A aerial view of the battlefield appears in the first picture. The miniatures are 1/72 Airfix figures. Each mini represents a combat team. Germans enter from the NE and NW corners. They have six units in each corner plus one Tiger tank. The Germans will advance directly toward their objective, the church. They will seek to overpower any opposition directly.
The US forces are equal in size to the Germans. They have a halftrack instead of a tank. They will advance in skirmish order and will seek cover whenever possible.
Units advanced at six inches per turn. Three turns were used during the advance. The next pictures show either side of the church from the US perspective where the units were close enough to fire on each other. Hits were determined by cards (3 or higher was a hit). Each hit was followed by a save card. 1 or 2 was a kill. 3 or 4 was disabled. 5 or 6 was uninjured. The tank and halftrack hit hard (plus 2) so 1-4 was a kill. They also were hard to kill. They were only destroyed with an ace on the save card. Being under cover also added 1 to the save card.
Initially, the shooting caused about equal damage to both sides. However, some of the US troops were shooting from cover while the Germans were not. Eventually, the US took out the Tiger by drawing an ace on a save card and moved up to use it as cover.
I lost count of the rounds, but the battle was fast and enjoyable. The cards worked as well as dice. The battle was closer than expected, given the automated rules for the enemy forces. Drawing an ace against the Tiger was a lucky break for the Americans. If the Germans had sought cover, and if the Tiger was not destroyed, the result could have been different.
The battle took place on a card table. This proved to be a large enough space. Better terrain might be nice. The church was made with foam board and the stone walls were chunks of wood painted white. I guess it is time to go internet shopping for terrain.
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