As the 4th edition demo game has a duplicate entry in the 3rd edition demo game "game" I decided to give it a go with the 3rd edition rules for fun. It actually makes a significant difference with fields being blocking terrain, so the Soviet artillery, if being held safely in the town, cannot see past the fields in front of them to fire. Scenario/module rules dictating that the 76mm can only fire over open sights.

Without as much artillery interference, the Germans have an easier time more or less walking up to the Soviet defensive line; dug into the fields in order to try and get some decent opportunity fire shots. The low counter density allows the Germans to spread wide and avoid Soviet OBA almost entirely, suffering only 1 distruption on the approach.

Arriving in tact, with combined arms, and better morale, the Soviets are pushed aside without much difficulty, and with a comfortable 3 turn window are removed from the town as well resulting in a pretty quick and painless German victory. If played as intended with 4th edition rules this would give the Soviets a bit more punch, and make the Germans a bit more caution with their Stugs, but I'm going to be playing this one twice more with 4th edition rules in the demo game and the KBT module so I had some quick fun here.

As far as an actual demo goes, this scenario works fairly well as a single player experience. Germans get combined arms and Soviets have a few defensive options to try out. German strength is strong enough to prevent the game from bogging down as well. I feel this was quite similar to 3rd demo scenario #1 in that respect but the Germans have a more completeable task. The old take control of town #2 scenarios were always a pain. The scenario does lack in Soviet Armor though, which probably should be included in a demo scenario, as all 3 scenarios lack such and thus have no tank vs tank action.