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Corsi’s Counter-Charge Africa Orientale Italiana #42 |
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| (Attacker) Italy | vs |
Britain
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India (Defender) |
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| Overall Rating, 2 votes |
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4
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| Scenario Rank: --- of 1093 |
| Parent Game | Africa Orientale Italiana |
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| Historicity | Historical |
| Date | 1941-02-06 |
| Start Time | 09:00 |
| Turn Count | 30 |
| Visibility | Day |
| Counters | 122 |
| Net Morale | 0 |
| Net Initiative | 1 |
| Maps | 4: 84, 85, 86, 90 |
| Layout Dimensions | 86 x 56 cm 34 x 22 in |
| Play Bounty | 191 |
| AAR Bounty | 168 |
| Total Plays | 2 |
| Total AARs | 1 |
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| Hill Control |
| Inflict Enemy Casualties |
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| Anti-infantry Wire |
| Entrenchments |
| Off-board Artillery |
| Reinforcements |
| Smoke |
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| Joint Forces Battle |
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| Africa Orientale Italiana | Base Game |
| Introduction |
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Col. Corso Corsi of the 11th Grenadier Regiment, placed in charge of the defenses on either side of the Dongolaas, had the Bersaglieri Battalion of his own regiment plus a pair of colonial battalions on Mount Sanchil. Though outnumbered by the British and Indians on Cameron Ridge, he led his men forward in a determined effort to throw them off the high ground. |
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The Italians surged across the gap between Monte Sanchil and Cameron Ridge, screaming their “Savoia!” battle cry and pressing the British and Indians hard in hand-to-hand combat. Corsi hoped to keep his enemies occupied long enough for the colonial cavalry to work its way around the Rajputs’ position and unravel their defenses, but the Indian lines held thanks to timely intervention by their own reinforcements. |
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| 1 Errata Item | |
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Two British infantry have their full strengths printed on the back. They should both be "2-3" when reduced. (Shad
on 2010 Dec 15)
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| Africa Orientale Italiana #42 - Corsi’s Counter-Charge | ||||||||||||
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Control of the 40m (5 VPs) & 60m (10 VPs) hill hexes on maps 84-86 are the primary objectives, the Indian-British forces are trying to defend those hexes while they wait for reinforcements. The Bersaglieri and their native allies attacked the Indian forces on map 84, since that map had the majority of VPs. Fighting was heavy with the Bersaglieri clearing one Indian strong point after another, it helped that Italian cavalry arrived from the north map edge on turn 6. A smaller force of Italian native troops attacked the lone British company atop the northern most ridge on map 86, even though the British were outnumbered 2-1 they held their own inflicting heavy casualties on the native troops. On turn 12 the Indian reinforcements arrived, they headed north, gathering up the British forces looking to take back the hills on map 84. Fighting was heavy but the Bersaglieri were not strong enough to hold back this combined force, even a spoiling attack with their cavalry could not slow the Indians-British forces down, who captured enough hill hexes and caused more step losses to the Italians securing the win. |
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