Dr Messerschmidt

Don't waste artillery on the few troops in the hedgerows - you will need it for the final scenario after clearing the N 174. Split your forces into three teams: 1) Use the majority of your force (pretty much everything besides what's needed for 2+3) to occupy central farm complex and bind enemy fire - identify and suppress anti tank and sniper teams in hedgerows. Use that team to clean up the middle after 2+3 below. 2) Flank Left hedgerow with a squad on halftracks and occupy farm house and barn, open up on exposed enemy, then run them down with halftracks in open field. Simultaneously, move Panther and FO/HQ down dirt road and into position to left of fountain to face reinforcements that will enter on road from the right. You can call in a linear artillery strike along the road to take out some of the reinforcements. Use the halftrack to keep infantry off the Panther, and to pin down Ami halftracks. Smoke from burning vehicles will impede sightlines, so you will need secondary weapons for detail work (see 3). 3) Flank Right hedgerow with Panther after using it for supporting fire to bring other teams into position - make sure sniper team has been taken out before unbuttoning the hatches for visibility. There will be five Shermans trying to outflank the position in the field behind the hedgerow. Proceed slowly (hunt mode) and pick them off, then advance to attack flank of reinforcements entering battlefield from right...by that time, they should already have taken significant losses inflicted by your other Panther left of the fountain. When all armor has been knocked out (ca. 30 tanks and armored vehicles total) and you have decimated the enemy, this should lead to German Major Victory via US surrender and a 1000-0 score...this saves you from having to try to move all your vehicles through the bocage, and also saves your Panthers in case one of them gets immobilized by small caliber fire. You will need them and all the ammo you saved for the final scenario - Good Luck!