This has to be the shortest game of PG I have played. So short that I could include every detail in this AAR rather than my short narative.

Setup: Russian vessel, Zheleznyakov, starts off the south edge of board 3 to enter on turn 1 at a speed of 3 as designated in the scenario.

Romanians start out along the banks of the river. 37mm AT with transport wagon at the first bend, 0712. Next 2 cav with a Captain a 0912, another 2 cav at 0911 with an LT. The next 37mm AT gun with transport at 0809 and the third stack of 2 cav with the other LT and LTC at 0808, and lastly the 47mm set up east of the river at the bend at 0805.

Turn 1: Zheleznnyakov enters board, 0717, 0716, ends in 0715, sees and shoots at the 37mm AT gun in 0712, missing. The 37mm AT gun shoots back with it's AT value of 2, hitting with a roll of 9. The vessel has an armor value of 0, so the 9 plus the AT value of 2 gives a step loss. There goes the Zheleznyakov.

This is a short and fun little exercise in some rules that I probably wont get to use often, and makes a good solo target shoot game.

Don't you hate it when you spend the time to find the pieces, set up the games and it is over before you even get a chance to make sure you have the SSRs in mind?

The Soviet gunboat is trying to make it across the map to exit into the Sea of Azov. The scenario narrative give you the idea that the Romanian horsemen lined up along the riverbank and fired away wildly trying to cause the loss of the boat. It leaves out the fact that the Romanianas have three AT gun sections (two door knockers and a 47mm), which, against the "0" armor of the gunboat are more than adequate.

The gunboat enters the board and I decide to try at a 5 range one of the door knockers. It is Opportunity Fire and I roll a "10". Scenario over. As the summary mentions this is probably best for solo play and a whole bunch of them at once since it is likely that the Elusive Zheleznyakov will prove less elusive than it actually was...

The Romanians setup along the river bank, with the anti-tank guns in the front. The Romanian gunboat enters on the south edge and begins firing at the Romanian anti-tank guns. The direct fire is normally ineffective, but the Romanians eventually lose a step due to compound demoralization. The Romanians finally get lucky with their anti-tank fire and the game ends with the gunboat sinking to the bottom of the river.

Result: Romanian Victory. Both sides lost one step.

Even with good rolling on the DF 7-col (7 col; + 1 vs. AT; -1 for range) where the ROM 47mm was demoralized and killed after a failed morale recovery, and other rolls 2x5 and 1x10 and 1x11, the Romanians with their 8-morale and +1 morale bonus leaders simply held against the M and M1 checks (I did demoralize a 10-moraled LT) until the eventual 10+ AT roll by a 37mm AT gun.

Were the Romanian morale 7/6 and had the monitor a '1' armor value this might be interesting.