Advise Urgently Needed - QB Scenario Settings For 'Relief Of Bastogne Tournament'

[Vulture]

Guys

If any of you have time today, I'd appreciate some feedback on the map and settings I'm proposing for 'The Relief Of Bastogne' Round 1. (Which I'd like to start either today or tomorrow)
http://www.667.hab.dsl.pipex.com/Wargami...Rules.html

I want this first game to be short and brutal and the forces involved smallish.

At the moment I have the Rarity setting to None. I want the tournament to have a Battle Of The Bulge feel to it, BUT am concerned that the CMAK rarity settings don't reflect the availability of troops/hardware for that battle, plus I'm not sure I want to restrict players choices... I'd appreciate your thoughts on this topic (whether you are in the tournament or not).

So the questions are:

1. Should rarity be None, or Standard ?

2. Does 1,500 points seem about right for that map ?

3. Is 17 turns variable okay, or could I make it shorter (or have I got it completely wrong and it needs to be longer....?)

Thanks for your help :)

Cheers

Vulture