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Last night, our second game in the campaign was the result of US forces trying to push around the German defence of La Haye Besat by moving further to the south and attacking through the fields. Unfortunately the Germans had moved up Fallschirmjäger to cover the flank of the village defence and they met the advancing US forces among the patchwork of fields. The Germans had all the luck in this battle - from a fortunate initial roll for the advanced party, to a recce grouo that managed to avoid injury while despatching all attackers, to the US suffering such poor reinforcement rolls, that their almost 3 to 1 superiority in troops never played a part as their army arrived in such a piecemeal fashion.








It all went wrong for the US from the start. Their flanking recce group was obliterated to a man, while the huge mass of the main force was held up and shot to pieces by a handful of Fallschirmjäger and a cunningly placed Preregistered Target Point that allowed two batteries of supporting 80mm mortars to slam into the US troops every turn.










In the end, the US managed to lose by both exceeding their Battle Rating and losing to an all objectives secured victory in the same turn. Coupled with the amazingly light German losses, this game was a major German victory, securing a full three campaign points and a 10% troop bonus for the next game, which is just as well as it looks like the Germans are going on the offensive...