How could KGP have achieved more?

[Gordon]

On a related note, the Luftwaffe operation Bodenplatte on New Year's Day 1945 destroyed 22 P-47s and heavily damaged 11 more at one airfield near Metz, for the loss of 8 fighters. Within days, all the P-47s were replaced with factory-fresh ones and operations resumed. Overall, the Luftwaffe lost 143 pilots killed and missing, 21 wounded and 70 captured. The Allies lost relatively few personnel, and all the lost aircraft were replaced within a week.

 

[T34]

Just finished my 3rd reading of Time for Trumpets, an excellent book. One question I keep coming back to is how could KGP have achieved more than they did? High water mark in the area of Stoumont Station, neat Stoumont. I'm asking what could KGP themselves, 1st SS panzer etc done differently - with what they knew at the time, to result in greater results by Peiper?

Not being Nazis.