Back to the Desert! Just a quick AAR on this one, The Italians with some help of a small German Battalion on mixed units must defend hex 1810 area. The British attack with their first combat group right away and more British & Australian reinforcements arriving on turn 9 of an 18 turn game. Either side can also win by enemy steps eliminated but the British can also win by area control. The surrender rule is in effect.

The Italians are all dug-in around hex 1810 and those Matilda start to look like they will just surrender the Italian to victory when the Germans reinforce the Italian positions to make a much better fight of it and cancel out the surrender rule. The MK Vlb is too weak of a light tank to get close and is quickly lost to a lowly PZ II & a 47mm AT gun. After that it’s a slugfest, assaults start to happen and even the strong Matilda’s are easily lost in this type of combat. The British get the reinforcements on turn 9 but in the end, this helped the Allied player attacked more areas, both sides had already achieved their step loss victory conditions. The Axis needed to knock out 7 enemy steps and had taken out 12 Allied steps, where the Allies needed to take out 20 or more Axis steps or control the 1810 hexes and three hexes surrounding it, they took out 25 enemy steps but did not control the 1810 areas. Both sides win, resulting in a draw.