Fun little scenario! As the Soviets i put a small OP w/ a couple infantry and a HMG / leader on the forward hill, and concentrated my defense around the town. The Italians then ran around my right flank, forcing me to pull my OP bvack to town -- and just in time. The Italian reinforcments arrived, and he placed his arty units on the backside of the hill for fear of my mortars. Lack of transport made the Italian advance very slow and they were forced to use arty for smoke to cover their advance, as a result they started bombarding the town too late -- in addition the Italians tried an ill=advised assault on the town before all available forces were up. This caused considerable casualties to the Italians, who finally managed to get the reinforcements into the fight too little too late -- at game's end the Soviets still held the north and northeast sides of town.