One very rugged and close-fought face-to-face encounter with me playing the German side against a determined and persistent, hot-dice-throwing opponent. Both sides were exhausted after 20 turns and decided on a draw as the VP scores were virtually identical. The French managed an uncanny string a 5 consecutive lethal die rolls for their killer OB heavy self-propelled artillery, which was directed by well-placed observers. Slow moving German vehicles kept getting wrecked on the mountain trails by effective AT shooting (47mm APX platoons) and close assault tactics. German tracked vehicles moving off the trails consistently experienced bad morale checks. In fact, the German side generally had miserable luck in nearly all their morale checks, as well as in leader selection. Today, French infantry and combat engineers were particularly adept in close assaults and were particularly well-led. I plan on playing this scenario again with an online opponent, to see if today's battle of cardboard counters was a fluke -- or more likely -- whether my inept play and poor luck accounted for the bulk of Germany's battlefield woes.