This is moderate sized scenarios for the King and Country series dealing with the first fall of Tobruk to the Commonwealth forces. It does involve a decent into night that will cause a little bit of trouble for the Commonwealth if they are not far enough along. Initially, they have quite a good force to attack the Italian defenders with. Infantry, armour and air support to try to push the Italians out of their dug-in positions. The Italians are on the defense and are dugin as well as have minefields, but these will do well to deny the VP's for the British rather than channel their attack.

We will have our three British lieutenants attached to the Australian's for the battle. Each should provide some good characteristics for the attack. The same goes for the Italians, they have three Tenente's to help defend.

The Italians choose to defend the northly tracks and roads with mines, thus providing a harder time for the British to get the VP's for them. They also position infantry around the mines to defend, in a reverse of what one would typically do with mines and dugin infantry. Maximum delay will be the defense.

For the attacking Commonwealth troops, there will be two groups, one moving up the road and one moving up the westerly track that starts on the southern end of the board. Both will look to clear the track and road for the VP points as well as kill and capture Italian troops.

The initial maneuver goes well and the Commonwealth get on the board without too much loss. Advancing quickly up the road the force of infantry and A10 tanks attack the first company location the Italians have setup. Both side get into heat assaults but the Commonwealth morale and leadership tip the odds to the Commonwealth and sappers are able to get started on the first set of mines. To the west the second group takes a bit more casualties from the Italian defenders and needs to rally several platoons before they can engage. When they do they are attacking a mix of regulars and BERS / BERS HMG provide a strong defense. Several Commonwealth artillery and air strikes help to discourage the Italians to begin to retreat. During this fight the first character Tenente is captured by the Commonwealth forces. Sappers go to work on the mines on the track as well.

At this point night starts to fall and the air support goes home. The attackers just have artillery and mortars to support the attack. Along the road they move to the next blocking company and try to knock it out with artillery, but the night time visiblity hampers good spotting so the infantry and tanks need to go in. Once again a back and forth but Commonwealth leadership comes through and the second position is captured. At this point a smaller Commonwealth force moves to the easterly track to de-mine it, but will need to deal with a last defender. Along the road the attack goes after the last hold out in the dark of night. This provides more problems as the Italian start to desperately attack at long odds and win some. But it is not enough and the final defense falls.

The Commonwealth take the road to Tobruk and most of the trails but run out of time to defuse the mines and lose the points for the tracks. But in the end the Italians are routed and the Commonweath wins.

As for our leaders, the three British Lieutenants survive but just break even with leadership points. The Italians lose two, captured in assaults, with one getting away. Few points will add on for the next scenario.