Summary:

Objectives:

13 VP’s with Temporary Majority Medal Objectives for whomever holds the majority of the 13 town hexes; plus Turn Start Temporary Uncontested Medal Objectives for the three key bridges.

Battlefield:

Countryside with many roads, towns, rivers, and forests

Troops:

Allies  – 20 Infantry, 8 Armor, 1 Artillery

Axis  – 17 Infanty, 7 Armor, 1 Artillery

🔥 Winning as Axis

1.  As Axis, because of the surprise nature of this attack, you only start with three Combat Cards vs. the Allies 13!.  But every time you take out an Allied unit, the Allied Commander loses a card (which you get to pull from his hand), and you are given a new card from the deck (not the one from his hand) and your total cards to use each turn increases.  So as the battle progresses the card ratio will begin to even out, until eventually the Axis will have more cards than the Allies.  Cards are attack-ability, so your attack-ability will increase, as the other’s declines.

2.  Your tanks, since you were not suspecting the airborne attack, are not in play at the start of the game. You will need to use some of your early turns to get them into attack positions.  And because the tanks can only move two hexes in this scenario (unless start and ending on a road, when they can move 4 hexes), it will take two to three turns to get them into place. So you need to start early.

3.  Control of the three bridge medals is based on being either on the bridge hex, or in the nearby vicinity of the six hexes surrounding it.  But note that if the enemy is able to get into the proximity of the bridge, you will lose that bridge medal until you clear them out. If the bridge is contested, then no one gets the medal. So keep the enemy forces well away from your bridges!