My first solo game for a while and my first from Burning Tigers. This scenario is quite curious as although this is Kursk and the German's are on the attack its the Soviets who will need to attack before the German armour reinforcements arrive. However the German commander in my game launched an attack on the small 40m ridge in the middle of board 41.With accurate artillery and machine gun fire the ridge was cleared with heavy Soviet losses. This led to an Guards counter attack on the ridge which was beaten off again with high Russian losses. The soviet commander then threw his T34's into the fray, alone and unsupported, they failed to make much headway at first but when recovering Guards INF and HMG units rejoined the battle the central ridge was once again in Russian hands although the German units had withdrawn with only light casualties. The Soviets and attacked both the German flanks bit finally the German AFV's arrived on the scene in the ensuing Tank contest losses were fairly even but coupled to the Russian losses earlier in the battle the Germans were always on top in VP's. The Luftwaffe then joined in, and finding a company of demoralized Soviet Guards sheltering behind the Russian lines, had great success with their Stukas. The game ended with the combatants back in their original positions, but with the Russian almost halved in numbers they would be unable to mount any effective defense should the German's mount further attacks. Not a bad scenario, if my game was any guide then it will be a very cluttered board around that central ridge, not sure if it is as unbalanced as my game panned out with the Germans having 20 more VP's than the Soviets. Still a bit of a slugfest IMHO.