Played solo over 2 sessions.

I decided to experiment with a suggestion made by posters in the http://www.pg-hq.com/comms/showthread.php?tid=172 thread and set up the Italians in a box anchored by the east edge (you can see a picture of the setup sans leaders and DI counters on page 4 on the same thread).

The Indians entered the board far enough west to be out of range of the Italian mortars. Their first goal was to climb onto the 40m hill before they made their way east towards the Italians. Their force got into fire position within 8 or 9 turns, with only a few stragglers left behind due to failed morale checks.

The Indians concentrated their fire in three hexes until the Italian defenders were shaken by the fire. The Indians moved within assault distance on turn 12.

The battle turned very ugly quickly as demoralized Italian units were forced to retreat into a bunch which was constantly bombarded by the Indian mortars and off-board artillery. The net effect was very few Italian recovered if they failed their first recovery attempt.

Easy Commonwealth victory with all but 3 steps of Italian units eliminated by the end of turn 27.

I did not like (or did not handle well) the box defense anchored by a map edge. The two issues which I had were: (1) all demoralized Italian units were forced to retreat within a very small area and were easy pickings for the artillery, and (2) the Indians had no options but to fight on the small piece of land they occupied at the beginning of the scenario.

I gave this scenario a "2" but keep in mind it may be more a reflection of the defensive setup selected than of the scenario itself.