Author	Blackcloud6
Method	Solo
Victor	Italy
Play Date	2020-08-21
Language	English
Scenario	DeRa010

And interesting albeit one-sided scenario. This battle was one of the high points of the Italian Army in WWII where they soundly defeated the British. The scenario plays that out.

The brits attacked with one group on the their left flank to hit the main Italian defense while the right flank group had the mission to push back the Italian tank screen and kill or push away the deadly MILMART naval gun portees.

The right flank Crusaders did their job but took heavy casualties from the naval guns. The remainders of this force then came over to support the main attack.

The main effort hit the Italian tank line and defeated the M13/40s after a few turns of battle. The consolidated west of the Bersaglieri positions. Once all together, this force moved around the flank to the rear of the defense and attacked. They had no success getting into the positions with a pure tank force. Whenever they assaulted, the Bersaglieri counterassaulted and demoralized or killed the attackers. By 1630 hours it was apparent that British were not going to gain any position and were about to lose the entire force, so they withdrew.

I gave this a four rating becasue it is an interesting scenario to see how a pure tank force is inadequate to take a dug-in position. Probably it is best to play solo.