Bolt Action: Tank War

Mike with 2,500 pts of very late war US armour v. Jim & Chris with 2,500 pts of Panzers.
10'x6' table Tank Wars scenario with 6 objectives - the bridge, the village & the near ends of the 4 wooded hills at the far end of the table.

The Germans are on the near side with 3 Mk IVs & 2 infantry squads in the woods on their left, 2 Panthers on the wooded hill right of centre & 3 Hetzers beind the hill on their right.  The US have an infantry squad, a bazooka squad & 2 tank destroyers on each flank & a bunch of tanks or TD's on the centre hill.

The battle started badly for the Germans with a Panther destroyed & the other badly pinned by long shots on turn 1.  On the near flank infantry advanced on each other with tank support.  Tanks sniped at each other from cover across the central plain & the far valley.

With the big pussies out of action, the Mk IV's & Hetzers were systematically picked off.  But the German infantry took both objectives on the left & fell back behind the ridges still in posession of 2 ridge top objectives. 

At the end of turn 7 the Germans had been decimated but still held 4 of the 6 objectives, but the dice decreed an 8th turn.  The US armour surged forward & took out the Panther holding the central objective, but the grenadiers held their ground in the village & the sole remaining Hetzer clung to another objective.  So though reduced to just one Hetzer & 2 infantry squads the Germans held on for a draw.