Germans hiding in the vicinity of a fortified farm hope that the Americans get hung up trying to cross a river in order to attack them. They expect reinforcements as do the Americans. The Americans not only have to cross the river on a rickety bridge but they have to slog through a significant swamp before reaching the farm.

The Americans have three victory conditions: hold the brige and its approaches, get a substantial number of men in good order across the river and take the farm. At first I thought, "How simple, we have the ability to capture the bridge and get most of our men across prior to the German reinforcements arriving. This is a cakewalk. Someone didn't see this early on." I thought, after reading the conclusion and seeing a second scenario about the same farm that there was something terribly wrong about the force composition.

I did, indeed, capture the bridge and get my men across but in trying to get out of the swamp I found that the German PARA were more than happy to give me a terrible bruising with substantial losses and lots of demoralizations. The key to a minor victory for the Americans turns out to be to accept a minor victory and not strive for anything more. The Germans await them on dry ground and can make them pay for trying to get out of the swamp.

This was a reasonably fun scenario with the surprise of having to hide to get the victory as opposed to the walkover it appeared to be at first glance. I give it a "3".