We started this scenario and found out about 5 turns in that the Soviet player hadn't even pulled his AT guns out of the box during set-up. So we started again.

This time, with all the pieces on the board, my enemy really had a surprise in store for the German attackers. Instead of setting up far-back, as he had in the aborted 5 turn scenario mentioned above, he set up right on top of my troops. As in adjacent. (This is due to the Russian setting up first, and the use of the double-blind rules.)

Needless to say, the Germans were a bit surprised, caught in crossfires and had to jump right off into assaults that burned up time and men and material, (a Tiger was killed on the first turn!) but the outcome was inexorable. Too many Germans, too few Russians, and the surviving Tigers made it very difficult for the Russians to hold on to Butyrki.

The Russian had the right idea, though. If he had just set up one hex further back, the German would have had to either fire or move- in the first case, losing precious time, in the second case taking inevitable losses against a dug-in enemy. That's what made this seeming-roll-over scenario a 4.