Craig Houliston's French held off Aaron Cleavin's determined Germans in FrF87 Mormal Forest. The French inflicted some tough losses on the Germans in the first few turns, but Aaron's 37L HTs were a killer -- tons of rate and effects. He also excelled in some key mid-game CCs in the village that took out the 25LL/gun crew and two full squads.
In the final German turn, the VC hex containing a 457 was sleeze frozen by a HT. As it turned out it came down to a 248 French (adjacent to the VC building) 2-0 FF shot against an adjacent CX stack containing 838, 468, 247, 8-0 (w/ FT) and a non-CX 247. LeBeau fires a 1,1 for 1MCs and a K/1 against the leader (rolled a 6 on WC). All but the CX 247 break. French retain in the "back building" VC hex in this scenario when the lone 247 enters CC with the HT and is killed in CC
Fabulous, highly recommended scenario. I stalled the Germans in the woods adequately enough, but after losing the village VC hex in large part to the killer HTs, the Germans were able to hook around to the back building. Had I held out one more half turn in the village, the Germans would have had a much tougher time getting to that back building. Great scenario; wonderful, skilled opponent.
