The Romanians take sufficient losses to lose and the Soviets have a surprise attack of rationality and cancel the assault (random event) resulting in a Soviet win. The Romanians were decimating the Soviets but it really didn't matter as the Romanian position south of the bridge in the woods was overwhelmed resulting in sufficient losses to preclude a Romanian victory. Once the orders were changed, the Soviets couldn't lose. Kind of a gamey result but reflective of what could have happened had the Soviet leadership in the early war had any sort of rational thought process.

This scenario is an example of how optional rules can definitely make a huge difference, in this case the optional rule that allows artillery to kill tanks. Early on the Russians sent a leader to the hill on board 5 so they could quickly observe and bring down artillery on the Romanian positions, particularly with an eye for the two anti-tank guns. The Romanians also sent out a leader so as to bring the Russians under fire with their (the Romanian's) considerable artillery. The Russians managed to take out the two 47mm atgs. However the Romanians had been targeting all their artillery on the Russian tanks. They rolled two hits early on, and with the Russians low moral, the other tank in the hexes targeted often failed moral. After several turns of artillery duels while the Russians approached the bridge the Russians had lost or had demoralized the majority of their armored force. The Russians were not able to cause the Romanians the 10 steps of casualties to bring about a draw, and were just too worn down to accomplish anything significant.

This scenario has a large Red Army INF force supported by tanks tasked to destroy a brideghead over the Dnester defended by Romanian mountain troops. The Romanian's have good morale and excellent OBDA bit are heavily outnumbered. The Romanian set up was a little strange with a small force well to the east of the river holding high ground but several miles from the main force dug in around the bridge and in woods to the south of the bridge. The Soviet's have 40 turns to take the bridge for the win or destroy 10 Romanian steps for a draw. So with plenty of time the main Soviet thrust was initially against the smaller force on the hills, with a secondary move towards the units in the woods. In less than 3 hours fighting the Romanian units on the hills had been eliminated this with some lucky artillery shots from the Soviet OBDA had already taken care of the 10 steps needed to ensure a draw. Red Army losses had been high but the tank platoons were now racing towards the bridge and all the Romanian A/T guns had been destroyed. The result was now in little doubt as over the next 10 turns the Soviet tanks machine gunned the hapless Romanian mountaineers, despite a limited counter attack which delayed the final onslaught by the GT26 there was not one Romanian leader left on the board and all three surviving Romanian platoons were demoralized and heading for home. A too easy Soviet win IMHO, a interesting solitaire puzzle though and a nice change to see early war Soviet tanks doing something other than burn,LOL.