Author	goosebrown
Method	Solo
Victor	Germany
Play Date	2023-02-18
Language	English
Scenario	AAAD009

An Army at Dawn - Scenario 9 Bordj Toum

The American CCB had a serious problem. Two companies of infantry, with good artllery support and a short batallion of M3 tanks holding the vilage of xxxx against a combined arms thrust from the German 10th Panzer motorized infantry with good morale, motorcycle recon troops, tanks from the pathetic PzKwII to the PzKwIV with all sorts in between.

Since the Americans did not have enough to really stem the tide with a forward defense, so the American company on the north side of the road defending a roadblock of visible mines made a timely retreat back to Bordj Toum. The Americans on the south side of the road held their hilltop position in forlorn hope.

The Germans, blessed with enough trucks to carry everything, charged up the road toward the mine roadblock at the far approach of Bordj Toum and then dismounted while the armor pivoted to the right and took overwatch positions on the ridge to the north of the road covering the American retreat from their former positions.

Both sides traded artillery fire for the next half hour as the Germans consolidated their positions on the north side of the road. The same time the Germans sent their recon elements to the south to harass the remaining American troops there on the hill above the minefield on the road.

The Americans moved their M3s directly in back of Bordj Toum to the north and into the town itself where they took up position to hold off the German armor. The German armor moved off the ridge to the north of the road and attacked directly into the town with the PzIVs on overwatch taking well aimed shots at the American M3s. The next hour or so was a gun duel between the panzers and the M3s but slowly the M3's took losses and had to consolidate their positions in Bordj Toum itself which at this time came under infantry assault.

For the next two hours the Afrika Korps and it's tanks steadily pressed the Americans until they'd had enough and fled yielding the field to the Germans. Although the Germans took losses in the end, they were left in the decisive victory.

Although the Germans took losses in the end, they were left in the decisive victory and the American forces fleeing the battlefield.

Very good scenario. Great infantry assaults. Great combined assaults. Great armor Gongun duels. Fantastic and accurate artillery. Highly recommended would play again