Yup. I tried this as the Italians versus a friend. It took me 12 turns to gather every soldier, the tanks, and many reinforcements in a position that completely surrounds the French fort. Soldiers hid behind reverse slopes and assumed positions in the hills for suppressing fire as 2 seperate artillery observers pound the hell out of the legion. My 75 used the camoflouge of the bombardment to open up and destroy the small building.
Then I sent every soldier I had forward at once. THE ITALIANS ARE TERRIBLE! They seemed to say "No one told us there'd be guns involved!" Instead of pouring unimaginable amounts of suppressing fire onto the single company of French most of my force decided to sneak into underbrush. Also the legion targeted my platoon and company HQ's, which idiotically consist of only two men and are very easy to kill. The Italians abandoned my painstaking set up of good positions with plenty of support from other platoons, mortars and MG's to sneak uselessly around. If I had had half as many good German troops I am sure that my set up of suppressing fire in the hills and tactic of surrounding and bombardment would have worked. Still though, I am not really bitter about losing. It was perhaps the most intense fire-fight I have seen in ANY CM game.