The 4th Armoured Brigade, probing northeast of Gabr Saleh, was driving a German recon unit before it. The Afrika Korps at last reacted, quickly forming several units of the 21st Panzer Division into Kampfgruppe Stephan which set out to investigate the reports of the British tanks. The Kampfgruppe located the tail-end regiment of the 4th’s and attacked. Cries for help brought the 5th RTR which arrived before dark and immediately counterattacked. . .
Attacker: British (5th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment)
Defender: German (Panzer Regiment 5)
6 turns
Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:0.0 D:0.0
AFVs: A:12
Stuart I(a) x 12
AFVs: D:9
PzKpfw IVE x 2 PzKpfw IIIH x 2 PzKpfw IIIG x 3 PzKpfw IIF x 2
Guns: A:0 D:0
Misc Rules:
Simultaneous setup. Late Afternoon Sun Blindness (F11.612)
This was definitely a fun one! A quick one, but a fun one. The Germans set up two mixed AFV groups close to the center of the set up area and the British broke into three even attack groups. The British were able to move around the late afternoon sun blindness to land some excellent shots on the German AFVs. One German AFV attack group had two MA malf (the PzIV with a 8-1 leader a Pz III) in the same defensive fire turn. This coupled with some poor use of motion on the other side of the board led a game that was trading fairly evenly at the start into a very quick surround of the Germans by the British AFVs and 40 DVPs earned at turn 2. Brandon was rolling lights out and I was honestly rolling terribly. This is definitely a good scenario if you just love AFVs!
2024-02-19
(A) Rob Tyson
vs
Brian Sielski
German win
2023-06-04
(D) Don Nordloff
vs
Don Petros
British win
Started out as a long rang duel. Then after the field was thinned on both sides we ended up swirling around, four of the remaining six tanks has malfed MA. German lost a certain victory earlier by rolling a dud on a side shot. Mark IV with HEAT was a highlight. Good introductory scenario for DTO
2023-03-25
(D) Nate Gregg
vs
Chris Gregg
British win
I intensive fired too much too early.
2023-03-19
(A) Jonathan Plott
vs
Steve B
Draw
2022-07-26
(D) Stephen dedier
vs
Jim Holt
German win
British pushed hard on the German right flank with units that entered on that board and other units moving down the edge of the bord toward the flank or pulling in and stopping for shots.
German managed on only shock 1 tank in the British 1 but knocked out 3 Honey's in German 1.
Start of British 2 saw them take out 2 PzIII including the 9-1 leader in prep and then Jim gambled that he could swarm the Germans and take out 2-3 more tanks.
British took out 1 PzIV but the Germans went on a run of 5's and using intensive fire managed to take out 5 Honey's and shock a 6th in the swarm while losing another tank.
Opening of German 2 saw the stunned Honey go to UK and then the Germans killed it in Prep to reach needed victory points
The German dice got very hot to get the quick victory but the lure of the quick win for the British pushed Jim to risk it all in the turn.
Fun scenario with a number of play options.
2021-08-16
(A) David Garvin
vs
Alain Chabot
British win
2020-12-02
(A) rene cote
vs
mrosberg
German win
Played this 3 times in a row trying different approach with British. All three times ended in almost total annihilation of British force by end of turn 2( trying to make it behind the Germans). With red to hit and sun blindness, the Brits have a tough go.
2020-11-30
(D) rene cote
vs
Mrosberg
German win
2018-12-19
(A) Jonathan Kapleau
vs
Holland, Donald
British win
2018-11-17
(D) Jonathan Kapleau
vs
Duenskie, Ron
British win
2017-12-30
(D) David Garvin
vs
John Stadick
British win
I malf'd a total of 4 AFV main guns in this one after I started out hot, eliminating 3 of his Stuarts and immobilizing another. He went for an ESB and of course stopped his tank. Victory was mine! Then my guns all jammed. Ha!
