Holzthum-Consthum BotB #5

[Brett Nicholson]

Holzthum-Consthum - Battle of the Bulge scenario #5
Is this scenario really 68 turns long, or is this super high # meant to ensure there's a fight to the death?

It's been a few years since I played BotB but I believe a lot of the turns in this one go by quickly early on because they are spent mostly just slowly moving German troops through light woods to get to the town, apart from an American AT gun placed at the crossroads. You can of course use the strategic movement rule to get the German forces to the town faster. A few scenarios have a lot of turns listed that are passed by movement and this one I believe is really only the duration of about half the time listed until the fight for the town begins. One of the 'Afrika Korps' scenarios really flustered me until I actually committed to playing it; AK#2: "Capture of Giarabub" has 199 turns listed but I was able to finish it in 52 turns, which was still quite long. But the Holzthum-Consthum one moves a lot faster than the turn length makes it out to if I remember correctly. Good luck!