and sometimes luck is all you need! The Germans have a tough river crossing, made worse by the fact that I had set up 'hedgehog' defenses in both the woods and town near the river, including leaders which kept his crossing sites under constant artillery attack from on and off board fire. The Germans were forced to send their infantry across without armor to try and clear the oppossite bank, and to use his OBA to lay smoke to cover the crossing sites. German assaults in the town and woods were repulsed twice before they were both taken at considerable cost. Eventually the Germans got the bulk of their armor across, he switched from laying smoke to laying bombardments... which gave one of my leaders a perfect view of one of his crossing points, still choked with troops. I hit him with all my OBA (55 column after modifiers), rolled snake-eyes, and his losses put him over maximum -- Soviets win!