FLG Wrote:Volcano Man Wrote:Without this, the desert battles turn into a mass of intermixing nonsense.
I'm no expert but considering such things as the Cauldron battle, weren't many of the open desert battles "a mass of intermixing nonsense".
Yes, they were. That is why the Brits resorted to brigade boxes and at night the both sides learned to laerger (sp) for all around defense.The Italian retreat of 1940 and Axis/Allied retreats of 41 & 42 were a 'mass of intermixing nonsense'. That sounds like a Monty term:cool: He was always liking a 'tidy' battle. But the battles were seldom tidy but more often confused melees with one side or the other trying to outflank the other. But to each his own. If people want to make the desert war play like the bigger battles of the Eastern/West Fronts, that's up to them.