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

[Steel God]

Situation at the end of Turn 10  – 2000 July 10th 1943

My word – Brian is just assaulting his happy ass off.  He literally used ½ of the Livorno Division to shoot at one isolated Battalion, and the other half to assault it and he walloped the Battalion for 90 casualties.  Meanwhile his Panzers are all in big stacks and just taking huge bites out of my infantry battalions.  I see a future that I don’t like.  Sure wish I could get a single artillery battalion to set up, or some air cover, - lol – or the rest of my damned troops.  This is brutal sitting here being a pinata.  

Still consolidating and trying to stabilize this beachhead.  The battalion of the 1st ID being pressed by Livorno has been reinforced with another battalion, equaling the odds somewhat; should at least discourage reckless assaults.  Assaulted the Italian armor supporting Livorno’s attack and destroyed 2 tanks, should at least force him to provide escorts for his tanks.  The only weakness I can see in the push to the beach is that almost all of the high quality German infantry he has is east of the Acale River and now that almost all of the 45th ID is on board (some division artillery comes in tomorrow at 1000 (scheduled anyway) the pull back across the Acale and destruction of the bridges is not too far away.  With any luck most of the German Infantry will be on vacation the second half of the battle.  Going to delay blowing the bridge at Ponte Drillo as long as possible so he doesn’t pick up on what I’m going to do there.  Still, nothing to be too happy about since the score stands at 740 and he has 75VPs and possibly as many as 125VPs east of the Acale that he can pick up, making the real score 615 – so pre-invasion plan not working so far.  Hopefully I can wear the Italians down and push north along the Gela River.