The Taking of Takrouna DTO (id:#65685)
See Also: The Taking of Takrouna by Multi-Man Publishing
Designer: Unknown
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Balance:
New ZealandItalian
57.246376811594%

Overview:

As part of 8th Army’s first attempt to crack the Enfidaville Line, the 5th New Zealand Brigade was ordered to capture the key observation point of Takrouna – a small village crowned by a group of tightly clustered buildings surrounded by cliffs, all atop a 600 ft. hill defended by troops of the 101st “Trieste” Motorized Division. The New Zealanders made a night attack to envelop the hill on both sides, but only on the eastern side did they gain much ground. There, after suffering heavy casualties from vicious defensive fire, elements of the 28th (Maori) Battalion reached the foot of the hill at dawn. The capture of Takrouna seemed impossible, but the Maoris regrouped and, with boundless determination, began working their way up the slopes of the rugged, heavily defended feature.
Attacker: New Zealand (28th (Maroi) New Zealand Brigade)
Defender: Italian (1º Battaglione, 66º Reggimento Fanteria)  
8 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:7.0 D:13.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0
OML 2-in. Mortar x 2
D:0
Mortaio da 45 Brixia x 2

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Moderate Dust, Ov1. Crags in AA4 and BB4 represent Single Story Buildings
Map Board(s): 25
Overlays: x1
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DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2022-11-14(A) Owen Edwards vs Italian winHalf-mapper with the objective hex at the northern end, but this is a board-spanning game, because the Maoris have to find a viable approach route or two, and those may well include entry at the south-eastern end. In this game the Kiwis were basically a turn short due to the Cliffs round X1 - they could get adjacent but not Climb that turn. This might just sound like slow play, but was really the recovery from an early infiltration round the northern end by the Hero and 1.5 squads leading to that force being largely wiped out, taking only an HS and an SW with them. (That may have been a bad play of course, but was the result of a low odds combo of IFT and MC.)

The Maoris then focused on breaking up the central and southern Italian "ridge guards" , and developed a solid attacking position, slowly breaking more and more Italians, causing surrenders and flight. (The absolute casualties ended up in NZ favour, though the percentage ratio was worse.) The final decider was a pretty low odds Final Fire on a moving squad, leading to a KIA - a risk NZ needed to take at that point due to time running out. That was T7, and meant the final southern thrust was too slow (the northern thrust by this point consisting of a half-squad, albeit one ending up stealing Italian SWs and getting up to the Cliff).

Interesting, but a bit of a grind.
2022-07-31(A) nathan wegener vs Mark DeVries New Zealand winWent straight up the side which led to an Epic exchange of gunfire on the hill. Thanks to the dust and poorly made Italian equipment nothing happened several times. Kiwis slowly pushed back the Italians. 10-2 was a rally machine but didnt know how to fight and died in a equal odds CC counterattack. Lost a hero as well but eventually got the 9-1 and 2 squad+LMG in position. With a couple of good rolls broke 6 Italian squads to sieze the hill in turn 6.
2013-11-29(A) Martí Cabré vs In progressDuplicate for Hollow Legions 3rd edition
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owenedwards Added a playing2022-11-19 00:19:19
owenedwards Rated the scenario2022-11-13 22:29:48
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esparver73 Added a playing2022-02-26 23:12:15
Hutch Modified the Unit Elements2021-12-28 20:04:15
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Estimated Play time: 3.7 hours
Recorded Games: 2
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ROAR Data: (as of November 2021)
The Taking of Takrouna
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[A] Italian 78
[D] British 58
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