It is not that every game involving this scenario is rated a 5, but this game was incredible! The Russians should have methodically perished due to the withering offboard artillery. But two rolls of 3 and 4 ending Austrian turns late in the scenario (this was the Austrian 45fh INF. Div.) hampered Austrian ammo use and eliminated two Austrian 81mm mortars when they ran out of shells. The Austrians had to go forward with assault tactics into the town. They couldn't sit back and pumml the Russians w/ two sections of 48 factors of offboard artillery. Those were halved to 24 apiece. Besides, considering what happened to the mortars, the same fate may have been in store for the oba.

But the Russians did not give the town over quickly even though they had only one officer left and the Austrians had superior officers.

The Russians paid dearly but I was not certain of the outcome until the bloody 25th turn. They had lost 26 steps up to thatpoint. On that fateful turn they lost six steps of armor in the town, and the Austrrans made inroads w/three captured hexese of of seven hexes In the town. It was obvious the game was over.

The Austrians started out w/ two officers rated 10-2-1 andd two rated 10-1-1 and the majority were rated 9 or above The Russians did get 7 of 10 T26s activated, but lost 3 to Austrian action. But they set up 6 out 10 tanks on board 6.This was a measure to guard against an Austrian flanking move. Since 4 of 6 tanks were successful in activation on that board, they caused temporary havoc to the Austrian column coming down the board 5-6 road. The tankers caught a valuable Engineer unit in the open and destroyed both steps. The Austrian flank manuveur was a ruse comprising about 1/3 of the force. It never property integrated into battle. As a side note, one tank unit could never mobilize on the 4th board through 25 turns!

There is vastly more to say about this battle as I wrote 3 pgs. If notes, but on to the the Barbarossa game! This was fun!