German tanks advanced east along road. Two British A13's moved forward to try and hit the Germans with flank shots, but PzIIIG's eliminated two steps, driving them back to the hill. One A13 sat on a hill and with two long range shots, knocked out two steps of PzII. As the Germans moved to the east, the good British shooting continued, with one more step of PzII knocked out as well as a PzIIIG step. The Germans exited their remaining units off the board and so the Brits retreated to the north and south. It was a British major victory and German minor, making it an overall British minor. Fun, fast scenario that can go either way. Will need to play it again.

Gave it a 5 because it was just armor and fast paced. The Germans and British parried side to side and the Germans got a hit in, making their British wary of closing in. The Germans just got their last units off on turn 9 with no losses. German victory. Fun scenario.

Un tout petit scénario de tanks : en avril 41, des chars A13 anglais (trois pelotons) protègent la retraite d’unités d'artillerie. Des allemands les poursuivent : six pelotons de chars dont quatre de PzIV plus puissants que les A13. Ils doivent traverser une grande carte et sortir cinq unités, et s’ils détruisent les anglais en chemin, c’est tant mieux. Neuf tours pour ça, à la tombée de la nuit.

A ma première tentative, les anglais viennent à la rencontre des allemands, en s’écartant pour essayer de gagner des bonus avec des tirs croisés. Les allemands se répartissent aussi et détruisent en quelques tours les chars anglais. Il reste un seul pas de A13, mais les allemands ont perdu trop de temps ! A un tour près, ils ne sortent qu’une seule unité : match nul alors que les anglais ont été éradiqués mais ils ont effectivement retenu les allemands.

Deuxième essai : les anglais restent sur une position défensive, sur une colline située juste avant le point de sortie des allemands. Ceux-ci cherchent à contourner par le sud, et finalement, à la nuit tombée, se faufilent en résistant à quelques tirs d’opportunité, en ayant juste tué un seul pas des anglais. Victoire mineure allemande, alors que les anglais sont presque intacts.

Très sympa, proche du scénario « Tank battle at Chisinau » dans Eastern Front.

I also played #34 Pursuit of the 2nd Armored, form Afrika Korps again! The first time I played it, it was a draw and it was fast play back in 2002, so I decided to play it again, in fact two more times. As of this moment counting tonight and last year, I have One Draw, One Major British Victory, One Major German Victory and no minor victories! I guess I’ll play it a forth time someday to break the tie, maybe? I tried different strategies each time and got different results each time.

Played against Joseph Ladd over skype. Joseph had choice of forces and bravely picked the Brits. This scenario has three platoons of A13's trying to delay a superior Africa Corps tank force of PZIII's and PZII's. The Germans have nine turns to exit units and destroy 4 British steps for a major victory. The British commander advanced to meet the German thrust down the road, one A13 unit was left in reserve, the first two turns saw some jockeying for position as the PZII's scuttled to safety away from the British tanks while the PZIIIf and PZIIIg tried some long range shooting to no effect. In fact first blood went to the brave Brit tanker who shot up the nearest PZIII platoon, however they passed their morale check which meant they remained a threat, in reply the following turn the PZIIIg's superior firepower told soon some time some burning A13's were littering the desert. My unlucky opponent then failed his morale by three and the demoralized tankers fled to play no further part in the battle. The tide had now turned and using fire and movement the Africa Corp units advanced to the edge of the hill where the British made a stand. However the better armour prevailed and another platoon was swiftly destroyed. The road was now open and the Panzers swept on for a major victory. This was a super little scenario, played in 45 mins and we both enjoyed it so much that when I offered Joseph a rematch having changed sides he jumped at the chance. For the aar see part 2 sides

