I played this one solo setting up the Romanians in three clusters, each of which was placed midway between boards 8 and 5. I planned for an attack straight up the middle along the road. It took the Soviets about an hour and a half to move into position. During that time the Romanians managed to kill a couple of tank steps using those much maligned 47's. Of course, crappy BT-7's don't take a whole lot of abuse to begin with. Killing a couple of half platoons wasn't a big deal.

The Soviets used their artillery to "soften up" the line but without any notable success. The PBI managed to fight their way into and through the (strongest) middle position. The cost, while not exceptional, was enough to throw the whole assault into disarray. Meanwhile, the flanking Romanian companies fell back to the western side of board 8. The northern company got chewed up but the southern company remained relatively intact.

At this point, about halfway through the scenario, I realized that both sides were nearing physical exhaustion. I was also getting a bit tired of this one as well. Consequently, I decided that while both sides had inflicted moderate casualties, I would award the win to the Romanians. They had enough men left to put up a stiff fight, at least for a couple of turns. The Soviets were becoming more disorganized as casualties took their toll on the advance. I figured that the Soviets had indeed pushed back the Romanians, but not by a whole lot. That matched the after action report in the scenario book.

All in all, it was just another day at the front for both sides.