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I chose my tank group to enter first, sending some of them to assault the village while I sent the others to intercept the Russian tanks that would be approaching from the north. North is towards the bottom of the map as I saw it. Before we began, I secretly selected which group would arrive on turn 1 the other group would arrive on turn 2. The Germans were assaulting with two waves: 11 squads and 3 tanks from the east and 4 squads and 5 tanks from the west. The Russians began with 16 squads, 1 Gun and 2 tanks and with 7 more tanks entering on Turn 1. The scale of the battle can be seen from the map: three boards lined up together, with all areas playable on the boards. Michael chose to play the Russian defenders and I played the German attackers.

Against them was a force of Russian soldiers, AFVs and Guns.

Set in Hungary in 1944, this action saw the German player trying to capture nine or more multihex buildings. (I recorded the location of all the units and set the scenario up again between the sessions). However, this scenario, the second-last scenario in Starter Kit #3, took us a much longer time to play through: almost 5 hours in total, split between two Friday afternoons. Most of the Starter Kit scenarios that Michael and I have been playing are quite short, although the later SK3 scenarios with tanks are taking us longer to resolve.