There is something about trying to take on Tigers with Lees and Stuarts. The Allies have a lot of territory to cover in this one, with few units to do it with. I set up the 3 Lees forward on board 77 to try to trade shots and slow down the German advance. The British troops were deployed on hills on board 78, with the 6pdr and an infantry dug in on the edge of the wadi to try to get a shot at anything moving down the road. With the amount of turns, there was little need for the Germans to stay on the road, even the trucks could manage the slower off-road rate and the infantry ended in a position to exit within 2 turns had they been needed to achieve he 10-point exit target. I brought the Germans on, infantry in line, on the north half, Fallschirmjaegers on the south side, trucks towing guns along with the FJs with the plan of moving the 88 and 20mm guns up to a good hill spot in the rocky saddle of the southwest hill mass while the rest of the trucks and towed guns kept on heading west as part of the exit element. The 88 and 20mm guns got into position on turn 2 but couldnt get unloaded before the US got a shot off at them from one of the Lees. Bang, 2 dead trucks, with 88s and 20mm guns right along with them. Next, another forward Lee got a shot at the Pz III, reducing it but failing to disrupt or demoralize the surviving tanks. That was the last of the fun for the Lees, as the Tigers got into position and destroyed 2 steps of Lee with one shot and a single step of one just a bit further away with a second. The Mk III finished off the second Lee unit. German infantry on both flanks moved forward unopposed while the 3rd Lee tried to get into position to shoot up other trucks, but only managed to demoralize one before getting a step loss to the 75mm AT gun and then being finished off in assault bo the Fallschirmjaegers. Massed German infantry were storming the first hill on board 78 when the reinforcements arrived. The Tiger, having been targetted for assault by British troops from both the hill and from the wadi, and having shown them the error of their decision (being demoralized by adjacent hex 88mm fire), it turned and started killing Stuarts at a range of 7 hexes, easily killing outright every other shot and reducing the ones in between. Surviving Stuarts along with the British Crusader ran to assault German infantry to prevent the Tiger from killing more, but the Tiger just shifted fire and killed one of the M-3 units and killed a step of another, leaving only the M-3/81 to offer fire support, and then only for a turn before it also was destroyed along with the other M-3 step. Stuarts and the Crusader traded step losses, but the German infantry came out on top when the last Stuarts were left burning on the hill. By now, the German trucks and towed guns were exiting the board, the German SK 10/4 and the Mk III were assaulting the single British unit on the southeast hill and winning, and German air and OBA were taking a toll on the British troops holding the northeast hill. The FJs lost all their leaders attempting to assault the British AT gun, bren carrier and 2 steps of surviving British infantry that had fled back to cover after the Tigers quit shooting at them, but survived sitting in the adjacent hex exchanging fire, turn after turn, killing off all but the bren carrier and the 2 British leaders there, until more German infantry came south from the first hill. In 2 turns, the last British in the wadi and in the northwest hill had been eliminated, that happening on turn 19. The Tiger, not seeing more armor targets and getting board, headed off the board to fill out the last 3 points needed for exit conditions. Germans managed to pull off 2 of the 3 conditions, having lost 12 steps, but having destroyed or driven off all but 2 British leaders. German marginal win. Honestly, at the halfway point, it wasnt looking like they would make it. I nearly stopped at the end of turn 10 because the assaults in the center seemed to have bogged down and the Germans didn't look like they could get 2 of 3 conditions, or even one at the moment, but playing on proved they could do it. British infantry, even single steps, lasted a long time, and a single step unit in the northwest hill rolled an 11 and a 2, delaying two stacks that were headed towards assaulting it. Real nail biter, with no real effect from allied airpower but several moments when the German airpower did major damage, and both sides called in danger close fire missions and lucked out on friendly fire every time. Great game.