I played this solo so to replicate the ambush and hidden movement, I had the Americans continue to move forward on the road until contact was made.

The Germans set up with the infantry, Hetzers and ATGs on Board 25 in the light woods while the panther, Stug III and Pz IV platoons set up on the NE hill of Board 9. The plan was to hammer the lead US units then bring the infantry forward and have the Stug, Panther and Pz Iv platoons grab the center town.

This is what happened with the American infantry and M18 platoon halting in the first town and woods and dismounting.

The German tank and ATG gunnery was accurate and by Turn 4 all but one step of the Shermans were burning. The Germans got to the center towns with tanks and infantry. In the south, the German grenadiers got to the light woods, called artillery on a US Armored Infantry platoon which killed their halftracks. The US did kill a step of grenadiers and Germans pulled back, realizing there was no reason to risk losses in those woods.

At the end of Turn 4 it was already 31 to 9 in point and the Americans were not likely to gain anything else but death, so I called it. This one replicates an ambush, and it would be very tough for the Americans to win it.