The Russian/German balance was a bit skewed from the start; and the German player made no bones about mentioning that several times. But the German defenders, who were dug in and mostly up-hill from the Soviets, were able to extract their fair share of payback from the Soviets. At the end of play, the Germans had inflicted more step losses on the Soviets than vice versa (25 or so Soviet to 21 German), but it was the Soviets who could afford to absorb the losses.

The real issue for this game was that the German AT guns were knocked out by artillery almost at the start, and the big 88mm flak gun was destroyed immediately after it was deployed. The STUGs got in some good shots but the Soviet infantry was already upon them and kept them busy with assaults. This really was just a game of who had more bodies running at the other guy- and the conclusion was an inevitable Soviet win by turn 8.