The dice were not favorable to the Germans in this one....

The Russians deployed mostly in the town, which they are tasked with defending. The HMG sets up to protect the approach via road, the 76s aimed out towards the open fields denying the German StuGs a direct approach. The 37s set up in the woods with some infantry support to oppose a flanking attack into the woods, and the 45s set up as a last ditch defense on the bridge hex. Pretty standard defensive set up with nothing too exciting going on.

The Germans advanced through the town in their trucks and disembarked in order to advance on the town. The mortars and 37s held back. The StuGs took a northerly route, staying out of range of the 76s, with the infantry following the path. The Germans had a rough time setting up to assault the woods and ultimately flank the town from cover due to some unfortunate die rolls, but by turn 6 they were ready to attack. The bad die rolls continued, with the Russians winning 2x initative fro Turn 7, and by pure luck demoralizing 4 german infantry units and 2 leaders in position to begin the assault. The Germans all failed to rally, and the Russian airstrikes and artillery tore them up. By turn 10 they had regrouped and were ready to try to make an assault again (knowing the time limit had already put victory out of reach). These assaults went even worse, as the Russians again were rolling fire and destroyed a step of German Stugs (x2 for ini and vc) triggering a Russian win.

This scenario ultimately fell to the hot dice, but the combined arms attack of the Germans into decent moral Russians with heavy air support made for a very interesting scenario.