An Army At Dawn, Scenario #33: Kasserine Pass: Egged On

A nice looking scenario, the Americans and Germans setup a few hexes across from each other, both sides dug-in and the Italians enter the map on turn one as well. The Axis have three victory objectives to try and achieve different victory levels or not. So the Axis have to be the aggressor and the Americans have to defend kind of spread out across the map, as they want to prevent the Axis from getting one of their victory conditions of exiting 20 steps off the west edge of the map.

The Germans armor isn’t that great against dug-in Sherman tanks and suffer some losses but fortunately for them, a Large Italian Army comes on with some pretty strong units and the Sherman Tanks have to leave their dug-out positions to try and adjust their lines and defend the 60 meter hill but get blasted in that attempted. The Americans half-tracks have some nice weapons on them but are too weak to defend very long, same for the Italian AC90/53. The Infantry were in a melee across the battlefield and the Germans could not have fought this battle without their Italian reinforcements, no way but once those numbers came on, the American lines crumbled. Both sides have some nasty off board artillery and on board support weapons.

The Axis achieve all three of the victory objectives and in the first half of the game that didn’t look possible. I feel I shouldn’t have defended all three objective as the Americans, maybe just one big defensive position around the 60 meter hill and let the Axis have the west edge victory condition and hoped not to lose as many steps as they did on this game play. Great scenario, I just needed to setup a better defense.

One thing that is kind of odd, the conclusion of this scenario talks about both an Italian and an American Colonel but no Colonel leader counters were included in this scenario. I feel both should be added, just to make it more historical.