US units of 7 Stuarts, 4 Lees, 2 M-3/75s, a T-30, an M-3/81 and an M6 attempt to take 3 hills and eliminate 5 points of Germans. Germans defend with 3 infantry, a 75mm AT with truck to tow, a Pz IIIH, a Pz IVF2 and a Pz IVH with 3 leaders for the German infantry. I deployed the German infantry on the southwestern hill, dug in with 2 units toward the center of the hill preventing them from being targetted from a lower elevation, and the last with the 75mm AT and truck in the southeastern hex where the AT gun could come into action fairly early but be supported by a German leader. I placed the Mk-IIIH on the eastern interior hex (0303) and the Mk IVH on the western hex (0503) of the southeastern hill, and placed the Mk IVF2 on the ridge north of the road at 0412 where it could block anything coming in that direction pretty well. The US comes in from the East, except for the Lees that come from the south. I attacked directly the southeast hill with 4 Stuarts while moving the Lees into a blocking position to the southwest of the hill. The rest of the Stuarts went straight for the ridge line, supported by the T-30, while the 2 M-3/75s supported the Stuarts on the southeastern hill and the M-3/81 found a good place to fire from in the rocky ground just south of the road at 0208. The initial rush on the southern hill caused the German armor to pull back to the northwest to avoid being surrounded, which gave the Americans a false sense of superiority. Right away, the 75mm AT got a good shot off and took a step of Lees. Lees, Stuarts and M-3/75 tank destroyers took a turn to shoot at the withdrawing panzers to no effect but felt good in having taken the one hill. To the north, the Panzer traded ground for time, falling back to the west, while the Stuarts and tank destroyers moved west and tried to get a crossfire. The US troops managed a crossfire and took one step of Pz IIIs just in time to see the Pz IVF2 join the fray, and quickly lost a step from 2 of the 3 tank units. Trading fire, they managed to get a step from the Mk IVF2 and kill the Mk III but lost 2 more steps and the last element flee off the east side of the board. It's tough on fleeing units when there are no woods or towns. The Germans in the north traded shots with the remaining tank destroyers, eliminating the M-6 by turn 10. Meanwhile in the southwestern hill, the mortar fire and fire from an M-3/75 killed the 75mm gun and truck but failed to cause any damage to the dug in infantry. The other German Mk IV had moved to hex 0906 to support the infantry just in time as Stuarts and an M-3/75 moved to assault the 0905 hex. The dug in troops took a few turns to die, but die they did, while the Stuarts were worn down and replaced by Lees. The German armor and infantry from the 1005 hex joined in and two steps of Lees died quickly to the step loss for the Mk-IVs. Fleeing tanks lost another step but made it off the south side of the board and the remaining M3 tank destroyer was killed in the last round of assault combat, leaving the M-3/81 to make a hasty retreat off the east edge, the sole undemoralized survivor. German minor as the US succeeded in the one goal of 5 or more steps of Germans eliminated. Good game.