Ok cool. This concludes what I think is probably the first highlight of the campaign: The battle of Bir Hakeim. I think it went well.
Luckily I had already prepared the next scenario before the long hiatus, so I can post it immediately.
First of all: You can refresh and upgrade your force completely, cause we are making another time jump to October 1942, to the battle of El Alamein.
This scenario will be a bit more experimental and I hope it works well. You need to follow the instructions quite carefully for it to work! Also a little reminder that what you can see at the end of a scenario does not necessarily reflect what will be there next time (otherwise you could get spoiled). This is especially important in this one for reasons you will see.
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After our ragtag group of survivors reached allied lines, we retreated. For weeks we moved east, into Egypt. There we were refreshed by reinforcements from England, consisting of French refugees and former Vichy soldiers from Syria. In the beginning of October we went into the line again at a place called El Alamein.
Here the Germans had been stopped in the summer, the battle ending in a stalemate. The trench warfare, characterised by nightly patrols and artillery duels, will soon end, as we prepare for a major offensive to push Rommel out of Africa once and for all.
It is 2 days before the big push and we think it is time for a bit of daring... patrols have identified a weak point in the line, where the Italian paratroopers facing us are not as diligent and well deployed as usual. A surprise attack at night might just break through and allow us to reach some juicy objectives directly behind the Italian lines...
- Deploy your forces in your trenches
- With the exception of your raiding force (more on that later), none of your infantry may move more than 2 hexes during the battle
- Fuel and artillery ammunition is being set aside for the offensive, so you may not use your artillery or vehicles
- Create a raiding force from your core force, consisting off:
- an infantry platoon
- an engineer squad
- heavy support weapons (up to 1 MG, mortar, antitank team)
- non motorized scouts and snipers from your recon unit
- Deploy this force in the indicated area
- Use this force to infiltrate behind Italian lines and hit any or all of the following objectives:
- an only lightly guarded command post
- a German bunker housing a liason officer
- a fuel dump that has not yet been distributed behind the lines
- After you have achieved what you set out to do, retreat the surviving units back to their starting positions
- If you feel that resistance is too strong, retreat
- You will not be able to recoup losses before the big offensive
If you fail to destroy any objective, the next battle will proceed normally. However, each objective you manage to destroy will give you a bonus in the next scenario.
- If you destroy the command post, you will capture papers and Italian officers: The position of all Italian strong points, minefields, artillery position and reserve positions will be marked on the map
- If you destroy the German liason officer, the Italians will not be supported by German planes or tank reinforcements
- If you destroy the fuel dump, all Italian vehicles will be immobilized
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As you can see, quite complicated, but I hope it will work... if you have any questions, post them before starting.