The Russians learned a painful and important lesson: their forces are too brittle to be divided. The original plan was to grind up the east side of the board using the woods to concentrate my forces. However, I foolishly left only a few infantry and the AT gun to cover the southern road. Then, when i thought I had spotted what I presumed to be the German's "scout" tank, I made the mistake of pursuing this tank into an ambush (accomplished through dextrous manipulation of the rules for double-blind play with observation posts). The Germans closed in on the divided Russians... you can guess the rest.

I would suggest that when you get a tank like the KV2, you make sure that it is FIRING on something every turn, not wasting its time moving only two hexes every turn. The use of such a tank is not about finesse...