I reluctantly cede the coffee.
A few battles later...
Kicker here is making those crossroads largely impassable. I did that in the meeting engagements so by the time Panthers started arriving I had much better firing lanes to channel them into. A most prodigious Spitfire destroyed two Panthers in one pass on the NW side of the crossroads. Saved my ass. Biggest linchpin is the eastern wing of the building where the flame is shooting over. I've maintained control of that over a series of battles, ensuring the fights get tangled up in close quarters instead of fanning out into wider, long-range engagements I could never win.
Two companies have held the line here. I intended to bring in a bigger brigade for reinforcements, but the Germans beat me to the punch and attacked them first. Luckily that engagement looked like this:
Germans started in the bottom left corner of the map. Pretty much penned them in with fortified AT guns and fortified infantry squads. This battle actually ended in less than the 20seconds; you can see my mortars still 'aiming'. They never actually got a shot off. German tanks exploded instantly, they called for a truce, then a few seconds later they abandoned the field.