French set up with 3 stacks of infantry, one INF and one RES with a leader, one stack defending the bridge, one in the western town where they could watch the river to the west for crossings, and one more dug in on the east edge of the hill where it could watch for eastern river crossings but also lend some fire support to the troops in town. The HMG, was in the eastern town hex with one of the tanks, the other tank with the tank leader set up next to the eastern French position, again to lend support or to stop river crossing attempts, and the French 37mm gun was in the town hex just west of the bridge. Germans set up the mortar in the small town northeast of the bridge, and alternating stacks of either 2 bicycle units or one and an HMG so that they could fire across the river but also be protected by either woods or towns, with one stack and the engineer to the west just around the woods where he couldn't be seen by the French left. French won initiative for the first turn and just about every other turn after, and Germans chose to engage at long range and do as much direct fire damage as they could before forcing the bridge, while the engineer moved to prepare for a river crossing. French were happy to exchange long range fire but the central stack defending the bridge became demoralized after 3 turns prompting a German rush that the French were unable to dislodge. The German river crossing was having some difficulty (couldn't manage to roll the needed 7 or less for anything), and the French were happy to watch and laugh at the Germans getting their nice shiny boots all wet instead of moving to do something about them. The central town hex became engaged in assault by the Germans and became something of a stalemate, as both sides caused some disruption and then both sides shook it off turn after turn. The central town hex finally fell to the Germans, but by then the French tanks had taken up station next door along with the HMGs and defended with but a single step loss to the tanks, while the French troops in the west moved into position to stop the Germans and became engaged also in assault. French luck failed them as they suffered step losses, became demoralized, and then failed their morale checks to lose even more. The last turns saw Germans taking all but the single town hex contested by 3 steps of tanks and the HMG while Germans rotated good order troops through to try to take out the tanks. In the end, the one hex was still contested, but the Germans had a firm grip and full control of the bridge hex with nothing in sight to contest that. German victory total - 14 steps of French destroyed, and 10 points for control of the bridge for 24 points, to a single step and a demoralized unit still on the board for 2 points for the French. Major German victory.