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

[Steel God]

Situation at the end of Turn 14 – 0800 July 11th 1943

Brain did not push very hard, he moved along my line taking shots that offered advantageous exchange rates, and did not press east of the Acale River either.  Also, he blew up the remaining bridge over the Gela River, which all says to me that he’s playing for a Draw, or should I say, hoping to get enough attrition value out of losses to steal a Minor win.  I haven’t done the math to be sure, but I don’t think he can get a Major win in that fashion, but he may not care.  You get two old dogs like us to fight, and we play the margins and try not to do anything stupid.  The bizarre part about his turn results are all the units he fired upon rallied and the units he ignored remained disrupted, go figure.

Re-positioned units on the left of my line, brought the 18th Regiment from the 1st ID online and stabilized the line held by the 45th ID on my center, or my right as far as the Acale River line is concerned, since east of the Acale may become a side show.  Assaulted his Tigers, which I knew to be of weaker morale than the rest of the Nazi fanatics and got a lucky result pushing him back, depending on what he does next turn I may be able to make some progress on the Livorno Division.    Unfortunately, I neglected to save a file or take a screen-capture, so I have no picture for this turn.