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Scenario#: J047     Date: 2/8/1941     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya

The famed Desert Rats were on the move. Heading for the African coast through the Saleh/Beda Fomm area, they planned to set up ambush positions against the large Italian motorized columns retreating from Benghazi towards Tripoli. The 2nd Royal Tank…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #3
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Scenario#: 53     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Syracuse, Sicily

Under the codename Operation Ladbroke, the British 1st Airlanding Brigade was to capture the Ponte Grande bridge spanning the Anapo River in eastern Sicily to allow for a quick march on Syracuse by the 5th Infantry Division. 144 gliders set off from…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: A013     Date: 8/8/1943     Location: Cesaro, Sicily

At first light, 2nd Battalion of the 47th Infantry Regiment stepped off to seize the next group of hills and, if possible, the village of Cesaro itself. Pushing through the scrub and low hills northwest of Cesaro, Company A quickly reached the…

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Scenario#: A061     Date: 6/16/1940     Location: Nezvet Ghirba, Libya

On the afternoon of June 10th, Italy declared war upon France and England. At a single stroke, the fight had leapt beyond the confines of Europe to become a "world" conflict. On the 16th, two troops of B Squadron, 11th Hussars, were patrolling the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Annual 93b
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Scenario#: J162     Date: 7/10/1940     Location: Moyale, Kenya

By the end of June 1940, the garrison of Fort Harrington had received reliable reports that Italian reinforcements were entering the twin town of Moyale at the Abyssinian border. These included three Eritrean colonial battalions, a brigade of pack…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #11
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Scenario#: AP023     Date: 1/24/1943     Location: Arnautovo, Russia

Russian troops launched a surprise sortie against the village of Arnautovo which was held by the Italian Valchiese Battalion of the 6th Alpini Regiment and some divisional artillery. To add to the dismay of the Italian defenders, they were also beset…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: J163     Date: 3/29/1941     Location: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

The days of Africa Orientale Italiana were finally coming to a close in Abyssinia, as South African and Nigerian forces continued a now largely-unopposed advance to Addis Ababa. Italian colonial forces were deserting and surrendering en masse, in…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #11
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Scenario#: J164     Date: 3/29/1941     Location: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

The days of Africa Orientale Italiana were finally coming to a close in Abyssinia, as South African and Nigerian forces continued a now largely-unopposed advance to Addis Ababa. Italian colonial forces were deserting and surrendering en masse, in…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #11
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Scenario#: AP027     Date: 9/9/1943     Location: Magliana, Italy

After the Italians announced an armistice with the Allies, the Germans put into place plans to capture Rome and disarm the Italians. That evening, German paratroopers headed towards Rome, encountering resistance from the Granatieri di Sardegna…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: S009     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Avola, Sicily

Operation Husky got off to a terrible start as gale-force winds greeted the poorly-trained pilots flying in the paratroopers and glidermen of the British 1st Airborne Division and the American 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Instead of dropping…

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Scenario#: 19383     Date: 1/3/1941     Location: Bardia, Libya

After the fight and defeat at Sidi Barrani, the Italian divisions, under the command of General Bergonzoli, had fallen back to Bardia. After being fortified for years, the area around Bardia was well protected. The British General Mackay surrounded…

Memoir '44Battle Maps Series 2 - Through Jungle and Desert
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Scenario#: 10795     Date: 1/21/1941     Location: Agordat, Abyssinia

Young Italian cavalry officer, Amedeo Guillet was involved in the Abyssinia campaign in 1935. Seriously wounded, he received his first medals for Gallatry in the battle. Then in 1937, he participated in the Spanish civil war in the tanks unit …

Memoir '44Open de France 2013
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Scenario#: 13627     Date: 12/12/1940     Location: Himara, Albania

Italy declared war on Greece October 28th, 1940 but by December, Mussolini’s troops had stalled. Then the unthinkable happened: in November, the Greek Army launched a counter-offensive and drove the Italians out of Greece and back into Albania. On…

