Looking at the map, you can see that the battlefield is divided by an unfordable river running north to south. NATO enters from the western (left) map edge. The Soviets set up in the town of Tanenhause or in the large forest west of the river.
I debated deploying infantry in the forest, but decided I needed to be able to fall back over the bridge in an emergency, so I kept everything except a BMP platoon and two infantry platoons east of the river. I deployed my headquarters well out of sight in the southern end of town, and parked my second platoon of BMP's in the lone farmhouse and orchard north of the bridge. Team Bravo sent its platoon of Abrams tanks into the northern woods, where they were disrupted by fire from the western edge of Tanenhause. His infantry force moved into Brikhause, and were also disrupted (one of the M113's, along with its embarked troops were reduced in the process). Kurt had a number of single-activation turns, which negated the force-multiplier effect of his two activation chits. On the other hand, the scenario doesn't seem to have a turn limit, so there's no need for the U.S. to rush forward (correction: the scenario ends after 9 turns). Kurt began systematically bombarding my outlying forces. He reduced the BMP and infantry units on his side of the river (I revealed my Sagger to be the platoon west of the bridge), and I was the victim of several out-of-ammo situations. Eventually, after I pulled all of my vehicle units back over the bridge, he moved to the south of the large forest by the river and began taking up positions to approach the bridge from that protected route. I had three rifle platoons stacked west of the river though, and they assaulted, in waves, a hex containing Bravos' headquarters, M-1 and an infantry platoon. The first assault was 6 soviet dice to 7 US dice. He took two hits, I took three and fell back. The third platoon assaulted as well, wiping out the US infantry and killing his headquarters. My tanks drove over the bridge and occupied their jumping-off point as back-up. We called the game at that point because real-life intruded. It was a hell of a scenario, I thought. The attack, again, proved to be a tough proposition, even for nimble NATO forces. If Kurt had had a few more double-activations, it could have been much uglier for me. It's a good, tight little scenario. One I'd like to play again.
