Has anyone had success with RV's 2nd training scenario?

[White Eagle]

I finally scored a major victory in this scenario, 93 points . 2 leaders and 22 men killed for me, 1 leader and 17 Germans killed and both 50 point objectives captured, the last objective captured on the last turn.

I found this scenario to be extremely tough, taking into account Rabbit's (Bill's) strategy I still had to modify the plan slightly and I am not sure I could run the scenario with the same plan and get the same spectacular results. There was a lot of luck that came along with good planning and I had to manage my time well because there is not much wiggle room with 16 turns. I felt like I was on a tightrope here!

One thing I had to change was the placement of the CO/HQ section, the building at 7,13 was a magnet for artillery and I was losing my Kapitan in most scenarios due to the building being raked with MG and arty rounds. I put the Kapitan in 7,14 and he survived and it did not seem to impact the artillery rounds even though he was not in LOS.

I stayed with Bill's plan and went up the middle with the whole company despite it being mined. I took a few loses there. I lost 2 platoon leaders before I had taken my 1st objective. One died to a mine I believe and the 2nd to enemy fire. My 1st Platoon Leader did an amazing job bringing up the "rear" and keeping units moving. I lost track of how many Demoralized units and Pinned units he rallied but it was the 1st Platoon leader that kept my attack going and kept it steady. In the abscence of other leaders, my attack would have ground to a halt if it was not for this single Lieutenant. He literally worked his way up the line of squads that where hanging back pinned or demoralized and got them moving again.

My 1st Platoon leader deserves some sort of Soviet medal haha.

I wish I knew how many losses my artillery did, the 1st objective felt like it was softened up some, maybe I got a lucky hit.

Overall a very fun scenario to play, now that I have it beat I can safely move on to the next one.

Thank you Bill/Rabbit!