This was a horrible scenario as I played it. The Russians had sealed off the edges of the board with minefields, and the fields around the road bristled with AT guns. Thus I was forced to go through the fields and clear them out as best I could. But the Russians held on in certain pockets and although the rain hadn't even started by turn 16, I was never going to clear out the town, the big hill and then the NEXT BOARD!

I made some bad choices in my initial set up- I had only lighter tanks (armor:4) on my right flank, my Tigers in the middle (to use the road), and then the heavier tanks (armor:5) on the left flank. The right flank was chewed up by his forward-positioned T-34s and by a horrible assault roll that cost me six steps at once. I was harassed and blown to pieces by all that soviet artillery long before I even started clearing out Russian front line positions. I think I was too conservative with the Tigers; but I've seen them get caught in crossfires before…

The latest devious trick I learned from the Russians was using his infantry to drag an entire line of AT guns back out of sight. I'd get positioned to deal with them, and whoosh! they'd disappear.