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Promising start but the Italians just surrendered
Author campsawyer
Method Solo
Victor Britain
Play Date 2011-05-21
Language English
Scenario AfKo017

This is a interesting scenario but needs some tweaks. The scenario is an automatic British victory, without a lot of luck for the Italians. The surrender rule really gives the British a edge that is too big for the Italian player to overcome and the defeat of the Italian will occur without help. What is interesting is stringing out the Italian setup end to end of the board, it was one big conga line or surrender line.

For my play the British entered both at eastern and western side of the south edge of the board. The Italians immediately went after the British guns with there guns and scored a step loss on the 2pdr AT gun and its truck, one turn later the Lt with them was double disrupted. The 25 pdr stayed in good order but its Lt was disrupted a couple of times. Meanwhile the tanks closed on the Italians. In a vain attempt to slow them, the Italians OP fired but failed to score any morale checks. The British started to call for surrender from their tanks and the Italians obliged. Within two turns 10 steps and 3 Tenenates had surrender the ones that didn't were hit with DF and disrupted. A couple of brave Italian INF's tried to assault the tanks, but were beaten back and surrendered too. The British continued down the line and the Italians continued to surrender in mass. One more Italian assault yielded a disruption on an A13, but they recovered the next turn. By turn 7 the British VC had been achieved.

This is an interesting scenario but the VC's need to be modified to give the Italians a chance, possibly not surrendering by turn XX or something like that. They have no way to slow them even with the guns that they have the British could easily take them out with with the better armored tanks. Possibly some lucky rolls the Italians may win.

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