Kharkov seemed easier, IIRC there were 2 AAA during beta 1, just 1 AAA this time making it a lot easier to bomb the city into submission.
I started to cross the Donets at turn 11 this time - forgot how tough those taks in the last wave really are, took a beating there before being able to destroy them - having air superiority surely did help.
And it looks like Izyum has less defenders, too, or have they just spawned there in beta1?
I could have won a DV at turn 16, but I was far away from reaching the other objectives - only just entered Izyum and except Severodonetsk all objectives on the right side of the Donest are still in Soviet hands.
In the end I failed to take Vovchansk, but got the airfield
DV at 20/20 with 4.5k prestige, but the repair bill should be fairly high - 3.3k prestige left after elite reinforcements for all units.
Got 3 heroes IIRC and even 1 Iron Cross II.
With more prestige now throughout the DLC 3.3k look ok to me for playing on FM - should be able to get quite a few upgrades. As mentioned above, it felt like there were less AAA which helped the Luftwaffe. It felt like there were less enemy aircraft, too, but this might just be due to having been used to seeing them pretty much every other turn in the later scenarios.