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Here we go, ready to play the Crusader scenario! GT57/3 to GT65/1.
57/3:
Initiative si to the Allies by scenario rules and move 1st.
Weather is: Sandstorm on map C and D. So no air movement except transfers and readying again aircrafts.
The Allies transfers Hu II B's and Maryland to Malta to better reco naval lanes and better protect the island.
The sandstorm is heavily impeding movement, so the Allies is just trying to regroup some very dispersed units.
The Axis is moving the 21st Panzer division to outside Bardia and create on German battlegroup with all present troops there and the same is done with the Italians. Italians can only have two such groups. The Germans, how many they want. The Savona division is slowly coming back to Bardia trying not to be crushed by the Allies, thanks to the sandstorm. Trieste division is regrouping to work as a division.
At Tobruk, the Brescia, Trento, Bologna divisions and the 90 Le plus Arko Arty regiment are attacking.
All Arty regiments are used to reduced allied fortifications one level.
On the Eastern approach, the 16th Infantry brigade and the 32nd Army tank brigade stand together.
In the center, the 70th Infantry division is on guard but with only one infantry brigade and all possible Arty units. On the Western approach, the Polish brigade stand with the 23rd Infantry brigade.
Attack 1: After reducing one level of fortifications on the Eastern approach, 90 Le division and Bologna division attack the Allies. One English battalion is pinned with a 1 loss as well.
Allies defend with 72 raw points (7) and Axis with 119 raw points (12)
12 minus 7 = 5 -1 Allies morale, -1 Axis morale (as 90 le is a shell), -2 for fortifications, +2 for size (division against regiment), +2 for Rommel leading the attack.
Dice for the German is “52”: no casualties
Dice for the Allies is “15”: 20% losses.
Attack 2: Trento is attacking the 70th Infantry division and reduce one level of fortifications as well. The Trento losses 5*M13/40 tanks to anti-tank fire.
Trento attacks at 134 raw points (13), the 70th defends with 74 (7).
Dice for the Italian is “23”, 10% losses
Dice for the Allies is “21”, 15% losses plus captured (50%: 2*Inf + 2*25p)
Attack 3: The Brescia division is reducing one level of fortifications and does a probe instead of a full attack, losing in doing so 1*Inf point.
At that point, as for rules, the Axis player choose to continue playing. The 90 Le with Arko and Rommel get out fo the way, as the Italians do the same retreating one hexagone.
Taking the place of the 90 Le is the 15 Panzer division which was waiting just behind it.
15 Panzer attack head on the 32nd Army tank brigade with the 16th Infantry brigade. The 32nd Army is losing 5* Matildas after the initial loss of 3. One Infantry battalion is pinned with the loss of 1*Inf.
15 Panzer is attacking with 89 raw points (9 points) and Allies are defending with 36 raw points (4).
9 minus 4 = 5 -1 for Allies morale, +2 for double raw points, +2 for size (division against regiment) +2 German morale, -2 for fortifications “Overrun situation”
Dice for the German is “33”: no losses
Dice for the Allies is “12”: 40% losses plus 1 Hex retreat -staying, so 50% casualties-, plus captured (75%: 1* 2p, 2* VI light, 1* Matilda, 5* Inf). The Allies choose to remain on site as a retreat would have jammed totally Tobruk and deny any more retreat in the city plus the fact that doing so would have permitted 15 Panzer to enter the fortications system. 32nd Army Tank brigade and 16th Infantry brigade are now both “shell” as are every battalions composing these units.
57/3:
Initiative si to the Allies by scenario rules and move 1st.
Weather is: Sandstorm on map C and D. So no air movement except transfers and readying again aircrafts.
The Allies transfers Hu II B's and Maryland to Malta to better reco naval lanes and better protect the island.
The sandstorm is heavily impeding movement, so the Allies is just trying to regroup some very dispersed units.
The Axis is moving the 21st Panzer division to outside Bardia and create on German battlegroup with all present troops there and the same is done with the Italians. Italians can only have two such groups. The Germans, how many they want. The Savona division is slowly coming back to Bardia trying not to be crushed by the Allies, thanks to the sandstorm. Trieste division is regrouping to work as a division.
At Tobruk, the Brescia, Trento, Bologna divisions and the 90 Le plus Arko Arty regiment are attacking.
All Arty regiments are used to reduced allied fortifications one level.
On the Eastern approach, the 16th Infantry brigade and the 32nd Army tank brigade stand together.
In the center, the 70th Infantry division is on guard but with only one infantry brigade and all possible Arty units. On the Western approach, the Polish brigade stand with the 23rd Infantry brigade.
Attack 1: After reducing one level of fortifications on the Eastern approach, 90 Le division and Bologna division attack the Allies. One English battalion is pinned with a 1 loss as well.
Allies defend with 72 raw points (7) and Axis with 119 raw points (12)
12 minus 7 = 5 -1 Allies morale, -1 Axis morale (as 90 le is a shell), -2 for fortifications, +2 for size (division against regiment), +2 for Rommel leading the attack.
Dice for the German is “52”: no casualties
Dice for the Allies is “15”: 20% losses.
Attack 2: Trento is attacking the 70th Infantry division and reduce one level of fortifications as well. The Trento losses 5*M13/40 tanks to anti-tank fire.
Trento attacks at 134 raw points (13), the 70th defends with 74 (7).
Dice for the Italian is “23”, 10% losses
Dice for the Allies is “21”, 15% losses plus captured (50%: 2*Inf + 2*25p)
Attack 3: The Brescia division is reducing one level of fortifications and does a probe instead of a full attack, losing in doing so 1*Inf point.
At that point, as for rules, the Axis player choose to continue playing. The 90 Le with Arko and Rommel get out fo the way, as the Italians do the same retreating one hexagone.
Taking the place of the 90 Le is the 15 Panzer division which was waiting just behind it.
15 Panzer attack head on the 32nd Army tank brigade with the 16th Infantry brigade. The 32nd Army is losing 5* Matildas after the initial loss of 3. One Infantry battalion is pinned with the loss of 1*Inf.
15 Panzer is attacking with 89 raw points (9 points) and Allies are defending with 36 raw points (4).
9 minus 4 = 5 -1 for Allies morale, +2 for double raw points, +2 for size (division against regiment) +2 German morale, -2 for fortifications “Overrun situation”
Dice for the German is “33”: no losses
Dice for the Allies is “12”: 40% losses plus 1 Hex retreat -staying, so 50% casualties-, plus captured (75%: 1* 2p, 2* VI light, 1* Matilda, 5* Inf). The Allies choose to remain on site as a retreat would have jammed totally Tobruk and deny any more retreat in the city plus the fact that doing so would have permitted 15 Panzer to enter the fortications system. 32nd Army Tank brigade and 16th Infantry brigade are now both “shell” as are every battalions composing these units.