Played an odd little scenario OA3 Waiting for Fredendall winning as the attacking Germans. I've been on bit of a winning streak in this Operation Torch mini campaign my friend and I are playing but according to ROAR, the favored side has won them all except one that is now even. This one is not even. Though it has only a very limited amount of recorded playings, five for the Out of the Attic version and one from its previous publication, the British have never won. The set up is funky and I had to ask some questions about it on the ASL Rules and Errata section of this forum. To win, the Germans must pretty much eliminate the entire British force (no unbroken MMCs on board at game's end). There is a provision for the Brits to prevent the Germans from winning this way by exiting 5 VP off any board edge, but I see no way this is even possible. I think the Brits need to use a reverse slope defense and hope for the best. My opponent tried a partial one with some half squads manning the heights. They paid for it. My men crept up, the MTR halftracks shelled what they could, and by the end of turn 5 (of 7) there was only one fanatic British squad left so my friend called it. Even so, at one point half of my 16 squads were broken so it wasn't a cakewalk. I just couldn't pass a MC today. My friend on the other hand, went crazy with his MCs. He had two fanatics, two berserkers, and three (!) heroes - this with only 10 squads. That generated only one sniper for me. When you roll like that and still lose, that says something about the scenario.
Some problems the British face are being surrounded, of course, but also limited places to rout to. I was going to use my halftracks for smoke but broken men ended up routing to locations I had a LOS to so I shelled them. I normally don't like firing at broken squads other than to keep them under DM but the VCs forced me to. I'd give this a slight recommend for the Germans, but that's more of a reflection of my dislike of attacking reverse slope defenses. My friend recommends it for the British, but I think that's because of the incredible luck he had today. He lost, but he sure had fun until it was over. Objectively, I'd say not recommended for the British.