Klyuchi – Attrition (a tutorial)

[Strela]

The casualties can be frightening. I've wondered if the larger scenarios might not suffer from something that can also occur in Moscow '42 where the Soviets concentrating lots of artillery on one or two leading units can cause losses the Axis can't sustain, thus stopping an attack without much of a counter (after all, some of your units just have to get into clear terrain to attack). It gets worse the more Katyusha's there are.

The second large III Panzer Korps in particular looks like it might be a massacre for the Germans.

There is a limit to how much artillery can hit a hex in any particular turn (unlike PzC). This helps to moderate the losses. The other key thing that Dog Soldier has rightly called out is use your smoke. Intelligent use of smoke can do wonders to preserving men bounding forward.

Artillery can target unspotted units but it can't target unspotted hexes - there is a difference!

David