Rommel Breakthrough 8th Army v Afrika Corps

As Mark had traveled down from Nottingham to play we thought we should make the most of the day and played a second game, this time with Rommel. Mark chose to attack with the Afrika Corps and we went for the Breakthrough scenario.

The British got very few terrain choices resulting in a fairly open field with two of the German objectives being in the open and two in cover:

The German's quickly capture the furthest forward objective in the open that the British chose not to defend but were slow to develop their attack on the other objectives:

The British repulse the various German attacks without much danger, aided by a raid on the German lines of communication by a small force of Crusader tanks which drew off some of the German force to deal with them:

Further German attacks fail to make any impression on the British defenders:

The British take some damage but are replaced by fresh reserves:

The slow pace of the German attacks has whittled away the day and with night about to fall the Germans have failed to break through the British lines:

This was only Mark's second Rommel game after a long break and it really showed how Rommel has a steep learning curve.

Having played so many games against Andy I think I now have a good idea of how to achieve your objectives in Rommel and how to make the best use of your forces. Mark's attack developed too slowly and concentrated on an objective on a hill that would be hard to capture especially as the Afrika Corps list we used was weighted more towards armor than infantry.

We then played again with the same forces and scenario, having learned some lessons from the first game the Afrika Corps did much better, managing to capture a second objective for a while though losing it to a British counter-attack before time ran out. I've not used the 3mm WW2 armies for a while and it was nice to get them into action again.