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

[Steel God]

Situation at the end of Turn 13 – 0600 July 11th 1943

Relatively quiet night, some shuffling of troops along the main front and some shots fired.  His Tigers took 2 shots at my Shermans and killed 5 and disrupted the battalion, but they did their job and plugged the hole for a turn, time to re-shuffle everything.  With just 7 turns to go and the Allies still short critical items I don’t believe I have any time to switch from defense to offense.

Hurrah!  The HQ for the 2nd Armored CCB finally arrived, maybe they can get the armor to draw supply and rally and even get to use them before the end of the game.  The visibility jumped to 4km, and I think Brian wasn’t expecting that as he left units visible that he might not have otherwise done so; let’s see if I can turn them into some points.   Not bad, wiped out a German ATG unit, didn’t count but 15+ ATGs and 4 Italian Mortars.  Also knocked 20+ Grenadiers off a German infantry unit but the aircraft was Disrupted by AA otherwise it would have been better results against the T mode truck mounted unit.  Still, I’m happy with the results of the naval artillery and air power for a change.  Moved everyone around, continued to pull back east of the Acale River, still haven’t blown the bridge at Ponte Grillo, figure every turn he moves towards it from the east is a turn longer it takes those Grenadiers to reorient themselves.  Still waiting on rally rolls and resupply before I’m reasonably positioned to try and push north, but the sand is draining out of the hourglass.