SS hold the large hill on board 25, setting up within 2 hexes of the east-west road. US enter from the north with armor coming in randomly on a later turn starting on turn 2. I set the SS up with a halftrack and infantry in a line along the hill top so they could engage US troops fairly early if they chose to come down the north-south road. Every other hex had an HMG unit with an infantry and a halftrack to give a little more firepower. The Mk IV was at the west end of the German line, and the SS LTC stayed a hex back from the line with the mortars while the AT gun was set up on the 40meter hill overwatching the road. US split up with paras and the Major walking in on line on the US right, and the regular Rifle units on the US left, with 3 halftracks loaded with 2 infantry, an HMG, the Captain and 2 LTs, which tried to make an unsuccessful road entry hoping to end up in the light woods and out of sight of the AT gun. I rolled to see which halftrack was hit when the AT gun rolled a 12 for the hit, and naturally, it was the one with the Captain. US airpower was active nearly every turn and did quite a bit of damage, most often with the P47s making an appearance. US troops did a little bit of damage of the German line and then moved in to assault down the line. The Mk IV had adjusted it's position to the east end of the halftracks when the US armor appeared, so it was not present to bolster the line as US paras and SS troops entered assault the length of that side of the front while arty and tanks pounded the hill top. The Mk IV exchanged fire and killed one Sherman unit (both steps) before it was destroyed by fire from the other Sherman and the M18. The German AT gun fell in assault and the rest of the Germans holding the hill bogged things down for a while, but by turn 10, things were pretty good for a US victory. SS were fleeing the field, even the LTC fled and as he recovered and started gathering other survivors, he was struck first by a successful arty strike followed by an air strike, killing the LTC and causing a step loss for the one SS unit that was with him. A fleeing Captain was the immediate next in line of command for the SS, and he rallied just short of the board edge so he could take charge. Overall, the Germans gave up the roads and the hill and were gathering the last surviving unit to try to make a presence again on the east-west road as the random game end came along at the start of turn 13. The US troops had rallied most of their troops and formed a line south of the east-west road, and had cleared the north-south road, so the Germans didn't get any points for holding terrain, and had only eliminated 19 steps, so in the end, it was a Major US Victory. Great game.