This scenario is another Andrew Rodgers design of Action Pack #16, which means that you are in for a close brawl with tough gut punches...
Set in Germany in October 1944, it pits the the attacking Americans vs. a mix of 548s and 447s with ample MGs that can dish out serious firepower against the GIs closing in on their 'castle' on the famously constricted board 46 town. Needless to say, to flush out the 'castle', the Americans have yet more firepower and are supported by no less than 5 Shermans in this 5.5 Turn tournament-sized scenario, but they are burdened by their lesser Morale while 'sucking it up'.
In our playing, we made a mistake by getting the German setup-area wrong, by allowing them to set up ON and south/east of the specified hexgrains rather than merely south/east of.
A full AAR can be found at GameSquad forum under the following link:
A challenging scenario for both players. Based on his setup I thought that a double-envelopment from EE5 and Board 53 would work. I opened by moving hard and fast against the screening defenders Tom placed in V8, freezing them with my Shermans and killing them in CC with my infantry, which knocked him down by a squad and a leader in Turn 1. I chose to send my reinforcements on an end run around Board 53, hoping to interdict his Turn 2 reinforcements but they ended up getting bogged down and shot up by the Mk4 he put behind the wall in Z9, resulting in the loss of my 76L Sherman and the near loss of a second 75mm Sherman. I chose to make my other effort to cross the street from building CC7 into BB7/CC8 only to run into his MMG and 75mm Inf Gun -- which was soon backed up by another Mk4, the combined weight of which threw me back to rally and regroup. Not having sufficient mass to effect a penetration on either flank, I shifted my forces to the center where I found a weak point. I managed to get into the building at Z6 and the graveyard, thereby threatening the woods in AA8 and position myself to outflank his defenders in BB8 and AA9, who's attention was focused on my reformed effort across the street. By that time he had malfed and recalled his second Mk4, lost three or four squads due to a combination of K results and failure to rout, and a leader. I wasn't sure it was over, but by that point it was 0200 hrs, Tom failed his Player Morale Check, and conceded.
