Shortly after acquiring Spearhead Division, I knew my first scenario would have to include the Jadgtiger. So I selected "The Beast." The basic American approach was to, naturally, lead with the armor and create a blocking wedge for the vulnerable halftracks to disgorge their infantry without fear of being hit by AT when still loaded. The Germans placed the reduced Panther, the PZ-IV, and the SS 75/41 forward, with the barely-mobile (but highly potent) Jagdtiger further back, but forward of the towns. The SS held the larger town and the Heer the smaller one.

The Americans got off to a good start when a P-47 strike took out the Panther and an M36 wiped out the PZ-IV; artillery blasted the SS 75/41 also (and not long after that, the Heer 75/41 went down.) The M3's thus had carte blanche to close on the town and disgorge their powerful foot soldier contingent, which - accompanied by their former mounts - soon began to grind away at the towns (though German off-board artillery and SS firepower caused a good deal of trouble.)

But the American attack took a gut punch from the Jagdtiger. Over several turns, the Yanks set up any number of crossfire AT attacks (the only way to hope to dent the "8" armor of The Beast) but none of them worked, and in the meantime the Jagdtiger must have taken out four or five full tank platoons. Only a couple units were left to slink away after the Beast had made its one attack per turn, and when the second wave of CCA showed up, they stayed out of the line of fire until visibility began to drop and they could safely skirt the behemoth.

Once night fell, the Jadgtiger needed to move in order to stay in the fight - and promptly broke down in the first hex it moved into. It was done after that, except the once or twice visibility was "2" for the turn. And then, after clearing the 3-hex town, the Amis closed on the Beast with infantry and, on the final turn, wiped it out in an assault. By then, the US (greatly aided by the second-wave armor that skirted the Beast) had cleared all but one town hex, which was still under assault and defended by a lone full-strength SS GREN.

The German position was in dire straits, but the armor losses due to the concerted effort to take out the Jadgtiger ultimately gave the Germans a 43-38 VP edge, just enough to eke out a minor victory.