The scenario is essentially a race across two and a half maps to see if the U.S. glider troops can make it to the town. It was looking good for the GIs, since the Germans kept missing their reinforcement rolls in the early turns. Long story short, one U.S. INF unit got caught in a crossfire between a German HMG (with +1 fire factor for leadership) in an urban hex and two stacked GRENS (with +2 fire factors due to two +1 leaders). No U.S. steps were eliminated, but the INF unit in the crossfire got caught in a "morale loop" (lose morale, recover, lost morale, recover, lather rinse, repeat) and couldn't advance. Only three steps made it to the Board 3 town, so it ended as a draw.

This scenario played far more tense and exciting than I thought it would.

As noted in the AAR by dricher, the victory conditions for the Americans are impossible. So, I treated the victory conditions as requiring five STEPS, not units.

Still not a very exciting scenario. The Germans set up in the town and got only two infantry platoons as reinforcement, one of which was demoralized by American artillery on the way in.

The Americans opted to run past the Germans and they tried to slow them down with Opportunity Fire. Despite a couple of disruptions, the Americans recovered quickly and moved past for the win.

This scenario needs errata. The American win condition requires five UNITS (very specific, vs steps for German and similar unit vs step in Juncture II) that enter board 1 to reach the town on board 3. Unfortunately, there are only four units to start. No chance of victory. If the correction is four units, the Germans only need stop one unit from making the race to prevent the victory. Even with no Germans on the board the American HMG would need 10 of the 12 turns to reach the town. With Germans, fuhgeddaboutit. Perhaps the requirement is three? Since I seem to be the first to notice this error (can't find errata anywhere for this scenario), I'm guessing the world may never know.

I play anyway, the Americans hoping for their draw, but pushing for the town nonetheless. The Germans get early reinforcements, and a unit of Grens reinforce the town occupying HMG before the Americans can even get to the town. The Americans cannot risk the charge to assault range, as the opfire would come in on the 45+ column (Lt adds one to the combined 15 strength, shift for opfire, two for adjacent...). So, it's time to move around the town. The other Grens join, both move in a blocking position just outside the board 3 unit fire range, and the German HMG just rips dispersals on moving Americans. One of the units does not recover for SIX TURNS, another for five turns. With two units basically immobile, the other two manage to reach the town. No matter how you slice it, not enough units reach the town (I assume). But, the Germans inflict zero step losses. A boring, confusing draw. Even the American OBA can't generate goodness, only showing three times and failing to hit on two of those bombardments. The Germans should have charged the disrupted units earlier, but motivation was apparently lacking.

Ugh.