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Ras El Madauar Scenario#: 20913 Date: 5/1/1941 Location: Tobruk, Libya Germans passed Tobruk during their advance and the Australian 9th division was left behind to defend the city and it's defensive perimeter. As Rommel is in desperate need to shorten it's supply lines he needs the seaport of Tobruk. Both … Memoir '44 — Dutch Open 2019
Ranger Stronghold Scenario#: 179 Date: 9/14/1943 Location: Lattari Mountains, Italy The First and Fourth Rangers, under the command of Bill Darby, landed at Maiori, west of Salerno on 9 September 1943. They then moved 10km inland to block the road to Naples. Once established in the hills, they became the major obstacle to German… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
Raid on Barce Scenario#: 6336 Date: 9/13/1942 Location: Barce, Libya To interrupt Rommel's lines of communication and hamper his anticipated offensive against El Alamein, a number of raids were ordered on key locations to the Axis' rear. The New Zealanders and Guards patrols were sent onto Barce. After traveling 100 … Memoir '44 — Battle Maps Series 1 - Disaster at Dieppe
Rachi Ridge Scenario#: 36 Date: 11/12/1943 Location: Leros, Greece German paratroopers landed on the Aegean island of Leros which had been manned by British defenders. Their objective was to take Rachi Ridge which lay astride a narrow isthmus in the middle of the island. If they could take hold that position, the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5 - West of Alamein
Pynda Avenged Scenario#: WO29 Date: 11/19/1940 Location: Agios Kosmas, Greece Greek High Command planned a large scale offensive operation to expel the Italians from the Pindus mountain region and push the Italians back across the Albanian border. Reserve forces were moved up to the front in preparation for the attack, which… Advanced Squad Leader — Winter Offensive Bonus Pack 2019
Probing Layforce Scenario#: 99 Date: 5/28/1941 Location: Babali Hani, Crete On Crete, once again the British forces had suffered defeat and were in retreat, streaming towards the beaches at Sfakia and evacuation by the Royal Navy. The pursuing German mountain troops were pressing hard, and had to be checked. The commandos of… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country
Prison Valley Scenario#: 7618 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Galatos, Crete The first wave of gliders from Gruppe Mitte's (Center Group) 3rd Fallschirmjäger Regiment had a number of bold objectives: Hauptmann Altmann's men were tasked with silencing a dangerous anti-aircraft battery in the Akrotiri peninsula, while the men… Memoir '44 — The Invasion of Crete
Priority Target Scenario#: S013 Date: 4/26/1941 Location: Korinthos, Greece The British, Australian, New Zealand, and Greek troops of “W Force” were retreating down the Balkans, slowing the Germans at every pass and strongpoint, heading toward a “mini-Dunkirk” evacuation on southern Greece. But an important bridge ahead was… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Starter Kit #2
Pride and Joy 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 Leader — ASL 11 - Doomed Battalions
Ponente Scenario#: HoNA04 Date: 1940-12-10 Location: Sidi Barrani, Egypt Lock 'n Load Tactical — Heroes of North Africa
Point of No Return Scenario#: 42 Date: 11/23/1941 Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya As part of the drive to open a corridor to Tobruk, the 2nd New Zealand Division was ordered to seize the heights dominating the eastern approaches to Ed Duda. Resistance was surprisingly feeble, as most Germans surrendered rather quickly. In their… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5 - West of Alamein
Po Valley Scenario#: 3740 Date: 4/18/1945 Location: Mount Montello, Italy In the last months of the war, between February and April 1945, the Wehrmacht built a fortified defensive system, along the Gothic Line's last limit ("The Green Line II"), near Montese. It was organized around Mount Montello (919 meters over … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Po Valley Scenario#: 1879 Date: 4/14/1945 Location: Mount Montello, Italy In the last months of the World War II, between February and April 1945, the Wehrmacht built, not so far from Montese, along the Gothic Line's last limit ("The Green Line II"), a fortified defensive system. It was organized around … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Play Ball Scenario#: 80 Date: 11/8/1942 Location: Mehdia, Morocco On D-Day of Operation Torch, the 2nd Battalion Landing Team (BLT) had in part the critical mission of capturing the coastal defenses of Mehdia before daylight. The Vichy French resisted the landings. In the fight the GIs were unable to halt their own… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 10 - Croix de Guerre
Platanias Scenario#: 7619 Date: 5/23/1941 Location: Modi, Crete By late morning on May 23rd, the Fallschirmjägers of Oberst Ramcke had set up a defensive position on the Platanias River bridge near the coast. Inland, Oberst Utz moved to take the village of Modi. Defended by New Zealanders, the … Memoir '44 — The Invasion of Crete
