I hadn't had a game of Memoir'44 for ages so I tried a scenario I'd never played from the base game, the Battle of Arracourt. This was a major armoured confrontation with plenty of artillery thrown in on the Allied side.
The game started well for the Germans who immediatly launched an armoured assault on their right flank knocking the US tanks back to the next hill line. This was followed up by a hand of good cards for the Americans who initially countered the German advance but over time their options narrowed so that they ran out of anything in the centre and couldn't activate their artillery to good effect.
The situation became dire as the German tanks pressed on to the US baseline and the game ended quite abruptly with a 6-2 victory. Looking back I would have played the Americans much more cautiously and waited for the Germans to move towards me but the game did give the feeling of a force put into panic by some aggressive tactics that completely unbalanced them so from that perspective was quite a sobering gaming experience.
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