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

[Steel God]

Situation at the end of Turn 6 – 1200 July 10th 1943

Brian made short work of several of the Para Detachments, which cleared his way towards the beaches.  Another isolated at Ponte Olivo Airfield will get eliminated next turn but will at least slow him a little on his drive south.  

The beach is secured and consolidated, and the 45th and 1st IDs have linked up, the Para Detachments are falling back towards the Beaches, fulfilling their primary function of roadblocks if necessary but hopefully some will survive to be consolidated into a decent sized unit, as their assault values will be appreciated later.  The most vulnerable position right now is along the west bank of the Acale River, where the gap between the two infantry divisions is only lightly screened.  I have 4 units overdue for landing, and of course they’re all critically important, 3 armored units from 2nd AD, and the Mortar Battalion for 1st ID.  We finished off 3 isolated Italian Beach Detachments, and their Artillery unit, aside from the guns they weren’t worth much VP wise, but the score stands at 763, a Minor Victory technically, but includes 100VPs I don’t believe I’ll be able to hold till end game (the ones East of the Acale River), so in my mind we’re standing at a Draw.