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My worthy opponent has already published an AAR so will not repeat his session by session report but will limit myself to a few observations and general comment's.
A highly motivated but smaller British combined arms force has moved to block the retreat of the 10th Italian Army, the British commander will win if less than 3 Italian units exit the southern edge of the board. Well that is very unlikely to happen the Italian has 30 Tank platoons plus MTC troops so has enough mobility to scoot around any blocking forces to get three steps off. In other words the British player will not win this scenario.
So as the Italian player my first aim was to get three units off the board ASAP, this would demoralize Treadsaurusrex, and then plan on how to win this blasted scenario.
Our game started with a Brit tank attack which was easily repulsed, my ground forces advanced steadily onwards, the enemy had mainly dug themselves in on the hills to the south and looked like they were content to harass the Italian advance with light tank forces, this worked to some extent and by midmorning had inflicted casualties on the advancing Italian and had captured (surrender rule) some prisoners, however another tank skirmish had resulted in more Brit tank losses and by midday I had exited 3 units to claim the draw. This stirred Treadsaurusrex to counterattack with some INF and HMG units and for awhile his tactic of using firepower to wear down Italian INF and HMF units was working, finally though sufficient Axis tanks joined their beleaguered comrades and pushed the British back to the dug outs, the British commander was killed in the ensuing retreat.
I then waited for night to fall, my "cowardly" opponent was already pleading for a draw but I knew that I could win from here. As night fell my force slowly moved around the British defensive position, Treadhead fired illumination rounds but but only inflicted slight losses. He could see that I was happy to wait and wait until he had exhausted all his illumination round and wait for daylight to begin my final assault. He then graciously surrendered which I gladly accepted.
*Well any scenario this length is bound to have periods of inactivity but this was something else I think if we had continued we would have had about 20 turns of rolling for recoveries and FOW before the final assault. Which I am about 70% sure the Italians would have prevailed. The main issue with this scenario is that a British win is so improbable that only a Masochist would play it as a two player game. OK for solo I suppose but even then pretty tiresome. *
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Troll: 1
Respect and Decorum: 0
IMHO, this poor example of bad sportsmanship in an AAR should be discarded!
Ah the Arizonian Mafia rides out to the rescue once again. I will only repeat what I said the last last time. There was no disrespect intended against my worthy opponent. I do not think he is a coward the comment in the AAR is just banter. However you will note that I am no longer playing FtF games with Treadasaurasrex or anyone else for that matter, so I suppose you can claim the moral high ground.
Way too much heat and too little illumination or understanding.
I say edit or delete both these AARs and this belabored and unhealthy thread.
This, apparently, badly designed scenario is not worth the time and energy.
I say keep Wayne's fabulous victory here in AAR form. Its nice to see reports from other people around the world rather than the sudden non-boom in PG non-personalities all allegedly based in Arizona! LOL. Shameful behaviour and disrespectful to even consider us believing in this idiocy. We all know what is going on here in the Sock-Puppet World of Az and the complete lack of veracity is sadly diluting the stats and reports this amazing site has been provided with by the vast majority of (real) contributors.