The T-34 really showed it's power here, as a large force hammered the Germans, completely destroying the PzIIIs and half of the PzIVs sent against them. The Germans vacated the map in Turn 7, having too few forces available to mount a serious defence of the town, especially as the KVs hadn't even been engaged at that point, and 4th Panzer could only provide 3 steps of PzIVs and two infantry platoons to counter a Soviet force that had only taken three step losses in the entire gsme.

I felt that the scenario was a bit unbalanced, but that may have been faulty tactics on my part. Certainly, if the Germans get into a straight-up shooting match (as mine did), it seems that the outcome can only got the way it did for me.

NOTE: It was only after reading everyone else's AARs that I realised I had played this through without the mud SSR. So there will be a replay, afer I have learned to read all of the SSrs before setting off :)