Flames of War followup

I played my first game last night using some of my friend's Italian tanks against American tank destroyers. It was a pretty decent game, with some good ideas and some stuff I didn't like - namely finding out I just automatically lost. I think it's something I'd like to play, even though the intro game was abysmal, due to the people who were teaching us not knowing how to run an actual intro game and just kind of acting like we knew as much as they did.