This 20-turn scenario starts with 3 and a half US airborne platoons lead by an LTC, a CPT and an LT, attacking a German gun position. The variable German start strength was 3 Gren platoons lead by a CPT, an LT and a SGT. Two of those platoons with the 3 leaders strt holding the two western towns, while the third started alone and leaderless doug in in hex 0307, having had their LT and a 75mm INF Gun destroyed already by naval shellfire. The US LTC is subject to being called away to some other part of the battlefield on or after turn 10. The Airborne troops split up, the CPT leading the 2 full platoons toward the northwestern town while the LTC and LT took the other 3 steps towards where they were told to expect a battery of enemy artillery. Instead, the found only the dug in troops and traded fire. The northwest force moved right into an assault, the results of which caused no damage to the Germans but cost the attackers a full platoon, the other one having become demoralized and fleeing from the adjacent hex the turn before. The surviving US CPT evaded capture and made his way to the woods to the north to regroup the troops who fled there. The LTC and his troops took the worst of it in the exchange of fire at 307, the LTC being demoralized with the single step of paras and dleeing to the town at 0509 while the LT and the other platoon succeeded in moving into the hex with the dug in Germans. With the Germans victory being assured by the 2-step loss, the US fought on aiming for a draw, but the LTC got the message that his presence was needed elsewhere, and assalts were stalemating in both locations. Although the Germans lost a full 4 steps, the still held all the hexes needed for a US draw, and it looked like a lost cause at the end of 13 turns for them to be able to take all 3 hexes, so game called. Good game.