[MarkSheppard]

Patton would cashier an officer who did so when he demanded speed and aggressiveness. If he wanted Montgomery to plan this attack he would have asked him .

He's asking you to go in fast and hard and kick *** and take names and not worry about "casualties"

Well, this village is insanely hard to take without absurd casualty rates in the time frame given.

I suffered close to 30% casualties in my tank arm (out of 10 tanks, 3 were knocked out); average casualties in my infantry squads were 20% (from 12 men to about 10 men). One squad was down to about 6 men (50% casualties).

All of these casualties were suffered because the Germans had an insanely excellent setup; with their 50mm PaK 38s hiding in the trees, guarded by a MG-42 and Infantry squads in buildings. If you sent your infantry ahead to clear the Pak 38s out, they'd get munched by the infantry and MG-42, while if you sent the tanks in to kill the infantry and MG-42, the PaKs would get 'em.

Anyway, I had completely routed the enemy by turn 10; broken all of his important units, destroyed the MG nest, blown up the PaKs, etc.

There was nothing really dangerous standing between me and the final six victory locations still held by the Germans; except the clock. Extending it by a few turns would improve the scenario a lot IMHO.