Played WO 25 The Replacements an Italian vs Russian on deluxe maps. I was the Defending Russians with an upfront defense but with a few squads in the rear with the gear. I had placed my 45L ATG in the building on the Board l hill map which is adjacent to the only road and access to the rest of the area to ambush the Italian Armor. The Italians do have the option to smash through the woods, which my opponent did attempt with only one tank out of three getting bogged he sent to try and flank around my boys. His other three tanks went after my board l building defense, I had both my ATG and on the 1st level I had my HMG, 9-1 and leader. My opponent used the Italian armor to bypass sleaze freeze me with one tank getting blown up by my ATG, He sent another tank to bypass sleaze freeze me, so I intensed fired my gun and missed, to keep my upper level guys from firing out (I had already killed two squads) he sent another tank in to sleaze freeze me and went CE, I fire my HMG and got a k/ on his CE crew which recalled him, he then sent his last of his 6 tanks in to once more bypass sleaze freeze me and once more I scored a 2MC on the exposed crew, which they failed and being 1 man turrets Auto recalled them. By turn my HMG position was wiped out but I did take down three tanks, so all in all, the Italians had 2 tanks left out of the original 6 (one mired). After that little skirmish, my Opponent had to really move forward, and I really had no AT capability left to really stop his last two tanks, granted I had MOL's, but against motion tanks can be ineffective usually.
The game did go down to the last turn as my two VC buildings got sleaze freezed by his last two tanks, (MOL's failed, streetfighting failed), and thus his infantry was able to move up and paste my defenders on the last turn. Interesting note, one VC building has upper level, so to keep the Russians from doing the old break and rout upstairs bit, my opponent went CE with his bypassing tank, thus if I broke, I would have to rout out. Nice scenario, if more then three or four Italian tanks survive to game end, this can really make holding to the VC buildings really hard for the Russians.