Please Shed Some Light

[Riley D. Smith]

I just finished (surrendered is more accurate) "Crossing the Berezina" from Advance of the Reich. I was the Axis.

At one point, fairly late in the scenario, I was ahead with around 90 vp's (only 30 required for a major victory). The Russians have a small armored force of 7 BT-7's that release as reinforcements late in the game. I have 10 PZ III e's, 4 PZ IV d's and a full compliment of mechanized infantry. The Russian armor has to attack with mostly no infantry support. By games end, I have attacked the Soviet light tanks (with my armor of course) from frontal hexes, flank hexes, and rear hexes. From higher elevations and the same elevations. From 3-4 hexes away and from adjacent hexes.

End result: Zero Soviet losses, and not even one immobilized Russian tank. The Germans? Over 80% armor destroyed.

Please don't take this post wrong...my opponent played very well and absoutely deserves his hard fought major victory. My question is this: Is it even realistic that those Soviet tanks could have decimated my opposing force? That just seems really lopsided as I was under the impression that the BT-7 was at best a mediocre light tank and the German amor was not only better fitted with guns but had better armor.

I never get "emotional" when playing these games because I just enjoying playing, but, this one left me very frustrated and just scratching my head saying "wtf"??

Any designers care to shed some light on this for me?