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Scenario#: 17194     Date: 11/2/1940     Location: Kalpaki, Greece

The Italian-Greek war began on the 28th of October 1940 in the morning by an Italian general offensive in Epire area. The execrable weather and the hard ground slowed quickly the advance of Italian troops. Moreover the Greek defenders, although …

Memoir '44Open de France 2016
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Scenario#: 22884     Date: 2/5/1941     Location: Keren, Ethiopia

At the start of the East African Campaign, British troops liberated the Sudanese border from the Italians and pushed them back into Eritrea. In February the Allies launched their offensive against the key town of Keren but met determined Resistance …

Memoir '44Remembrance Scenarios
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Scenario#: 23071     Date: 3/24/1941     Location: Keren, Ethiopia

After intense fighting, the British Commonwealth forces finally captured Fort Dologorodoc. On March 24th, the battle of Keren entered its final stage with a massive artillery bombardment and armor support as British Engineers worked to secure the…

Memoir '44Remembrance Scenarios
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Scenario#: 4178     Date: 6/16/1940     Location: Nezuet Ghirba, Egypt

Mussolini declared war on France and Britain on June 10, 1940. In Egypt, British frontier forces were immediately ordered to infiltrate the border and attack the Italian forts of Maddalena and Capuzzo. By June 14th, both outposts had fallen. Two …

Memoir '44Equipment Pack
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Scenario#: 1513     Date: 2/5/1941     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya

On February 4th O'Connor with armored cars leading the way followed by 4 Armd Bde, move out to trap the Italians. The going was bad and a fast-wheeled vanguard was dispatched under the command of Lt-Col Combe to set up …

Memoir '44Online - No Air Rules
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Scenario#: 3722     Date: 2/7/1941     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya

On February 4th, Major-General O'Connor, with armored cars leading the way followed by 4th Armored Brigade, moved out to trap the Italians. The going was tough and a fast-wheeled vanguard was dispatched under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Combe…

Memoir '44Air Pack
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Scenario#: D01     Date: 1941-02-06     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya

After the massive defeats at Sidi Barrani, Bardia, Tobruk, and Derna, the Italian Army could think of nothing but flight. However, as they raced along the Coastal Road back to Trípoli, they found the road blocked at Beda Fomm. The …

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Scenario#: 54     Date: 8/12/1941     Location: Yasnaya Polyana, Ukraine

In July 1941 Mussolini sent the 62,000-strong CSIR (Italian Expeditionary Corps) to the Eastern Front. Its three divisions and attached troops linked up with the Wehrmacht in Romania, where the corps vehicular transport was pooled in order to…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: G20     Date: 12/9/1940     Location: Bir Ebna, Egypt

Operation Compass, the codename for Wavell’s offensive against Italian-held Libya, was kicked off with several assaults on Italian frontier camps. These fortified camps were built to cover the approaches to the coastal road which the British advance…

Advanced Squad LeaderThe General #29.3
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Scenario#: 29     Date: December 9, 1940     Location: Bir Enba, Egypt

Operation Compass, the codename for Wavell’s offensive against Italian-held Libya, was kicked off with several assaults on Italian frontier camps. These camps were built to cover the approaches to the coastal road between Sidi Barrani and Bardia, and…

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: AP160     Date: 4/22/1941     Location: Tobruk, Libya SEIGE

The Australian commander of the Tobruk garrison, Major General Leslie Morshead, was not content to rest on the laurels of his Easter victory against Rommel's first assault on the fortress. ln response to a newspaper headline "Tobruk Can Take It." he…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #16 From The Land Down Under
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Scenario#: G38     Date: 12/20/1942     Location: Meshkov, Russia

The Italian 8th Army had been retreating since the prior morning in the face of the Russian winter offensive aimed at encircling and destroying Paulus’s 6th Army in Stalingrad. Charged with defending the flanks of the 6th Army, Germany’s brittle…

Advanced Squad LeaderThe General #31.4
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Scenario#: 58     Date: 2/7/1941     Location: Agedabia, Libya

