A small fast battle, with only about a reinforced company for the British with American self-propelled guns in support versus a company of German paratroopers with an Italian tank platoon. The Germans have to defend a pair of hills on the east half of the board, the Allies need to take them.

The Allies set up in a wadi that just about crosses the board from North to South near the middle. The Germans have most of their forces on the hill closest to the Allies, the Italians in reserve behind the hill, with the remainder of the Germans on the second hill.

The Allied attack kicks off with two British platoons in Bren carriers driving forward to fire on the dug in Germans, with desultory OBA, mortar fire and the American half-track assault guns joining in. After about an hour of ineffective attacks, the German para mg on the flank is disrupted, so the Brens drive up and dismount their charges. While the initial assault almost falters, the dismounted infantry still in the wadi surge forward along with the American guns, so a point blank general melee ensues. At this point, with the Allies fully committed, the Italians drive out their tanks, but they are taken out before getting a chance to fire in anger by the Americans.

Fighting on the first hill reaches a crescendo, the last of the British infantry advances to keep the Germans on the second hill from intervening on the first hill. In the closing half hour of battle, the Allied force races toward the remains of the German force clustered in front of the second hill. More assaults take place and time runs out just minutes from the Allies possibly securing the second hill. A minor Allied victory, almost a major.

A fun little scenario, I initially had no hope that the Allies would succeed in clearing the first hill at all, but steady attacks and steady nerves allowed them to lever a nearly equal force out of the dug in hilltop position. Quite a feat actually, and a nice exercise in economy of force. Another factor was the German air power, which should have provided an attack on about half of the turns, rarely appeared and failed to influence the outcome at all.