This was a 4 session, face-to face, play-through with the stalwart and determined Tambu as the defending American Commander. It almost ended in a draw, but for a remarkable, game turn 7 change in fortune. I played the bad-dice-throwing German side.

The primary objective for the Germans are control of the town hexes on Map 23 and they cannot afford to absorb more than a certain number of casualties taking them. Fortunately, though the German troops are green, they have considerably more artillery at their disposal than the US side. Ultimately, this made the difference in the game.

Opening the game with a very costly, headlong charge, the Germans established themselves in the majority of town hexes in the larger town, but failed to completely occupy the smaller one. One nasty close assault after another was the rhythm of this scenario, and the Americans initially suffered from repeated morale recovery failures and bad combat rolls. Suddenly, the fates intervened, and a long string of lousy die rolls struck the hapless Germans side. This nearly resulted in a drawn game, but very slowly the American force was whittled down, and the contested town hexes fell to the exhausted, often disrupted, German formations.

A fun scenario to play, but it was too unbalanced in favor of the Jerries to merit a 4. I gave this one a solid 3.