Secrets of the Third Reich Germans vs Soviet pics

Played a game of Secrets of the Third Reich with David down at the club, mostly for old times’ sake - and the idea came from having seen the Zombie diorama I posted last week. Hauled two platoons with me and David picked the Soviets.

The battle was 50RP per side, and the scenario was gain ground with a modified center zone being worth 2VP instead of 1VP.

Army lists were:

German
Veteran rating + Body armor
Command team
2x Grenadier squads with LMG (1 with additional Mech rifle).
Aufklärer squad with Mech rifle and camo.
Sniper team
2x Panzerschreck teams
Wolf Runner squad
Drop Troopers with Flamethrower, Packed LMG, Anti mech rifle, 2 Assault rifles.

Soviet
Veteran rating + 1 single artillery strike
Command squad
3x Infantry squads with SMG, semi automatic rifles, packed LMG and anti mech rifles,
Siberian Subhuman squad, 1 packed LMG, 1 flamethrower, 3SMG
BA64 armored car
T34/76 tank

The Soviets won a 6-3 victory, both sides were pretty much massacred at the end of turn 5 when the game ended.
I can't say I got an urge to start playing SoTR again, I think it's a good game and it got me away from GW gaming. But compared to many games I play nowadays, I found that it lacked something special. It may have been the "gamey" scenario and the absence of a force morale of some kind, it was just weird to have squads reduced to a single member and still fight as normal when most games I play nowayadays have such units either flee or get some kind of penalty.

It was fun, but not much more. I still have my 5 platoons for this game - don't really know what to do with them. They sadly get extremely little gaming time and are just taking up space/collecting dust.

The pictures from the battle speak for themselves.