This scenario pits dug in US troops against dug in German troops across a valley between two hill masses. Germans are defending against a large bunch of US troops with some tank, 37mm AA and AT guns and a T-30 halftrack, and themselves have 3 AT guns, 3 mortars, and an abundance of infantry, HMGs and leaders. My forgetting to account for the reduced visibility as dusk approached had little effect since artillery was having little effect on either side and mortars spent much of the game taking pot shots at their enemy counterpart with the occasional disruption and a demoralization or two. The US spent the first turn dropping all their arty on the enemy, trying to do some damage before moving across the valley into assault on the hills against dug in troops. The US had been set up so all their AT, AA and HMGs were in range at the beginning, but that one column shift for dug in really played havoc with their fire. Very little damage was done, even by the single US P-38 element that appeared and strafed a German position. Since time is limited in this 12-turn scenario, there is little time for the US to sit back and pound things, so turn two saw US infantry with leaders making assaults across the valley wile heavy weapons and OBA continued to try to soften up the targets. Once in contact, it became give-and-take for both side, but while US forces took the higher casualties, Germans started failing morale checks that even the high morale leaders couldn't help and the Germans started giving up ground. As dusk fell, artillery became more dangerous to friends than to foe, as both sides dumped fire onto their own positions with greater effect than on their enemy, so indirect fire ceased and it was left to the troops and tanks to slug it out. With the dark came a streak of German luck, as US rolls barely achieved anything and German rolls of 2 and 12 started coming way too often. In the end, US forces had lost 35 steps to only 16 for the Germans, and neither side was able to claim any terrain victory points as it was all still contested. Germans won a major victory on casualty points alone. Great game.