This is a rewriting of an earlier AAR. The scenario challenges the NZ player to capture an airfield in the dark. It’s a very short game . The game ends after four Kiwi steps eliminated or the NZ contingent capturing the airfield by turn 8! This is a very talll order for the 19th Battalion, maybe an impossible one. The German 3rd Parachute Regiment really is too strong for the New Zealanders to get past them. The Germans also possess a 20mm AA weapon that did a swell job of covering a fairly wide valley. The Kiwis had a MkVIb, but this little tank somehow exploded in the real battle. Somehow exploded? I think a certain German AA hit it.

In summary, the NZ advanced too slowly to get. from Galatais across the valley. The 19th was too ponderous in this recreation. In retrospect, the bolder the more daring the attack was probably the only way for New Zealand to prevail.