The first thing you have to do on the Germans side is to pick which North to South road you want to clear & defend. One has towns you will have to clear and one has higher-three level elevation terrain. Both seem difficult and with the moving special rule for this scenario down to a crawl because of mud, the situation becomes dicey. I choose the higher elevation route. Both sides get to start a few infantry units on their side of the board and the rest come on as a race to initiate. As the Russians, you need to kill tanks without losing too many and they have the bigger force.

Basically the Russians won the first activation and I got my smaller German armor too far ahead of my Infantry and they got smashed. Yes they did take some T-34’s with them but the Panthers definitely have to be more careful of the newer T-34C & T-34/85’s. I through in the towel about half way through this game, as the Soviet clearly had this one won, and it may be just because they rolled better activations on the first three turns. The biggest mistake was blowing my panzer too early.

Hex 0710 is a good fishing hole!