacked from which hexside!

Although it was fun combined arms scenario it wasn't fun for the French player. The Germans scored a major victory. Maybe a point defense would have been better.