I got a rare chance to play PG face-to-face in November, and we tried MOL #4, Sol'tsy: Problems at Maloye Utorgosh. Two maps, 18 turns, and designed by PG scenario artisan Mike Perryman.

I see Vince Hughes played this one back a while ago, and had a German win. This time, the Soviets won as the German conceded early. I was the Soviets, and was helped by some atrocious rolls by my opponent (several 12s on morale checks in the first turn!, and repeated 7s when checking for his own fire). I was able to get some of his tanks in a crossfire between my T-28s and 45mm AT guns, eventually killing three steps. But the big break came when my force advancing down the western side got the jump on his troops in the wheat field due to an early fog-of-war turn end. When his troops tried to pull back, they were hammered by my OBA. I had three powerful groups closing in on the town from different directions, and we called it quits.

I thought the scenario was interesting, a classic PG assault situation. With some different rolls it could have turned out very differently.