Author	goosebrown
Method	Solo
Victor	Britain
Play Date	2022-01-01
Language	English
Scenario	AfKo050

Second time through solo. This time the British were big winners and still had time for a brew up by 8:45am except they had hundreds of Italians to look after on their way to camps in Canada.

Turn 1 the Brits moved in in road order with the A9 in the lead which moved directly to the wire with the Bren and the HMG following, then the trucks.

Turn 2 the Brits won initiative and the A9 proceeded to destroy the barbed wire then move across the line and to the right to hold the flank. The Bren moved through and unloaded the HMG. The Italians took a shot with the 65mm and disrupted a truck behind them with an INF platoon. The rest of the trucks ignored them and went across the line and unloaded on the left of the road to hold a right flank.

Turn 3 the British got a Hudson that didn't miss and which got an M2 on the 65mm, an INF and the Tenient. All demoralized. In the next activation, the British moved infantry and the A9 right up to the entrenchment and getting the first activation next turn asked for surrender which the Italians quickly gave them.

Still in turn 3 the Brit INF moved to the next hex and became adjacent with 2 INF to the next stack of Italians. Now the Italians fired back at the Brits and got an M but that failed to impress the 1st King's Royal Rifles.

Turn 4 the Brits demoralized the Italians adjacent and moved the A9 to be adjacent But the Italians broke and ran just to give the Brits some exercise as they were dismounted. Brits moved adjacent to the retreating Italians with the Bren, which offloaded the HMG and the A9.

Turn 5 the Brits won the initiative and simply asked the Italians to simply surrender and they did.

Overall, my take away is don't fear wire, it's more or less an ornament if you have a tank and no real AT threat.

My second take away is keep your infantry in separate hexes when loaded so that they don't get wiped out in a lucky shot, then drive them hard for their objectives.

My third take away is that Italians leaders are worse than useless

Enjoyed a lot more the second time through.