Those of you intrepid readers who have read part 1 will know that for this rematch I was the British and Joseph was the dastardly Hun. Having seen what had happened in Part 1 I had decided on a totally different strategy to Joseph's. My A13's stayed on the hill and dug in. While this meant giving up ground I hoped this would help nullify the superior firepower of the PZIIIg's. The German's moved forward and divided into two groups making a north/south pincer movement on the A13's position. The British commander decided to tackle the northern thrust, keeping one unit dug in, the other moved northwards trying to get a crossfire shot on the advancing Germans. The German tankers though drew first blood but in sharp contrast to out first game the Brits did not flinch. This enabled the A13's to get into crossfire positions and accurate shooting completely destroyed a PZIIf platoon. The reward for the plucky unit who had passed their morale was annihilation but they had done the job and the British having destroyed 2 steps of enemy tanks had won a minor victory could they now deny the enemy a victory of any sort. As night fell a tense game of cat and mouse followed as both sides tried to get into positions to win, at one stage the PZ11's strayed into view of a A13 tank commander but then the turn ended. In fact the tension got to my opponent who had lost track of game turns, and made the error of passing in an attempt to get me to move first, I also passed and in effect he wasted a turn. This meant that with vis down to one hex he could not see the Brit tanks to kill them and and not enough time to get his last two units off the board. The British commander who had been prepared to go for a draw had won an unlikely victory. This was an even better game in many ways than the first one and I would suggest this is the way to play this scenario with both players swapping sides. Every turn was tense and although the scenario is pro German, it is still fun to play. Yes it is dicey and yes it is short but so is my wife and I like her too. Highly recommended.

I love the PG system, but the rules are among the worst-written I've ever seen.*

This scenario is basically impossible for the Germans in light of 11.3 Increased Range coupled with the complete absence of German tank leaders. I house ruled that the German tanks could move closer to the Brits while in range as long as the Brits couldn't score a hit after factoring in the die modifiers. Otherwise the Germans can't come within 8 hexes of a Brit tank, and the Brits win just by spreading out N-S along the ridge.

As it was, the two sides traded some shots as the Germans maneuvered for crossfires. Once the sun started to drop and sighting ranges went down, a Brit platoon just skeddadled back to 0115 and dug in, making it impossible for the Germans to force an exit in the time remaining.

Minor Brit victory since they'd eliminated two German steps.

• I've been wargaming for more than 50 years and have literally a few hundred games in my collection.

A bloody draw resulted as the British worked to prevent the Germans working around the flank and set up crossfires. Both sides lost three steps and the Germans exited their 5th unit on the last turn of the game.

Started this quick scenario as a lunch time game. The initial action, as in many close-range scenarios, starts with the first initiative die roll, giving the Germans the opportunity to get to the hill first. The British armor targeted the Panzer IIs thinking of a quick 4 steps towards victory, but the force wasn't with them today. Both sides maneuvered a little between shots to try to get adjacent target shots, but the Germans were in a better position to get a crossfire fairly quickly, drawing first blood/step loss with a resulting Demoralized result. The Germans were unable to kill a second step of any one platoon, for a while, but they didn't really need to for several turns, taking in turn a step from each of the other two British tank platoons, followed finally by a second step loss on the northern most British platoon. The first British platoon to be hit failed his recovery roll and took off down the road to get out of the 150% range of the German MkIIIG, finally succeeding in shedding his demoralization and then disruption. The other surviving demoralized reduced British tank platoon passed the returning one on the road after he also failed his recovery test. Although the gallant British surviving armor tried a final shot in the growing darkness, it just was not to be, and all 6 steps of German armor succeeded in turning and heading back down the road for a major victory. Great game, reinforcing my knowledge of armor rules and my first British vs Germany scenario.

The Brits sat on the hill, waiting for the Germans to close in. The 3 tank platoons failed to dent the German armour. The Germans flanked to both sides of the Brits, and then started firing. In the ensuing bloodbath, all British tanks were eliminated for onely one German step loss. Major axis victory.

Author	Chaco (Germany)
Method	VASSAL
Victor	Britain
Participants	treadasaurusrex
Play Date	2022-02-14
Language	English
Scenario	AfKo034

In a 1-session, training play-through of this 9-turn scenario, I played the advancing German panzer force. This was a fun play for a beginning player, but a great learning experience. Had I started making a straight dash for the exit hex just a little sooner, I might have scored a minor German victory, but alas, the wily British outsmarted the cautious German strategy of "shoot and scoot" and plugged the exit hex just one turn before the panzers got there. Better counting of hexes and turns will make this scenario a possible win next time.