"We Surrender" - In an attempt to halt the Italian 10th Army which was retreating south from Benghazi, Combeforce – a motor infantry battalion reinforced with artillery and armored cars – was dispatched ahead of the pursuing British 7th Armored…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 27     Date: February 7, 1941     Location: Sidi Saleh, Libya

In an attempt to halt the Italian 1oth Army which was retreating south from Benghazi, Combeforce - a motor infantry battalion reinforced with artillery and armored cars - was dispatched ahead of the pursuing British 7th Armoured Division. On 5 …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: S048     Date: 7/11/1943     Location: Gela, Sicily

The Rangers had taken Gela from the surprisingly resistant Italian Coastal troops. After assessing the situation, Col. Darby organized the remaining Rangers to defend the town from counterattack. And in fact the Italian high command had ordered a…

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Scenario#: AP016     Date: 7/21/1943     Location: Alimena, Sicily

While the Axis forces slowly fell back towards Messina, the Big Red One kept up the pressure through the difficult terrain of central Sicily. The opposing Italians were fighting on native soil now, but their leadership hadn’t improved. As Gruppo…

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Scenario#: ROMA1     Date: 11/2/1940     Location: Kalpaki, Greece

Italy's invasion of the Kingdom of Greece on 28 October initially resulted in an advance of several miles and the general withdrawal of light Greek forces at the border. Bad weather, poor roads, and general lack of infrastructure such as bridges held…

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Scenario#: 17150     Date: 11/27/1941     Location: Gondar, Abyssinia

In November 1941, during the last stage of the East Africa campaign, the British army attacked the mountainous area of Amhara defended by troops of Italian General Nasi. After the surrender of Uolchefit and Culquaber Pass garrisons, the Commonwealth…

Memoir '44Open de France 2016
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Scenario#: AP026     Date: 9/8/1943     Location: Mezzocamino, Italy

Much to the dismay of the Italians, on the afternoon of September 8, 1943, General Eisenhower made public the armistice between the Allies and the Italian government. The Italians had been playing a dangerous balancing act between the Germans and…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Action Pack #3 Few Returned
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Scenario#: 1289     Date: 11/6/1940     Location: Metemma, Ethiopia

Gallabat-Metemma was Britain's first land offensive of the East Africa campaign. On November 6th, 1940 Brigadier J.W. Slim led the British assault. Under his command were; the 10th Indian Brigade, 12 tanks from the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and some …

Memoir '44Online - No Air Rules
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Scenario#: 3704     Date: 11/6/1940     Location: Metemma, Ethiopia

Gallabat-Metemma was Britain's first land offensive of the East Africa campaign. On November 6th, 1940, Brigadier J.W. Slim led the British assault. Under his command were the 10th Indian Infantry Brigade, 12 tanks from the 4th Royal Tank Regiment…

Memoir '44Air Pack
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Scenario#: S031     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Station San Oliva, Sicily

The Americans on the left flank of the Sicily landings, codenamed Joss, were scheduled to land early in the morning near Licata. The Italian units manning the defenses, generally static Coastal Divisions, fully dominated the beach exits with machine…

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Scenario#: 17176     Date: 11/2/1941     Location: Gorlovka, Ukraine

In early November 1941, the Italian troops of the CSIR (Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia) had reached the Donbass. Regiments 79 and 80 of the Infantry Division Pasubio were ordered to capture the industrial city of Gorlovka. On …

Memoir '44Open de France 2016
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Scenario#: AD08     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Gela, Sicily

By dawn of D-Day, Force X consisting of the 1st and 4th Ranger Battalions along with attached combat engineers, were were fighting for possession of Gela. By 0830 hours they had taken the burning town, along with some 200 Italian prisoners, and were…

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Scenario#: 56     Date: 11/19/1941     Location: Bir el Gubi, Libya

