WW2 Campaign

Yesterday I played through another WW2 campaign game with Commonwealth forces making a limited attack on German positions. The arrival rate of reserves was problematic for both sides making for a tense game.

Opening moves of the game (the only picture I took)

It looked like the game was going with the Commonwealth forces until in the last few turns German reserves arrived to hold their advance. At game's end and after terrain points were counted, I found the points were equal. A draw! This presented a problem for my campaign as the zone could not be occupied by the winner. My choices (well the one's I thought of at the time) were:

1) A draw goes to the defender.
2) Overtime - carry on playing for a set number of turns then see if the points are still drawn.
3) Golden point - keep playing unit one side gains the next terrain feature (points).

I thought option 1 to be unsatisfactory. So the question was option 2 or 3? I went with option 3 (golden point) with the game being played using dusk and night rules.

With the new campaign rule, the game went for another three turns until Commonwealth infantry reserves finally moved up and were able to occupy the buildings. These buildings had been contested for most of the game.