GIA TAHGC 301"The Clearing"

Updated 040830; rev 1.0

HUERTGEN FOREST, OCTOBER 10, 1944: Day after day of seemingly endless forest. Constant shelling has turned most of the trees to shattered hulks. Advances are truly measured in yards as each step forest increased the threat of yet another sniper or hidden Spandau. Then near the road from Richelskaul to Rafflelsbrand, the GIs saw treeless sky. Without any command given, the GIs surged forward to take the high ground.

VICTORY CONDITIONS: To win, the US player must have an unbroken squad and leader together on any one of the hexes M5, N5, O5, or P5 at the end of the game's end. They may not be locked in melee. The German player wins by avoiding US victory conditions.

BOARD LAYOUT:

NORTH

Only rows A-P are playable

SCENARIO SEQUENCE:

Setup Simultaneously	1	2	3	4	5	6	END
US player moves first

GERMAN FORCES:

AT START: Elements of 983rd Infantry Regiment; setup on any first level or higher hex of hill 621. No mines or wire are allowed on level three hexes.
1x9-1; 1x8-1; 1x8-0; 1x838; 1x467; 1x447; 2x237, 1xMMG; 2xLMG; 6xMines; 1x 50L ATG; 4xWire; 2xEntrechments; 1x1-3-5 Bunker

AMERICAN FORCES:

AT START: Elements of the 60th Infantry Regiment [ELR: 3], set up in any whole hex of row B.
1x9-2; 1x8-1; 1x7-0; 1x747; 4x666; 2xMMG; 2xDC; 2xBAZ44a

SPECIAL SCENARIO RULES:

301.1: The German may boresight his ATG and MMG.
301.2: The 747 and 838 are engineers but lack any special smoke-making capability
301.3: OPTIONAL TOURNAMENT SIDE SELECTION PROCEDURE: Each player takes one marker of each nationality and simultaneously reveals their choice of side. If opposing sides are selected, those sides are assigned. If the same side is chosen, the players bid for side with the lower rated (seed) player bidding first. Bids may start at '0' and progress in whole numbers only. The bid is the number of dominate AT START squads to be added to the opposing side. The bid continues until one player accepts the opposing side whose force is augmented with that bid.

AFTERMATH:

The drive up the lightly wooded hill gathered some spontaneous momentum. The Germans fought bravely until they could see the Americans ensconced on the heights. Then with the GIs looking down on them, the Wehrmacht conscripts surrendered en masse. Although the forest lay as a great green-gray all around them, the US troops were able to pause and regroup in this small clearing.