It's a Long Way to Tipperary Tournament - Round 3 - S43 DIME Beach

[Steel God]

Situation at the end of Turn 4 – 0800 July 10th 1943

So far so good, and this is where it will start to get interesting as I believe the Axis defenders will start to wake up and head towards the beaches.  Their forces have mobility over me so can choose the direction they want to come at me.  Will he divide his efforts (unlikely in my opinion) or mass the HG PzD and 4th Livorno in a drive for the beach?  My money is on the latter.  I’ve managed to isolate 4 of the beach detachments plus their HQ and could possibly bag 3 others plus their artillery in the next turn, all in all they would be welcome points and help offset the para losses I suffered on the opening drop.  I’m keeping my ships offshore because I don’t want Brian to get a counter battery spot on them and use his Stukas to pick up hefty VP loads sinking ships.  If he has recon planes, I suspect he’ll use them to try and spot those to do exactly that, so I’m stacking the DDs with the CLs for some AA cover, because the AA guns on these ships are pathetic (zero on the CLs and only 2/1 on the DDs).  Para blocking detachments are not all in place, most are, but none of them will last more than a turn if he doesn’t want them to.