The Germans set up approximately 25% of their force in each quarter of the board, using the north-south and east-west roads as a grid to divide it. US forces set up in or near the large town in the middle of the board. I set up SS assault forces with 3 of them supported by mortars, giving the panzers to the southwest and southeast quadrants. US forces set up with Shermans in both southern-most town hexes supported by infantry in each, the M18 and infantry in the northwest and the halftrack, an Infantry and an LT in the northwest hex, with the Major, 2 infantry and a mortar in the central-western hex and just a mortar and infantry in the central-eastern hex. This gave all-round good defense against assaults, with the US M3 offering it's fire support. The victory conditions offered one point per US step exited from the north edge, so I thought I might send the halftrack loaded for the points I might get from that. Germans went in to assault the Eastern half of the town as they could start right there in the woods within distance to get to those adjacent hexes, while on the western side, they needed a few turns to maneuver into that range. Naturally, the defense was able to take out some SS troops as they approached, but this was a bit of a blood bath today. Lots of 2s and 12s in the initial turns. Those German troops that did make it to assaults got stuck there for turn after turn as the stacks were slowly bled dry and the US troops managed to make nearly all their morale rolls. It came down to the last full German unit, one of the Mk IVs which a mixed US Para and Infantry stack had gone out to assault, trading fire unsuccessfully for some turns before turn 12, when the US troops succeeded in getting 2 AT shots, but managed to get a 13, killing both steps. Other than the 3 German mortars, there was a single step HMG element left adjacent to the southwest Mortar, and with the lack of success the mortars had had all game, I called it a day. Great game,31 US points to nothing.