This first shot at a new book I got for Christmas, I had to find one of the shortest scenarios in the book. Interesting small action between SS and Soviet cavalry, the Germans are to control the area north of the east-west road and have less than 10 casualty steps, while the Russians need to have no Germans south of the east-west road and fewer than 6 casualty steps. This was a boxing match from about turn 4 after both sides maneuvered to contact, with 3 or 4 assaults going on at any turn between that and turn 18. Germans constantly took the worst of things but usually managed to recover while Soviets held their own in cavalry combat but lost all the leaders in charge of their base of fire, the two HMGs and the Mortars. Germans advanced into assaults with the Soviet HMGs, eliminated the Mortar and the LT there, but took casualties doing so. Soviets kept fleeing from actions north of the road, but usually bounced back, bringing back other units as they did, while SS started losing step after step and watched fleeing units run off the north end of the board. In the end, the Germans managed to hole the woods in the southeast corner but Soviets held an area in the large woods in the northwest and killed 12 steps of SS troops to a loss of 7. If the end of the game wasn't covered by German or Soviet conditions, it became a Soviet victory, so with Soviet troops north of the road and little the Germans could do about it, since most of their losses were their cavalry, it didn't matter that they had a foothold south of the road,it became a Soviet win. Excellent game.