The Soviets had set up to cover the probable avenues of approach with AT crossfire and mutually supporting positions across maps 22/23. At the last minute the Germans decided to attack the northeast end of the Soviet line. The GD performed very well, chewing up the Soviet Guards on the hill and in the town. When the Germans entered on the south edge, the Soviets in the had to withdraw to the west. The Soviets were caught in a fire sac and decimated. Even with reinforcements later, they were unable to put a real hurt on the Germans. The German SS reinforcements cemented a lopsided german victory. Great scenario.

What a wild scenario this is. Soviet forces deploy over three maps, with towns on all three to defend. The Soviet commander decided to leave the large town to the west (Board 11) largely undefended and have a SMG company mounted on trucks as a reserve. The initial German units come on from the north and attempted to take the first town on the "bounce", this attack was repulsed with heavy losses but has sucked in the Soviet reserves. The next wave of German reinforcements come from the south and caused the Soviet defenders in the east to retreat from their town without a fight. This was an error as German artillery hit them hard causing units to get disrupted and left as easy meat for the advancing panzers. The German commander also sent a battle group to disrupt the on board Russian morters,this worked well enough and the morters left to seek sanctury in the western town. By now the Soviet forces had been sucked into a large battle around the middle town, this battle they were winning but the Soviet's were hoping that the rumours of a SS division to the south were untrue. Alas these hopes were dashed and the Nazi horde swept up the road brushing aside the few units who had dug in before the town. This was a turning point on the western side, although Soviet troops hung on to the outskirts of the town more than 80% of the town would end in German hands. A tank battle had erupted on the eastern flank, this resulted in 10 PzIVH's destroyed but at the cost of 8 JSII's the elite of the Red Army's armour was now nothing but a twisted smoking wreck. The battle now settled down into one of attrition. The turns were flying by (4 quick turns due to FOW), this in fact helped the German as the late Soviet reinforcements did very little except dig in around the last town in Russian hands. as the game ended the German's were slowly chewing up the Soviet defenders and gaining VPs every turn. This exciting scenario ended in a major German victory but it really could have gone both ways. This was a solo game but I can see this being an even better FtF game. Play this one if you can