But John was skilful and got in behind those tanks (which I had put into motion in order to keep them alive long enough to fix their guns, or so I hoped) and of course the sun blinded me. My last survivor was the 9-1 AFV leader who went down in a blaze of glory. Great game by John!
2017-12-27
(A) David Garvin
vs
Ian Tuten
British win
Given the sun blindness, I went for both flanks. Initial gunnery by the Germans was both accurate and deadly. I tossed some SD to try to obscure his shots and that combined with my burning Stuarts was enough to keep me alive.
In his subsequent volley, I was able to survive with enough tanks to press the attack and ended up starting to take a toll on his armor.
In the end, I was able to push through and get the Casualty DVPs by turn 3 to secure the victory.
2017-10-30
(D) Dwayne Duval
vs
Kevin Duval
British win
2017-10-30
(A) Kevin Duval
vs
Dwayne Duval
British win
Used British balance.
2017-10-07
(D) Kermit Mullins
vs
Dan Best
British win
Nice change of pace scenario with just tanks in a straight up gunfight. Dan's Stuarts came hard in a schwerpunkt towards the German left. The Germans were strung out in a long line across the map. Initially, my Germans took the early lead by taking out 5 of the Stuarts, but once the Stuarts got in close, it was curtains for the Afrika Korps. Great win for Dan!
2017-10-07
(A) Dan Best
vs
Kermit Mullins
British win
2017-05-16
(D) Bill Brodie
vs
Steve Bond
German win
British drove into a hail of accurate fire. While he did bounce back and take out a few panzers, the initial losses made it impossible for him to win the gun battle.
2016-09-19
(A) Paolo Cariolato
vs
Sebastiano Caltabiano
German win
As I suspected the scenario is a dicey affair weighted towards the German (55-60% I think).
As British I was able to hit a single german AFV once in two turns despite point blank fire and didn't do any harm. In response I got 8 stuarts destroyed by 3 snakes, and 8 other hit (yes there there were 1 miss, 2 shocks and 8 killed AFV).
In 1 and half turn it was all over. Won't play it again, it's far worse than I expected.
2016-08-08
(A) Jeff Hew
vs
Jon Halfin
British win
2015-11-19
(A) Richard Carter
vs
Bob Devereaux
German win
I was able to get behind the German line but it was not enough. We lost 11/12 stuarts before we realized the German's had past the automatic victory part.
2015-10-10
(D) Will Willow
vs
J. Shields
British win
ASLOK
2015-08-18
(A) Seumas Hoskins
vs
British win
2014-01-04
(A) Martí Cabré
vs
Eloi Soler
British win
The Sun blindness offsets your Stuarts so first thing to do is put your back on the Sun. I divided the Stuarts in three groups: one in the center prep firing to keep the Germans busy and one in each wing to try a double envelopment. My right wing was totally destroyed in the first shots, as well as some of my center. But my left managed to place south of the Germans and started pounding them. Also, some Germans moved forward to offset the short barrels and they also were wrecked. Automatic British victory with enough DCVP.
2013-11-26
(A) James Lowry
vs
Patch Bunny
German win
2013-10-11
(A) Don Lazov
vs
Jim Wiseman
British win
2012-09-08
(A) Timothy Burke
vs
Craig Kimerer
British win
British 37LL TK of 11 was deadly
2011-11-18
(D) Paul Jones
vs
Eremite
German win
Panzers simply blew the Stuarts away as they approached through the desert.
2011-03-05
(D) Shane Pask
vs
German win
Easy German win even with me forgetting the late sun penalty on the poms.
2010-06-18
(A) nathan wegener
vs
Peter W
German win
Opponent rolled ROF more often than not. Didn't survive past turn 3.
2009-07-11
(A) Jonathan Davis
vs
Chuck Payne
German win
On turn one, in 12 rolls, only one tank could find their sD to shoot. That spelled doom as his DFPh took out 3 tanks and his PFPh took out 4 more.