Very interesting scenario. The victory conditions create a kind a seesaw movement which is really challenging. Basically the German player (me !) has to reach 3 objectives to win (controlling town hexes on both maps, preventing too many losses and inflicting more) while the Russian only has two to accomplish (the same). My set up was quite an agressive one, well forward with AT guns on hilltops to shoot T34s. And I did succeed : two steps of T34s destroyed on first turn and more demoralized. However the Russian artillery instantly killed the AT guns and German engineers assaulting the demoralized T34s went nowhere and got KIA also. To prevent more losses, German withdrew waiting for the Tigers to enter. The Russians advanced carefully and got trapped. The very slow moving Tigers entered the battlefield on turn 6 (first possibility on turn 5). Fun : a group of German HMGs forced one entire company of T34s to retreat by fear of being forced to devastating morale checks (when the MGs obtain a X1 on the combat table...). Now Russians got back on defensive positions. Germans advanced again to get casualty points from dead Russians : a slow process. Eventually, the Germans got the casualty points they needed while the Russian obtained the same result ! The only way for the Germans to win the scenario was to expel the Russians from the other village on the eastern map. SS were then sent through the plains to assault the village while Tigers destroyed every AFV in sight. The infantry eventually reached the village inlicting horrendous losses on the Russians but it failed to secure all the village hexes on the very last turn of the game. A very good scenario.

Historically, it seems the terrain along the Psel river was an area built by many more rowhouses than shown on the maps. The slopes going down from southeastern heights towards the Psel river also offered quite a different terrain to fight on than the KKursk south flank maps.