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Originally Posted by clueless_newbie
Now, obviously, these guys did it in real life, so I'm missing something. How did it really happen? What stopped the German armor from just rolling through the positions? 
And thanks for the kind responses.
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The Panzer battalions spent much of the time stopping themselves- the Germans were critically low on fuel and the major spearheads resorted to feeding off captured US supplies. Considerably more German tanks were abandoned in the Ardennes than actually put out of action.
Secondly, the terrain did not allow for massed armor like in the Eastern Front. Tank units were often practically funneled through close quarters (a narrow road in the forest or town streets) where they were vulnerable to US troops armed with Bazookas and 57mm Anti-tank guns.
Finally, the US army units, being the most heavily equipped formations of the war, were not without Armor. There were tank and tank destroyer battalions in the Bulge battle, not to mention entire US armored divisions.