I was in command of the Americans in this scenario. LTC Ballard wasted no time and sent his men up through the hedgerows to assault the primary objective. The assault was very successful and resulted in a hostile platoon casualty. Upon securing the town the Germans and a CPT exchanged fire into the town 400 meters away. The exchanges were a waste of time on both sides.

This point the LTC took a half strength platoon along with a 1LT to flank around the enemy and try to quite their constant mortar fire. In conjunction with this maneuver the CPT assaulted the town 400 meters from the primary objective. After surviving opportunity fire the assault commenced.

There were a couple of exchanges with the CPT before the LTC found the 81mm mortar teams on the edge of the map. The LTC and his half strength platoon assaulted through the hedgerows without success.

The Germans pulled a platoon of their Grenadiers out of the town to support the mortar platoon. The LTC knowing he was in trouble left the assault losing all of his men. Simultaneously the CPT captured the second town eliminating the HMG platoon.

Reinforcements had arrived a while back and now were online with the main force. The Germans were spotted digging into the secondary objective and the LTC ordered another assault. The new 1LT on the map quickly made a name for himself when he commanded the fire of two platoons on the dug in Germans and Disrupted the entire group.

The 1LT took inaccurate mortar fire and tried a second Direct Fire attack on the dug in units without success. The second time around the mortars were more accurate and disrupted the 1LTs platoons. All the fire gave the LTC the window he needed to move in for an assault on the dug in units.

Upon taking the initiative the LTC assaulted with a couple of platoons with little success. The CPT had moved up at this time and helped rally the 1LTs platoons and moved into help the LTC with the assault. The CPT being caught in the open took very accurate mortar fire but was able to come out alright with this platoon.

With the LTC assault reinforced, with the help of the CPT and his platoon, the dug in Germans 2 platoon were completely eliminated over the next 15 minutes. 2 German officers were spotted falling back to the dug in mortar position. The mortar team opened up on the LTC and he and his Engineer team were disrupted.

The LTC taking the initiative again ordered the CPT to assault the mortar team with two full strength para platoons. The assault was devastating to the Germans and the mortar team was eliminated.

The LTC ordered all positions to be held and no further German resistance was found.

In summary: First, I took a few gambles with leaving troops in the open at the end of a segment and made some key initiative rolls that were crucial in my assaults being successful. Second, I made some crucial assault rolls, I was either all miss or step loss given on my assault rolls. Third, the only thing about my overall strategy I question was when I took the LTC and 1LT to find and eliminate the mortar team. I didn’t realize it was a half strength platoon till I started the assault calculations. Then when the Germans sent reinforcements to that assault I knew I was in trouble and really questioned myself. After thoughts I realized that the LTCs maneuver forced the Germans to pull strength out of the town assault going on and eventually led me to successfully take the town and establish a battle line to press the assault on the final objective.