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They Wore Skirts
Road to Dunkirk #29
(Attacker) Germany vs Britain (Defender)
France (Defender)
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Scenario Rank: --- of 958
Parent Game Road to Dunkirk
Historicity Historical
Date 1940-05-27
Start Time 13:30
Turn Count 26
Visibility Day
Counters 130
Net Morale 0
Net Initiative 2
Maps 4: 119, 120, 125, 126
Layout Dimensions 86 x 56 cm
34 x 22 in
Play Bounty 182
AAR Bounty 166
Total Plays 3
Total AARs 1
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River Crossing
Road Control
Urban Assault
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Smoke
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Joint Forces Battle
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Road to Dunkirk Base Game
Introduction

After the HaltBefehl, the panzers resumed the offensive in the afternoon of 26 May. The Germans soon gained a small bridgehead across the Canal d’Aire close to La Bassée. In the early morning a depleted company of the 1st Camerons supported by French Somua tanks counterattacked and drove the enemy back across the canal, albeit at a high cost in casualties. Although the Camerons had won their position, they could not hold it so they withdrew to form a defensive arc around the town.

Conclusion

Rommel had to order every weapon to fire from the south side of the canal on the French tanks while the engineers desperately tried to speed up the bridge work. Eventually some panzers began to cross on a shaky bridge and poured onto the north bank. Thanks to pontoons, the 7th and the 5th Panzer Divisions were soon massing across the canal. La Bassée was attacked from the west and Salomé from south. A column of tanks moved north of Violaines and surrounded the British headquarters. Although the French Somuas and the British anti-tank platoons disabled or destroyed numerous German tanks, the initiative went to the Germans and one by one the villages fell. Then came 18 tanks of the 4th/7th Royal Tank Regiment in support. Their action combined with the Somuas eventually allowed some of the trapped Scots to escape but most of the Camerons in the front-line companies were either killed, wounded or captured; the battalion only consisted of 79 men when it was evacuated from Dunkirk. On the French side, the battalion-sized 7th Recon Group lost about one hundred men. The city of Lille, Rommel’s objective, was within reach of the Germans.


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