This situation was one of my all-time favorite ASL scenarios. The different scale of PG gives a much different feel, but the results are just about the same that I got before. I placed Barkman's Panthers in the nothernmost town hex with an infantry platoon and LT to keep US infantry from trying to walk in and take the town, the next town down the road got a 75mm AT gun, it's tow, and an infantry platoon with a CPT, the next town south of the river got the other 75mm AT, another infantry and the Col. The rest of the SS were placed similarly in the rest of the town hexes except for the mortars, 20mm AA gun, the halftrack tow vehicle and another infantry, which was placed to give some covering fire for the southern towns from 0506 and 0406. The US tanks started getting their backsides bitten as soon as they entered the board centered along the trail while the US infantry used the hedgerows to cover their approch. The US lost 4 steps of tanks on that very firs turn for 8 points, going from a slight initiative advantage to a lower initiative. The surviving Shermans worked to regroup and attack but ended up losing every last tank in the 2 companies. A lucky OBA shot demoralized the LT and eliminated both steps of infantry in the tow but left Barkman intact and on the prowell. The US major lead his troops along the elevated tracks and then through the swamp but more OBA and DF directed from the town lead by the SS Colonel demoralized the infantry that spent the next few turns avancing to the rear while the rest of the US infantry tried to advance to engage and try to take that town hex. At the halfway point of the scenario, with the points at 20-2 favoring the Germans, and with even taking a town and exiting a few units off the south of the board not really giving enough positive victory points to draw, I ended the bloodshed. Good game, and my first in a month. Interesting that the new cat was nearly as dangerous to the game as Barkman was.