Rommel's First Offensive - solo AAR

[zovs66]

Changing directions a bit, I startup War on the Southern Front from the Strategic War series and select the scenario entitled #230: Rommel's First Offensive.

So in this solo AAR I'll take the Axis and be playing against the Allied AI.

This scenario is 14 turns long covering the time period of 24 March to 25 April 1941.

This is from the scenario description:

"North Africa, March 24th 1941: Rommel had arrived in Tripoli mid February, by mid March he assessed that the British were not going to attack, indeed they were using troops from North Africa to bolster the defence of Greece. Accordingly, he attacked using 5th Light Division with two Italian divisions. Meeting little opposition they swiftly moved east along three axes of advance, arriving piecemeal at Tobruk on April 10th. The British had reinforced Tobruk with the 7th Australian Division which grimly held the port. Rommel bypassed Tobruk and finally ran out of steam after taking the Halfaya Pass at Buq-Buq on April 25th."

Here you can see the starting map zoomed out.


I now added in the jump map and all the yellow squares on the jump map are objective or VP hexes/locations.


Here is the Victory Dialog showing how many objectives I need to take.


As you can see the first objective is Msus and in the lead I have the 5th Light Panzer Division along with the Italian 7th Bersaglieri Regiment, VII Armored Battalion, 132nd Armored Division and elements of the HQ DAK and X Italian Corps.