SITREP BATTLE # 2.
Well battle 2 saw me going into a meeting engagement with really enough force to be defending. However orders are orders and fortified with plenty of Sicilian Wine my troops attempted to deny Col Cross and his gallant crew at least a total victory.
The carnage was brutal for both sides. The RAF Jabos did a fair job certainly far better than my Stuka G2's who seemed to have no idea at times what an Allied tank looked like. I was forced to buy troops over arty and was badly mauled by Col Cross's 5.5 Guns, although an infiltration party did manage to disrupt a 25pdr battery. My panzers seemed to be from the gang who couldn't shoot straight and were out shot by the Colonel’s Cromwell's. Many fire fires and somewhat over an hour later, I still held a few objectives but the day went the Cross's Crusaders. The cost for a few dusty crossroads and one end of a bridge was for me too many dead and too few holding out. Cross's men also paid heavily at something like 50% causalities, maybe he will tell the story.
We are about the bash this out again on the "Boot" so stay tuned.
