This was overall a very fun time for all the participants. Matt Fritz ran the game and supplied the figures and city. The rules used were Battalions in Crisis. John, Phil, Ted, Ray, Mike, and Kevin were the players.

Situation: Late October 1942. Two German companies: a regular infantry unit and a Waffen SS unit are ready to make their last bid on taking a vital portion of the city or the Tractor Factory. Opposing them are two Soviet Companies: One regular, the other, a sub-machine gun company.

Ted and Ray were the commanders for this bloody struggle. Ted commanded the Germans along with Kevin and Mike. Ray commanded the Soviets along with John and Phil. The game was a battle to control a certain sector of the city or to take the tractor factory. Either objective would bring victory. Both sides deployed their forces in secret and all movement was unknown to the enemy unless they had a clear line of sight. The Waffen SS company was deployed in the factory and the regular company outside of it.

Their mission: To take the factory. The Soviet s had deployed their regular unit on the East Side of the town.

The Soviets deployed their sub-machine gun company inside the factory. Their mission: To take the East Side of town by surprise or take the factory in the event of the former's failure.

The Soviets got the ball rolling with their furious assault on the East Side. John and Phil's forces swept through the area with little resistance. The Alarm went out at the German high command HQ. The Russians were on the rampage on the East Side of the city! The area would fold!

Little resistance was found in the North east part of town as the Russian 1st platoon took it without incident. Phil and John's forces began to meet resistance by Mike's German troops. Both sides were suffering casualties, yet the Russian plan was working. Unbeknownst to them, the Germans were sending reinforcements to their beleaguered comrades. Phil and John's troops had one more block to take! All that stood in their way was one German squad who was pinned down in the street by heavy fire. This unit would not die! As John and Phil attacked, this German squad put out a murderous fire. The Soviet's bid for the East Side of the city was slipping away.

By now, some of Kevin's Platoon was coming to the rescue and ferociously counter-attacked the enemy and began driving them back. The East Side option for the Soviets was now gone. The Russians knew however that German reserves were going to that part of the city and not the factory. It was still quiet at the factory. Both sides waited.

On the North side the Soviet 1st platoon positioned itself with a heavy machine gun towards a German held sector of the factory. Soviet high command deemed the moment right to begin its assault on the factory and to find out what was in there. As 1st platoon charged across the street, a sniper, small arms, and machine gun fire began issuing fire from all parts of the factory. Ted's SS company was in the factory! After dispatching the sniper, the North block of the factory was secured. Ray's Soviet sub-machine Gun Company was ready.

The Germans now held one third of the factory. The Soviet attack began with a furious close combat assault. In bloody hand to hand fighting, the forward sector of SS units along with their command and heavy machine gun unit were wiped out to a man by the Russian Tommy gunners.

The remainder of the SS braced themselves for the firestorm that was sure to come. The Soviets along with their company and platoon command began to assault the last block of the factory complex. A horrified German high command listened on the radio to the plaintive cries of the SS for reinforcements, then static...and unintelligible Russian chatter. The entire Waffen SS company had been annihilated. The battle for the factory was over.