After having recovered from a bullet wound in the leg, the young Lieutenant Erwin Rommel is sent back on the front lines in the Argonne at the beginning of the year 1915. On the 29th of January, Rommel at the head of an infantry company will use all his cunning and mastery during an assault on the French trenches known as Labordaire and Centrale. Refusing a classical straightforward and deadly assault, he uses cover and his men sneak out of their trench by crawling and fall on the French first lines which are taken completely by surprise.
Attacker: German (9th Company, 124th Infantry Regiment (Würtemberg))
The more complicated of the two scenarios available for "The Great War" module is definitely a harsh pill to swallow. There's very little that makes this scenario interesting, with the Germans facing dozens of Wire and Trench counters/hexes and an unclear objective that requires the Germans to capture 32 hexes in 6 turns, or 21 hexes, depending on your interpretation. The French are hampered by a poor reinforcement location as well.
By the last German turn, things had gotten close for either side, but the poor ruleset was the true victor, and we called it a draw to avoid having to spend an extra hour or two going through all the trenches and the sorting that ensues.
