Its not often in life and even more rare in wargaming that a plan works well. You often have to rethink or tweak as you go along. In this scenario everything for me sort of fell into place. My German foe had gone for a very liner defence with a line of minefields covered by strong points, entrenchments and wire. I had decided to use enginneers to help get units thru the minefields if possible and use M3 halftrack as sacrficial minefield finders. This they duly did and I got through the vaunted West Wall in short time. I then had to wrinkle the Germans out of the entrenchments and also deal with his Stugs. Here I had some luck winning the iniative just at the right time so I could move my armour around to deal with those pesky SPGs. I think this was my best win ever and also a most enjoyable game played in the right spirit against a good friend. Just why I started this mad hobby of ours.
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