#00 Getting Started - "Running Gunfight" (30 March 1941) - PzC 04 Tobruk '41

South of Mersa el Brega, 30 March 1941: After the British victory over a much larger Italian Army in Libya, Churchill, distracted by events in the Balkans, gutted the Army occupying Cyrenaica for the ill-fated operation to rescue Greece. It was at that time Rommel arrived in North Africa with his small force that was to become the Afrika Korps. They struck first at El Agheila, on March 24th, but found it empty as the British had withdrawn in the face of their advance. For two days action was halted as a fierce Khamsin wind blew. When the advance began again, the Germans did not know where the Allies were, or when they would stand and fight. What followed was a series of small scale actions, where surprise ambushes were set behind whatever cover could be found, followed by running gun battles where the survivors scurried at top speed to another part of the desert. *Designers Note: This scenario was created only for Human German play vs. an Allied AI Player with FOW ON.