GD Tournament

[von Nev]

Spoiler alert . . . .

As the French in this scenario I realized at the start of turn 2 that they were toast and I would lose the scenario. Since I saw no way to hold the 500 VP hex in the face of A morale Germans I abandoned the VP hex and pulled back and decided to just try to avoid a major loss.

Once a couple of infantry units released I tried a pathetic attempt to advance on the German town and was slaughtered. I pulled back and waited for the rest of the French armor to release. Once the French armor released I had ONLY the French armor next to the Germans for the remainder of the game. This reduced counterfire damage significantly and the French armor chewed up a bunch of German infantry units. The French armor eventually disrupted one that was preventing me from getting adjacent to the VP hex/town and I assaulted it thus getting a stack of French armor next to the VP hex/town. The last turn was spent beating up on German infantry and AT guns on the VP hex. This strategy got me to around 450 VPs.

In retrospect I think the Germans could have really routed the French if my opponent went on the offense. The French infantry was just too weak and were disrupting all over the place. I would have been forced to pull back the French armor and try to prevent the infantry from being surrounded.