The name of this scenario has an echo in the WW I tactical series by Avalanche for a reason. The Soviets have a reinforced battalion attacking two companies of infantry and a company of tanks supported by a huge amount of artillery which hold a town. The Germans will be reinforced during the Soviet attack. Inexplicably the Soviet command thinks that it is possible for their troops to either take the entire town, or destroy the German tanks.

The Soviets really have no chance to get into the town and the German artillery makes it very tough to get their strong AT guns into play against the German armor. But they pays us to play these things, not assume that they can't be played.

My Soviets were aggressive, they were able to wipe out a platoon that had set up in the hills to spot for the artillery, I was able to get two AT guns into position on the right flank, heck I was even able to get a flank column into the town on the east side but when it was over the southern edge of town was carpeted in Soviet bodies and by turn 12 there wasn't a single step of Soviet troops in the town and most of the Soviet guns had been silenced.

Despite the fact that the action happened in 1942, it felt like 1917. The Soviets had to advance across a relatively featureless front against strong machine gun fire (one HMG and the two tanks). The lack of OBA for the Soviets means that they have to arrange their own artillery fire and it was subject to being hammered by the German OBA and on board artillery hidden deep in the town.

It was surprising that even this late in the war the Soviets were incapable of consistently having a clue as to how to attack. While this was more of a spoiling attack it is hard to see what they accomplished other than causing 50 casualties and making the Germans shoot off a lot of ammunition.

This one was a bit too much of a foregone conclusion. I give it a "2".