Today was a good day - I both introduced Ted to PG, and we had a grand time playing a nail-biter. It was the most entertaining PG scenario I've played in my short career.

I should perhaps first qualify this AAR. I do not own Burning Tigers. I downloaded and printed the map and scenario sheet from the APL website. I did not, however, download and print the counters. Instead I substituted counters from Kursk South Front, which I do own - SS for German Wehrmacht, and Guards for RKKA. Although the SS and Guards are stronger than the units on the scenario sheet I don't think the substitutions unduly disrupt the scenario design, but it's only fair to bring it to your attention.

My Germans advanced carefully on the farm. Artillery and mortars of both sides were trading shots as the German infantry closed on forward-deployed Soviet infantry and HMG. It seemed to be going too slowly though so I aggressively advanced as soon as I disrupted the HMG. The StuG dodged crossfire shots from the Soviet ATR and artillery gaining the Germans an upper hand in an assault hex in the field just north of the farm.

Unfortunately, what I thought was going to be a quick assault bogged down. In spite of superior firepower and numbers the Soviets got lucky and disrupted all the assaulting Germans. Soon there wasn't enough time to recover these units, complete the assault, advance on the farm, and initiate another assault. I had no choice but to advance on the farm with the only other good-order platoon and leader who could get there just in time on turn 10.

Softening up the farm one last time I finally got lucky and both took out the Soviet on-board arty and demoralized the other remaining farm defenders. SS leader and infantry advanced but were disrupted in the first fire in spite of the defender's limited firepower. It came down to the recovery roll on turn 10 for the demoralized defenders. Both failed and the Soviets lost control of the farm to the disrupted SS Schutzen infantry.