Ok. I get your point about why the Waffen SS try so hard to capture the crossroads, but why don't they just flank the Sherman and kill it with one of the literally dozens of Panzerfausts they've got with them? Why not just use the hedge/ditch to sneak in close and zap it with an AT rocket? Or loop around the big burning farm house? Or both? Why launch a dozen frontal human wave attacks?
If the movie was set on Saipan or Okinawa, where last-ditch Banzai charges were de rigueur, the enemy tactics would have made more sense. If the director had made the enemy Volkssturm, OK. But against what looked like battle-hardened Waffen SS panzergrenadiers? No.
I'll suspend my disbelief if a writer/director doesn't blatantly insult my intelligence. That battle scene was a nasty yo' momma snap spat right in my face.
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