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Played over two session this less than thrilling scenario has very highly motivated Italian Black shirts defending two small hills. The Italian's were commanded by the redoubtable Treadhead himself.
The Indian force split into three groups, with the armour hanging back to avoid the Navel guns mounted on truck on the summit of the smaller hill. The other two Commonwealth groups advanced to contact relatively easily and in fact pushed the Italian fascists of most of the first hill, the other group just covering the Italian second hill. At the same time the hill was taken the Italian commander was captured however this loss was not even noticed by the brave Italian who counter attacked fiercely, resulting in loss from both sides. It was obvious to the pipe smoking Commonwealth commanding officer that the chances of taking both hill and NOT losing 8 steps was slim. A well organized withdrawal took place and has both sides withdrew the Italian commander very generously offered a draw.
The issue with this scenario it is so hard to attack 9 morale troops, you need to get X result has if supported offices M/M1 result will usually have no effect. Coupled with VC limiting the Indian player to only 7 losses my advice to Commonwealth players is to not attack dig in and say come and have a go if you are hard enough. However we as always had a few laughs playing this one so have rated it a very generous Three.
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"my advice to Commonwealth players is to not attack dig in and say come and have a go"
This is an unfortunate pattern all too common in Desert Rats I'm afraid...
So true and so sad! Some emphasis on thoughtful scenario development & play testing would cure this problem at the manufacturer's level.