ScubaSeth and I played this four times nearly a year ago (April 2025) and overall had a great time but noticed an oversight in the design that makes the scenario unpleasantly imbalanced. We each played both factions twice, and found an easily-corrected design oversight that heavily favors the Germans. Life kept me from sharing our takeaways on this forum for many months, but today I finally have time.
** The Positives **
The dynamism and contingent victory conditions make this scenario fun. The German play first needs to link-up at least one Opel Blitz truck with one Panzer IV tank before moving on to the Victory Objective Marker behind British lines. Doing this requires German units traverse across mostly-open ground, while British units can be more defensive and leverage interlocking lines of fire from cover.
** What Needs to Change **
This scenario is set in June 1942. Because of this, the German Panzer IV tanks can only be early-war variants with the lower-velocity and shorter-barreled 75mm guns, not later-war variants with higher-velocity long-barreled 75mm guns. Therefore, the German player must use Operations Card 019, "Panzer IV Ausf. E," but the scenario designers did not specify this.
Making this change significantly alters balance. Rather than the German player being able either to make Concentrated Fire actions at farther range and significantly higher firepower than any British unit on the field OR make Fire-and-Movement actions with on-par firepower against vehicles, they will have only slightly better firepower against vehicles. This game-mechanical balancing reflects real-world circumstances which the Days of the Fox expansion designers accounted for in creation of Op Card 019, so I'm confused as to why the scenario designers did not specify its use.
