This small scenario has an Italian motorcycle company followed by motorized infantry with mortars and arty trying to get through to exit the east end of the board vs Russians in 2 groups, a company to the north of the road and one to the south, with OBA and mortars. The arty really put the writing on the wall in this one as the Italians made it just to the junction of boards 5 and 8 and got stopped dead in their tracks, and then the Russian troops advanced and assaulted the leading stacks of Italians. As the Italian Colonel lead a company around the flank of the assaults, he was killed by accurate OBA fire, which caused the whole Italian officer corps to stop everything for 2 turns before the Major took command, but he was immediately demoralized by more OBA. The Italian troops started fading away, walking towards the rear as one unit after another became demoralized and failed morale checks. In the end, casualties were light, with just 3 steps of Italians dead along with their Colonel, to 4 steps of Russians with 2 LTs gone. The mud just seemed to absorb any arty or mortar fire the Italians could throw, while the Russian arty and mortar fire seemed to always find the target, even if only rarely causing a step loss. Once the Italian commander died on turn 10, the front stagnated, and the stacks of good order Italians with good leaders found themselves bogged down in assault and unable to regain their initiative and mobility. As neither side really seemed to be winning, the slugging continued turn after turn, and I was glued to the game hoping for something of a more grand outcome, a great charge of the Italians trying for the east edge, with the Russians harrying every step along the way, so the tension was still there until it became impossible for the Italians to get anything off the board. In the end, with both sides now having their own share of individual units fleeing the fighting, and with 1 large assault action still going, the Russians never lost control of the whole length of road on the eastern board, so the Russians take the win on this one. Great game. And tougher than the small number of units would make me think in the beginning.