This was a decent training scenario for moving tanks, setting up an overwatch position, and making contact with the minimum force. The British Commander had a difficult time contending with the German's flanking company of Pz-II tanks, but by the end was able to eliminate 3 steps of charging panzers.

In short, "my kingdom for a horse," or a victory for just a single hex!

In this remarkably small and remarkably short scenario, 6 German tank platoons must cross the width of the board and exit at a particular hex while fighting off 3 British tank platoons which will probably occupy a ridge which will provide some cover.

My Brits apparently had some pretty good shooters as they eliminated three steps of PzIIIs but couldn't get the fourth step and the Germans were able to get five units off the board but could only eliminate 1 British step.

The short scenario requires the Germans to avoid much fighting in favor of motoring across the board. If they stop to fight they will win the gunnery battle but will not get off the board in time. Much like the white rabbit in Alice they are always seemingly behind schedule.

With such a small number of units and the need to get off the board so pressing this pretty much falls into a pattern of Germans moving and British shooting. I give it a "2" but a fun one for the British.

I picked this one out for one of Vince and I's brief evening sessions as it was just 9 turns and seemed to have a fair enough play balance. I thought in the worst case it may end in a draw but it turned out even worse than that for me as the British player. I basically set my three units of outdated A13s with one attempting to block the road and the other two spaced apart on each flank. The PzIIIs rolled right up braving opportunity fire leaving their little thin-skinned PzII buddies behind and out of range. I didn't bother with opportunity fire as I would of needed to roll "12"s to get a hit. Instead I began to dig-in with the tanks blocking the road and relied on the flanks for supporting fire. Digging-in was probably not the best idea as I already benefited from being on a higher elevation and it ended up costing me four potential shots; I was already outnumbered and outgunned as it was. So the PzIIIs eliminated one step of my clunkers on the south flank leaving the remains demoralized and fleeing. Not one of my shots made it through the thicker German armor; I needed "11"s and the closest I got was rolling one "10". Soon the tank platoon on the north flank was reduced and disrupted and Vince was able to easily manuever around and get behind my last good-ordered tank attempting to hold the road and crossfire was set-up and soon utilized with deadly efficiency. By the fifth or sixth turn all of his panzers were able to exit before sundown with no casualties while all that remained of this detachment of the "Filthy Fifth" RTR was one demoralized and reduced A13 scurrying away south.

Not an awful scenario overall, just not exciting enough to warrant a "3" rating from me as a shared play. It was really up to a few dice rolls and whoever got lucky first. As the British I had zero luck. If I had been able to score just one hit and at least delay the panzers then I would of had a chance at at least a draw and also balanced the odds with being outnumbered as the PzIIs really didn't count towards a firefight. In hindsight it may of been better to have deployed on the road only and then spaced apart along it instead of spreading out in flanks. Digging-in the one unit was probably not very brilliant either as it ate up two turns. Probably even more humiliating was having my girlfriend actually observe this as a spectator for her first viewed PG game. I guess if any good comes out of this she has said she wants to play PG now! So this did suit for a quick evening play but quicker than I imagined as it was all over in less than an hour. I also think it's good instructional scenario for introducing a beginner to armored units.

This game was played over Skype with Brett in a 33 minute session !! I was looking for a quick evening game between work days and Brett picked out this small tank battle from Afrika Korps.

On turn 1 the German PzIII's advanced straight up the road towards the 3 x plns of British A13's deployed in line with each a hex apart. The British were set up on the hill ridge so really, the Panzers were forced to advance within 3 hexes in order to see them. In a 9 turn game, there is little time to flaff about so I had to display some boldness. The advance was done in segments so as to tempt the British to fire out of turn. The British held fire patiently and then, when their sights were settled, 2 platoons opened up on the Germans whilst one on the road started digging in. The German PzII's stayed out of range of this tank battle. The British fire whizzed by the PzIII's missing all shots.

