This was probably the least balanced scenario I've ever tried to play. Well, let me rephrase that. This scenario will not be balanced if played by people who know what they are doing and what the individual units are capable of. Two green players might enjoy this scenario; but two experienced players definitely did not.

I lost as the Soviet, just as the scenario description said that I would. I suppose that I could have sat tight for 15 turns and hoped that my artillery would do enough damage to the Germans in one sector of their defenses to allow me to grab a hill hex or two. But that would have been no fun. Instead I tried to get around the hill, mostly because the Brummbaers were defending the center of the board. Needless to say, the Soviets were slaughtered- by turn 4, I had had enough and conceded the victory to my opponent.

This scenario was no fun at all. It would have required the German to make a gigantic tactical mistake for the Soviets to have any chance of victory.