Kinda new something was up when I only drew the best leaders for the Finns, while the Russians had the flip side. Seems like this kind of luck lasted throughout the whole scenario.

I took what I expected to be the normal setup for the Finns - holding the town only with a reserve of about 1/3 to allow for an active reserve. I also knew that the Germans probably couldn't get any reductions due to morale because of the excellent leadership and high morale, so assault would be the attack du jour.

16:00 hour: I did the typical of any Russian attack - get close (the nearby city), then do a "Wave" attack along the whole front. Unfortunately, the Finns had other ideas. The whole northern flank of the attack was left withering in fear or totally disarrayed. The armor support and about 1/2 of the attack made it in the south. Bombardment proved totally ineffective. No Finnish casualties.

17:00 hour: Attack! I managed to get two smaller stacks into close combat on turn 4. I had everything in the hex for the Germans, but the rolls kept coming up roses for the Finns. During the next hour of assault, the Russians had lost about 8 INF steps, 2 leaders, and 2 steps of armor, The Finns lost only 1 step of Cav. The northern flank continued to be a mess while the recovered Russians moving toward the front had to fight the tide of Russians fleeing the front.

18:00 hour: Things were looking grim for the Russians, losing another 3 steps of INF (even to direct fire) and another leader at the top of the hour. Seems like there was no end to 6's for the Finns when assaulting, while Russians seemed to perennially come up 1 shy of a M. By 16:30, the Russian's commander finally called it quits with 8.5 INF and 2 leaders in the grave bucket, and over half of their force under the cover of a disrupted / demoralized counter. The Finnish death toll ended up with 1 full CAV counter.

End Result: Decisive Finnish victory, with morale of the Finnish Army now set to 10 for all regulars. Mannerheim, who originally thought that a fighting withdrawal was bad, bestowed the order of the Lion of Finland to the cavalry commander.

Overall, I believe this would have been a more exciting game if the dice weren't so skewed for the Finnish troops. But just by going on the 1 playing I had, I would call this one mediocre.