The 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion had been formed in 1942 and trained in jungle warfare in the Panama Canal Zone for combat drop on the French-ruled island of Martinique in the Caribbean. Sent to Europe when the island shifted to Free French allegiance, they had jumped into southern France in August 1944 and were with Seventh Army when they were summoned to the Ardennes as an emergency reinforcement. Despite massive losses, they pushed forward toward the town of Rochelinval, dominating the last intact bridge over the river Salm.

The "Goya" ("Get Off Your Ass") Battalion had gotten this far after days of limited sleep and rations and bitter hand-to-hand fighting, including a charge with fixed bayonets. The took Rochelinval in a bloody assault termed a "suicide mission" by their commander when he was denied artillery support. The 551st held, having lost 70 percent of its men - in Company A, only seven men remained standing. A month later the 110 survivors were distributed among units of the 82nd Airborne Division and the unit stricken from Army rolls. With its commander, Lt. Col. Wood Joerg, killed in action and battalion records destroyed, the battalion simply disappeared until 2001 when it received a Presidential Unit Citation for the stand at Rochelinval.

This is the introductory scenario, the first one in the revised list. In the original game it was the Forgotten Battalion, the last in the book.

Use a German Army SdKfz-9 in place of the Luftwaffe counter, if no Luftwaffe counter is available.

This scenario is completely playable using the maps and pieces from Battle of the Bulge 2: Elsenborn Ridge