Turn 2 and the Germans win initiative by 1 AS. Only the 2 x PzIIIG's open up and they succeed in hitting a step from the A13's on the British left flank. The remaining step demoralises. One A13 pln returns fire, missing again and the centre A13 completes digging in. The 2 x PzIIIF's so far unactivated, seize their chance with the remaining good order British already fired or digging-in and they rush up the road, past the British line and take position behind the enemy so as to set up crossfire. The 2 x PzII's start digging in, continuing to keep their weak armour out of range and safe.

Turn 3, the British win initiative by 1 AS and one A13 pln fires at the G's to their front. They miss again but only by a whisker with one shot. The PzIIIF's behind them return fire. They missed, but had set up the crossfire confusion for the IIIG's to follow up. Once again, British fire missed and the IIIG's eliminate another 2 steps of A13's, leaving just the dug-in A13 platoon on the road to resist.

Turn 4, the Germans get a 2 AS advantage and both the F's and G's open up from both sides. This finishes off the remaining A13 platoon. The reduced demoralised A!£ step continues to fail recovery and the PzII's finally advance up the road toward the board edge now that the 'coast' is clear.

Turn 5 - All 6 German tank platoons exit off the map safely to chase down those guns mentioned in the notes and claim a major victory

In 33 minutes the game ended. No German losses, 5 British A13 steps left in smoke.

This gets just a '2' from me. It was fun to win, but really comes down to dice rolling with the minimum of manouvre once the guns do open up. As results show, it is pretty close in balance, but today was the Germans day. The lack of depth in it for me is what warrants the 2 rating and that is all. My main surprise is given some of the biggie scenarios I get involved in, I am surprised this gets the same play notation of 1 play. Of course there is little other choice, but boy, it was a quick game :-)

Author	goosebrown
Method	Solo
Victor	Germany
Play Date	2022-01-21
Language	English
Scenario	AfKo034

The scenario notes that the three platoons of A13 Cruiser tanks thought they were being chased by Italians so turned to stop the pursuit.

Big. Mistake. Twice.

I played it twice and it was worse the second time.

So the A13s of the 5th RTR all start within one hex of the road at the base of a hill. The other side of that hill is the German's exit point and they need to exit steps without losing more than 2 steps.

With a slight initiative advantage, the panzers of the 5th Panzer Regiment simply charged down the road to meet the A13s closing to bumper car range (except the PzKW IIs which followed along like the fragile little flowers they are (Patton could have slapped one in Algeria and had the rest in Tunisia turn belly up from sheer relayed fright...))

Next turn the Germans won a two action initiative roll and simply shot three steps away out of 6 steps present and demoralizing one step. The Brits, bless their little hearts, fired back and took one step from the Pz IIIfs. German won the initiative again the next turn and the 7 steps of Pz IIIs just finished what they started. With nothing to hide behind there wasn't much for the A13s to do except burn.

Next play I moved the A13s back over the ridge as the Germans came on the same old way. Hoping to get a reverse slope sort of defense I split the Cruisers north and south to cover the road and hopefully get a cross fire on the Pz IIIs, but no such luck. The Germans won the initiative with a 1 action advantage and they butchered the northern platoon then took a step from the two platoons in the south. Half the Brits gone by turn three. Then the 8 steps of Pz IIIs and Pz IIs on the road just drove away while the last 4 steps of Pz IIIGs shot up the A13s till they stopped moving. The A13s did not even get one step. It was brutal.

If you have to use a 2pdr against panzers, you really need a lot of armor to protect you so you can get multiple hits before they knock you out. I would have traded all the Cruisers here for two steps of Matildas and it might have been a fair fight in terms of victory conditions in that they could have sat on the Axis exit hex and toughed it out.

Note that this is a short scenario so any way you do it it is fast.

Also it is into the setting sun so if the Germans move methodically, they are going to have to get closer and closer to fight which is not a great idea considering how fragile the British armor is at a few hexes.

Good lesson on the Pz III v Cruiser match up.