Eye of the Needle - Combat Mission: Red Thunder

This involved a lot of infantry fighting in the woods. Most terrain was severely restricted for the few vehicles that were in the scenario. If you want to work on Soviet infantry tactics in woodland fighting give this one a try.

Great battle with good tactical challenges for both sides. It is skewed in favour of the Allied player however as they can win the game by hitting two touch objectives, knocking out the small flak guns and then contesting the south bank German objective. In addition, the 5 x SU-76s are a big advantage as the only long range anti-tank assets are the two 20mm flak and they are easily taken out by mortars. The balance could be improved by either of the following:

1) Replace the flak guns with 2 x 20mm armoured cars; or

2) Put the Russian touch objectives on the south side of the map between the edge of the marsh and the village objective.