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[Plain Ian]

Well, by the looks of your numerous armour units, you have far more units capable of decent soft attacks than he has. The Mixed M4 units have an SA of 19, over twice as much as your infantry. They're not too numerous either, but they're there.

I'd say your main challenge now is to switch from a defensive setup to an offensive one, preferably in an area with plenty of clear terrain. The habit of maintaining a line is good, but there comes a point where it might not be needed. If he wants to advance 10 hexes into some woods in the middle of nowhere after you pull back some units to concentrate them elsewhere, it might be unclear how that would endanger your position.

It seems doubtful that he can stop a strong concentrated attack in the far south, for example.

Near Bastogne, he might stop you for the moment, that is where many of his quality units are, but the south seems more vulnerable. He has a mixture of good and mediocre to poor units in each area, a good strategy by itself, but the Germans are always vulnerable to being hit hard in a single sector due to not having numerous divisions.

Yes you are right in that I am 'tank rich'. The word I use a lot is 'embarrassingly' rich. Hoever apart from 4th Armoured's 3 tank units the morale of most tank units is C/D. Even a lowly VGD can take out an M4 and possibly disrupt the unit. Then there is Panzer Lehr still lurking there. 

But yes I take your point that Clear terrain and lots of tanks is the best option. Michael probably had this in mind when we saw Pz Lehr advancing between Pratz and Boevange a few turns ago.

Indragnir has probably other ideas about what to do with Pz Lehr. He is not a fan of it being used in the south with 7th Army. I thought it was a good one.