Enter Rommel

[Dog Soldier]

Epilogue




The move to the south was a good move. I was overly concerned with the idea of British armored cars striking my troops in travel mode and then using their high movement points, running just out of LOS. I would never have enough units to go chasing them down. I thought these “Desert Rats” could be directing air strikes at my columns. It appears my fears were unjustified. Foul was purely defensive the entire game. I should have left the infantry in travel mode and rode hard and fast around the southeast “corner” of the marshes. This would have placed Foul on the horns of a dilemma. He would have had to choose how much force to send south to meet the threat at the risk of weakening the defense along the coast road. I think in any case the Germans have to at least feint this direction and hope to draw off some of the British defense along the coast. An option to this would be to remove the mines along the track leading into the marshes at the center of the map. An attack up this track could easily push the armored cars out of any blocking position. From such a central position the Germans could then strike at the 25 point victory hex at Bir el Ginn or strike north into the short two hex neck of the marshes at (33,11) and (34,11). In any case a drive around the marshes as I did should only reveal as few units as necessary to take the 10 victory point southern most objective, while keeping the rest of the force hidden. In this way the British will not be sure if this is a real drive or just a feint.


Final positions after the end of the game.

Foul made very good use of the terrain along the narrow coast road to hold the Germans short of the 40 point victory hex. He played a very good game as an example of a delaying action in Tobruk 41.