B&T Izyium Diet Plan - Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

This game went down to the last turn (31). Worth replaying.

This battle seemed to turn on a dime. All was going well, then I found myself scrambling just to stay alive. I found the battle a good challenge for the Russians.

This scenario has great potential but is fatally flawed because the Soviet briefing tells you to attack up the hill on the enemy\'s side of the river which- I correctly deduced- would have likely gotten me slaughtered. My briefing said that if I couldn\'t achieve that, I should seize and hold the two bridges across the river. Had I attempted to do that, not only would I have likely failed to hold the bridges but would have left the flags on my side of the river vulnerable to panzer counterattack from the many covered points at which they may ford the river. Contrary to the briefing, I knew my priority (for winning on points) was to hang onto the flags. So, the objective flags don\'t align with the briefing objectives. This could be a very much better scenario if the flags are placed on the two bridges. Then the reasonably well-balanced sides would be forced into a battle to acquire and hang onto the bridges. If this is fixed (a simple fix) this could be a very good scenario. ~Greg Hill

This scenario has great potential but is fatally flawed because the Soviet briefing tells you to attack up the hill on the enemy\'s side of the river which- I correctly deduced- would have gotten me slaughtered. My briefing said that if I couldn\'t achieve that, I should seize and hold the two bridges across the river. Had I attempted to do that, not only would I have most probably failed to hold the bridges but I would have been leaving the flags on my side of the river vulnerable to panzer counterattack from the many covered points at which the Germans may ford the river. Contrary to the briefing, I knew my priority (for winning on points) was to hang onto the flags. So, the objective flags don\'t align with the briefing objectives. This could be a very much better scenario if the flags are placed on the two bridges. Then the reasonably well-balanced sides would be forced into a battle to acquire and hang onto the bridges. If this is fixed, (a simple fix) this could be a very good scenario.

This scenario has great potential but is fatally flawed because the Soviet briefing tells you to attack up the hill on the enemy\'s side of the river which- I correctly deduced- would have gotten me slaughtered. My briefing said that if I couldn\'t achieve that, I should seize and hold the two bridges across the river. Had I attempted to do that, not only would I most probably failed to hold the bridges but I would have been leaving the flags on my side of the river vulnerable to panzer counterattack from the many covered points at which they Germans may ford the river. Contrary to the briefing, I knew my priority (for winning on points) was to hang onto the flags. So, the objective flags don\'t align with the briefing objectives. This could be a very much better scenario if the flags are placed on the two bridges. Then the reasonably well-balanced sides would be forced into a battle to acquire and hang onto the bridges. If this is fixed (a simple fix) this could be a very good scenario. ~Greg Hill