Enter Rommel

[Dog Soldier]

German turn six.
16:00 PM March 31, 1941
Normal Conditions
Visibility 3km.




Fifth Light Division
General Striech was as frustrated as Major Dossler. No progress at all. The assaults cause nothing but minor casualties. Splitting the Axis command may have been a mistake. Dossler just can not make any progress forward in the narrow confines.


Axis positions along the coast on turn six.

Infantry Regiment 200
While the British armored cars at Bir es Suera died well, the remainder of the regiment prepared to close on Bir el Ginn. Can they take the objective? Gruber’s scout cars maybe walking into a trap, but they found a hole in the British screen and surrounded the enemy on the eastern flank of the objective. The assault soon to follow would decide the outcome.


Axis positions east of the marshes on turn six.

Dog Soldier’s notes
It will now come down to the last turn attack on the 25 point objective at Bir el Ginn. If I can take it, I will have a draw. I have chosen to isolate as many British units as possible while leaving them a chance to escape north if they choose. If they try to escape, then the objective will fall easily and I can press the retreating units and destroy them for more victory points. In any case many of the British will be one more morale level lower from isolation next turn.
The attack up the coast ran out of gas with the disruption of the MG battalion. The British are not being fancy, They stuffed the hexes between the Germans and the 40 point objective with units. It may be impossible to plough through them all in only one turn. I am hoarding the air strikes for this final turn.
The only good thing, is the lack of British counter attack potential.