Played in about 5 hours against young Daniel (Hugmenot) this scenario has a small Italian force trying to battle across 2 boards while surrounded by Ethiopian INF. The Italians can expect to get reinforcements at some stage these may include armoured cars and one aircraft bombing run, the Italians have slightly better morale and have MG. The set up is interesting as the Ethiopian player can set up adjacent and has automatic initiative in the first turn. As the Italian player I massed my MG at the front of my column hoping that I would shrug off the initial attacks by the Ethiopians and then use firepower to disrupt and demoralize the native troops and just push through them and then use fire and movement to get on tot he VC board without losing to many casualties. Well I was wrong on every count. Far from shrugging off those first attack my units Disrupted and Demoralized themselves, Daniel then surrounded my force using the terrain and his limited leaders well. He then proceeded to wipe out the entire Italian starting force with the exception of one LT who ran to the rear. My reinforcements arrived far too late to influence the battle and the Ethiopians moved off into the Hills and Woods to celebrate a famous victory. So want went wrong, well almost everything, the Italians starting forces do not have the strength to push through the Ethiopians and therefore should try to out flank them if possible. In fact in our post game chat both Daniel and I agreed that winning the game of the Italians looks pretty tough and perhaps it would be more prudent to play for a draw by retreating the Italians and forcing the Ethiopians to advance to attack them. **To sum up this scenario is an interesting puzzle for both side but looks to favour the Ethiopians far too much, however Daniel played well using his native troops to pour fire into the Italians and only assaulting once the enemy were disrupted or demoralized. Well done to him as for me back to the drawing board.*