The Italian 132nd “Ariete” Armored Division, positioned 37 miles south of Tobruk, received intelligence that an assault was imminent and prepared its defenses behind areas of low-lying ground turned boggy by heavy rains. Skillfully camouflaged, its…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 21     Date: November 19, 1941     Location: Bir El Gubi, Libya

On the second day of Operation Crusader, the southwest flank of the Axis front was occupied by the Italian Ariete Armored Division. Alerted that a British attack was imminent, they had prepared defenses behind areas of low-lying ground turned boggy …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: 17433     Date: 4-6-1941     Location: Fort Roupel, Greece

After another failed Italian offensive in Albania against Greece in March 1941 (Operation Primavera), The Greco-Italian War reached a stalemate. Germany had little choice but to come and assist its ally. On April 6th, German troops crossed the…

Memoir '44Remembrance Scenarios
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Scenario#: 4229     Date: 5/26/1942     Location: Gazala, Libya

In late 1941, the Eighth Army drove the Axis out of Cyrenaica but British lines got so stretched that, by January '42, Rommel was back on the offensive and pressing towards Tobruk. Concentrating their forces near Gazala, the British : …

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Scenario#: 15302     Date: 2/26/1943     Location: Zef Zilia, Tunisia

On the 26th of February 1943, German General Von Arnim ordered Operation Ochsenkopf (Ox head) versus the 5th British Corps. In the same time, Operation Ausladung was the advance of Manteuffel Division along the Mediterranean coast facing the French…

Memoir '44Open de France 2015
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Scenario#: J034     Date: 7/13/1941     Location: Ceyinje, Montenegro

On 13 July 1941, in Italian-occupied Montenegro, Montenegrin separatist Sekula Drljević proclaimed an Independent State of Montenegro under Italian protectorate, upon which a nationwide rebellion escalated raised by Partisans, Yugoslav Royal officers…

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Scenario#: J127     Date: 11/6/1940     Location: Tamanau Gap, Eritrea

As part of the British invasion of Eritrea, Colonel F.W. Messervy’s “Gazelle Force”, a motorized commando unit comprised of three machine gun companies, a filed gun battery and a mechanized cavalry unit, was established with the mission of creating…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #9
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Scenario#: A014     Date: 3/9/1941     Location: Scialesi, Albania

Mussolini's bid to dominate Greece had been a fiasco of the first magnitude; by mid-February 1941, the war which had begun in November amid much posturing had taken the lives of 500 Italian officers and over 5000 other ranks. The Greeks had gone on…

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Scenario#: J030     Date: 11/26/1941     Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya

Operation Crusader was boiling around the Sidi Rezeg area, and General Freyberg's New Zealand 6th Brigade was dangerously exposed. The Kiwis were perched on the Sidi Rezeg ridge and airfield, sandwiched between the German 155th Infantry Regiment on…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL Journal #2
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Scenario#: S047     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Gela, Sicily

The small city and port of Gela was at the center of the American landing beaches and therefore was an important target. Colonel William Darby and his famous Rangers were to take the town during the landings. It was a difficult task, but one that the…

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Scenario#: 10913     Date: 12/16/1942     Location: Mamon, Russia

Operation Uranus was a complete success for the Soviets, trapping the German 6th Arrny and 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad. To exploit this victory, the Soviet general staff planned a winter campaign. Soviet forces consolidated their positions around…

Memoir '44Equipment Pack Bonus
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Scenario#: S010     Date: 11/3/1940     Location: Sarandoporo, Greece

Determined to present Hitler with a fait accompli in the Balkans, Mussolini launched another ill-advised, ill-planned and ill-informed campaign, this time from Albania into the mountains of Epirus, Pindus, and Macedonia, just in time for winter. The…

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Scenario#: 90     Date: 11/17/1940     Location: Koritsa, Greece

The Italian Army erupted across the Greek border in an attempt to add Greece to the New Roman Empire and show Hitler that Italy, too, could launch a blitzkrieg attack. Mussolini’s tactically-bankrupt command had not anticipated the tenacity of the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 11 - Doomed Battalions
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