Hurtgen Forest

[Arthur 'Bomber' Harris]

Does anyone have some advice for this particular objective in the scenario? It's doing my head in, the Germans are entrenched, elite, and behind rivers and its essentially impossible to take, especially since air power is nullified by bad weather and terrain, as well as the Devs only giving you one engineer. One German unit in the forest can take limitless attacks in a turn with no losses or suppression which is kind of insane, but not surprising because the terrain is OP in their favour. Any advice for this scenario? Also they cheekily added an objective to lose less than 15 steps lmao, very funny considering how high the cards are stacked against you.

[shde2e]

I suppose they gave it a fitting name.
No advice though, only commiseration.

[Arthur 'Bomber' Harris]

Still stuck on it after 3 hours lmfao

[Arthur 'Bomber' Harris]

6th Attempt lmao I think I've lost around 1000 points off my campaign score so far...

[ventura2022]

The forest is bad. Cut the Nazi supply from the North and South. 1st Army pushes south down Rail line to cut off supply and 9th Army crosses North of the Forest to cut off rail near the Rhine. I played it successfully on Normal and it took me a few times. Dont replicate the historical gift the Allies gave the Germans.

[Arthur 'Bomber' Harris]

Finally did it lmao, never want to play that scenario again. That made me have Italy flashbacks...

[shepherd352]

I realized I couldn't win on my first attempt and restarted. 2nd time, I pushed through North of the forest. I cut supply to the German units North of my breakthrough then pushed South (both sides of the river). I cut supply to the main German forces in the Hurtgen Forrest and secured the Rhur dams. Clearing out the forest is easy when the Germans have no supply!

[Kiane]

Pushed all my armor but one or two strong ones south and slipped around the whole german line from behind, cutting off the German supply, where they promptly starved. Getting through forest is actually not bad if you have an elite infantry, as having a star over the enemy means set piece attacks will inflict massive suppression. My tanks didn't have the MP by 1 to take the bonus objective at the last turn though, which was frustrating.

[Robert_nuta]

You need to use engineers, they ignore the enemy entrenchement defensive bonus

[doose]

so i managed to remove the unit covering the forest and had the other town under my control with 3 unmoved infantry around the forest. there is no move available to enter the forest , none of my units can move into the forest tiles????? there are moves around and away from but none to enter the objective , final move so no options?? ideas?

[doose]

just an update , defeated it without crossing the river. just used engineers and arty and pounded the forest only , took both but not the extra by turn 6 .messed up my try at the extra but hey , i finally beat it after 7 tries!

[Arthur 'Bomber' Harris]

very epic

[danielprates]

I finally beat it, after much grind.

Indeed the best way, it seems, is to leave your infantry to merely guard the outskirts of the forest. I sent 3 armoured north and the rest south (I think it was some 5 divisions). It takes a turn to get all of them there, because of all the position switching. Breaking through the german line right away on the first turn is doable on both fronts, even if you have to spend right away that saturation bombing. Then it comes to a slow advance. The germans will throw all their armour at you but with air attacks, and carefully choosing which target kills more steps at a time, it is relativelly easy to destroy all the german armour. By half the scenario, I already had cut the southern supply line, and a few turns later, the northern, so starving the troops in the forest was complete with a few turns to go.

It is a bit of a challenge to surround the entire forest, since if you throw all your armor to the east of it, you are forced to leave a few gaps here and there to enclose it totally, specially on the other side of the forest. You have to really think which hexes can be left unguarded, because, damn this game has good AI, it exploited some of my gaps and made me sweat here and there. I left in total some 5 gaps, thinking they were hexes the enemy wouldn't judge worthwhile to take, but in a couple of places they went for it and almost ruined my day.

You can set up two supply hubs, one in the north with 1 or 2 trucks tops, since it is near yor units, and another one as far as you can in the south, which with 3 or 4 trucks can reach everybody. So supply wasn't really an issue.

I will say though, it is a slow process. I only got it in the last turn, and there were some german troops left.