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Desert Rats #17 - The Tomb Of Sidi Rezegh Jungle Fighting #7 - Line Of Departure
Desert Rats #18 - A Pibroch's Skirl South Africa's War #5 - Irish Eyes
White Flags over Capuzzo
Author treadasaurusrex (Britain)
Method Face to Face
Victor Britain
Participants sagunto
Play Date 2021-10-17
Language English
Scenario AfKo050

Played this scenario face-to-face in just one session with lots of beer, chips & salsa and no Fog of War rule. Much like the other AARs already on file, an unprepared Italian frontier garrison was attacked and destroyed by a fast-moving British task force accompanied by a single A-9 Cruiser Tank platoon. The British side drew a fine set of leaders. My hard fighting opponent's Italians had no such luck. Oddly, most of my morale, DF, air attack and assault die rolls went my way this time. The British movement to contact was relatively quick and undamaged by Italian artillery. Turns 2 and 3 both featured a RAF attacks that created some demoralized units, includng the only half-strength HMG platoon. This helped the Tommies get adjacent a bit later when the Cruiser Tank unit arrived on the scene. Poor morale doomed the Italian side to a long series of dismal morale checks and inevitable demoralization and surrender. By the end of Turn 13, all 8 steps of Italian Infantry hade been eliminated along with the 65mm field gun and the weakened HMG platoon. Both Italian leaders surrendered when the bulk of the infantry contingent did. Only 3 steps of Italian infantry, the field gun platoon and the HMG were actually destroyed in combat. The rest of this ill-fated garrison ended up as prisoners of war. Only one step of British infantry was lost in the assault on Fort Capuzzo, though there were multiple disruptions along the way. The results were a victory for General Archibald Wavell's Western Desert Force.

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