As the Soviet, I was supposed to put the heat on the Germans early on in this game. What was especially strange was the set up: opposing forces on a strangely shaped hill, basically facing each other across a road, a span of only 200 yards. As the Soviet, I was too concerned about getting my infantry slaughtered in frontal assaults on the German positions, so I tried to use my T34s for that purpose. However, one of my tank leaders was knocked out early on, and I never really managed to use the tanks effectively. I tried a few advances but was repulsed each time. The game was beginning to look like a German victory, with our positions effectively being the same as those we started with. So I moved up some tanks and infantry in a final desperate bid to make something happen, and they were all blown to hell.

The loss of hills as limiting terrain really changes the feel of this game. I'm not sure that I like it.