Kindly consider this. Here are the campaign messages leading into
Black Forest:
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Taking those into account, I did not want to repeat too much. Yet, there has to be some description in case this scenario is being played standalone. So, this is the scenario description:
Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 18 April 1945
France has territorial and geopolitical designs for Baden-Württemberg. At the very least, a foothold in this area would support a French zone of occupation in Germany, thus giving France the national prestige and power that it seeks in the post-war world. Perhaps even a French client state abutting Alsace is feasible.
While the British were confined to the North Sea coast, the Americans were to seize the Ruhr, then push towards the Elbe and the Danube in order to destroy the German army and finally make contact with the Soviets as near to Berlin, Prague and Vienna as possible. The French were to stand aside. General de Gaulle would not do so.
Having ordered General de Lattre to capture Stuttgart, de Gaulle now directs him to advance further east. But first, there is the need to complete the conquest of the Black Forest. De Lattre cannot afford to leave formidable forces behind him in the south.
Moreover, the Swiss, fearing desperate remnants of German forces penetrating their territory to seek passage or refuge, have urgently requested that French troops secure the Germany-Switzerland border along the Rhine from Basel to Lake Constance (Konstanz). Guerrilla operations in the mountains would prolong the war for months, maybe years.
To prevent this, the French must surround and destroy two entire enemy corps: the German LXIV Corps and XVIII SS Corps.
I believe that does the job?
Regarding the map, I have made the following changes:
• Shortened the name Freiburg im Breisgau to Freiburg.
• Split the town of Villingen-Schwenningen into Villingen and Schwenningen for legibility (which is accurate; it is one town but comprised of two villages).
• Created the town of Engen northwest of Singen.
• Created the towns of Eggingen, Stühlingen, and Bietingen, all on the Swiss border.
• Continued the road through Gailingen and across the Rhine.
• Made the following towns secondary VPs for the objective of "Seal the German-Swiss border":
- Weil am Rhein
- Bad Säckingen
- Waldshut-Tiengen
- Eggingen
- Jestetten
- Stühlingen
- Blumberg
- Bietingen
- Gailingen
- Konstanz
• Made the following towns primary VPs for the objective of "Capture 15 important towns":
- Offenburg
- Freiburg
- Freudenstadt
- Horb am Neckar
- Rottenburg
- Tübingen
- Oberndorf
- Schramberg
- Rottweil
- Balingen
- Sigmaringen
- Villingen
- Schwenningen
- Tuttlingen
- Singen
Here is a new copy of the map:
The primary objectives are:
Destroy both German corps
The German LXIV Corps and XVIII SS Corps must be surrounded and utterly destroyed.
Capture 15 important towns
At a minimum, these 15 towns must be taken in order to secure the region.
Seal the German-Swiss border
All 10 border crossing points must be in French hands to prevent remnants of German forces from crossing into Switzerland.
I think those suffice as primary objectives, unless you can think of something else. For a secondary objective, we have the Pétain/Sigmaringen gambit — exactly what that is remains to be seen. Anything else come to mind for secondary objectives?
By the way, I thought of putting some sort of timer on the border sealing objective. Such as, after a certain amount of turns, German units will start disappearing south. I rejected this for two reasons: 1) It's complicated getting the timing down pat for exiting units, and 2) Every German unit that exits makes the destroy the two corps objective easier. What we could do is to stipulate that the player seal the border by Turn X which would replicate the urgency of surrounding the enemy and cutting him off.
As far as unit placement, the French will own Strasbourg and everything west of the Rhine, of course. Also Kehl on the east bank. I am thinking of starting the French divisions in this box:
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I have already allotted 60 turns because the French are beginning the scenario on a small portion of a large map. Now, as I usually do, there will be garrisons in all 25 VPs; these are in addition to the six German divisions in the two corps (see below — the two brigades are the equivalent of one division, I suppose). Where to place these German divisions? I assume one or two or three will be in the Black Forest itself?
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We could concentrate the XVIII SS Corps in the Black Forest and deploy the LXIV Corps in the fields to the east, as this map suggests:
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Also, as to the German units, weaken them like we did in
Battle of Authion? 8 strength to start?
the initial attack along three axes, one of the main goals being to cut the German forces in two. 
there may be a mechanism with troops arriving as reinforcements FROM inside this pocket (survivors of other units regrouping and forming new battle units as best they can) - this is historical... so, once the pocket is closed, roughly speaking, it's in your interest to take it without too much delay, otherwise reinforcements keep coming out of these woods, again and again. 
including motorized and armored (especially in the western part, with SS), I think, if I remember correctly.
could definitely be very useful to maneuver in these mountains, but let's leave that. 
What could be helpful, rather than actually just directly weakening the defenders, would be 