Patton's End Run Scenario#: W92 Date: 11-Aug-43 Location: Brolo, Sicily Patton was determined to beat "Monty" to Messina. The American advance along the north coast was being held up by the German 71st Panzergrenadier Regiment. To eliminate this unit, and possibly initiate a breakthrough, Patton planned to trap the… Squad Leader — Wargamers Pack 2
Paper Army 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… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Starter Kit #2
Panzers versus Grants Scenario#: 4231 Date: 5/27/1942 Location: Gazala, Libya The same day as the battle at Bir Hakeim, further on the right, 15th Panzer engaged the rest of the 7th Armoured Division. After sweeping over the 7th Motorized Brigade, the Panzers ran into heavy Resistance from the Grants of … Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Panzers in the Atlas Scenario#: 5872 Date: 2/15/1943 Location: Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia After very bloody fighting during December 1942, most of Tunisia was in German control. One exception: the area around Sidi Bou Zid. Both sides spent January reorganizing, but on February 14th, the Panzers went on the offensive, attacking Sidi Bou … Memoir '44 — Battle Maps Series 1 - Disaster at Dieppe
Panzer Graveyard Scenario#: J032 Date: 1/21/1944 Location: Minturno, Italy On 13 Nov 1943, 1st Company Hermann Góring Parachute-Panzer Regiment had been sent to support the 94th lnfantry Division, and worked with the 267th Grenadier Regiment guarding the coast. 7th Company HG Parachute-Panzer Regiment was supporting the… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #2
Operation SUPERCHARGE Scenario#: D04 Date: 1942-11-02 Location: El Alamein, Egypt The Second Battle of el Alamein was a two part thrust by the Allies to destroy the Afrika Korps. This time, they had superiority in every way: in airpower, tank strength, ínfantry training and equipment, supplies, replacements, and intelligence. The… Tank Leader — Desert Steel
Operation Nicety Scenario#: 204 Date: September 15, 1942 Location: Northeast, Libya Operation Nicety was part of Operation Agreement, which included four simultaneous raids on important Axis lines of communication. The operations were against Tobruk, Benghazi, Jalo, and Barce. The objective of … Undaunted — Undaunted: Reinforcements
Operation Mercury Scenario#: TBP09 Date: 20 May 1941 Location: Rethymnon, Crete “Expecting a seaborne invasion, little did the defenders of Rethymnon concern themselves with an airborne invasion.” Combat Commander — Tournament Battle Pack
Operation Marston Scenario#: 1000 Date: 14/15 July 1943 Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily Operation "Marston", as the attack on the Primosole Bridge over the River Simeto was known, was given to the 1st Parachute Brigade of the 1st British Airborne Division to accomplish. It was planned to the last detail: equipment, weaponry, route, … Squad Leader — The General #20.2
Operation LIGHTFOOT Scenario#: D13 Date: 1942-10-27 Location: El Alamein, Egypt The Second Battle of el Alamein began with an artillery barrage heavier than any since World War I. Montgomery assigned 834 25pdr. field guns and 48 medium guns to blast a front of 12,000 yards wide. The creepíng barrage swept … Tank Leader — Desert Steel
Operation Lightfoot Scenario#: 19363 Date: 10/23/1942 Location: El Alamein, Egypt In early September, after Rommel's flanking move at Alam Haifa failed, both sides spent the next few weeks reinforcing their positions. Montgomery, satisfied with the outcome, prepared a plan to attack the Germans, and on October 24th, Monty launched… Memoir '44 — Battle Maps Series 2 - Through Jungle and Desert
Operation Ladbroke Scenario#: 20077 Date: 7/9/1943 Location: Syracuse, Sicily Operation Ladbroke, July 9 1943At 18.00h, a total of 144 gliders with 2075 men of the British 1st Airlanding Brigade, South Staffordshire Regiment depart Tunisia. Their mission is to capture the Ponte Grande Bridge and knock out a coastal battery. … Memoir '44 — Dutch Open 2017
Operation Herring Scenario#: 17120 Date: 4/20/1945 Location: Poggio Rusco, Italy In April 1945, the last Allied offensive was to break through the German Gothic Line in order to reach the north of Italy and the borders with Austria and Yugoslavia. To support this offensive the Allied Command decided a small … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2016
Operation CRUSADER Scenario#: 8D0 Date: 1941-11-19 Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya The British winter offensive began on 19 November 1941 with the seattering of Eígth Army's armored forces: 7th Armoured Brigade drove on the escarpment at Sidi Rezeg, 22nd Armoured bogged down attacking the well dug-in Ariete Division at Bir el … Tank Leader — Desert Steel
Operation Crusader Scenario#: 14 Date: Nov 1941 Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya By November of 1941, the British had heavily reinforced the 8th Army and launched attacks with their new Crusader tanks. Confusing, see-saw armor battles raged between the 7th Armored Division ( “Desert Rats ”) and Rommel's Panzergruppe Afrika.… Tide of Iron — Days of the Fox
Operation Crusader Scenario#: 3129 Date: 11/19/1941 Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya The Marmaric Desert, November 19, 1941 - General Auchinleck orders General Cunningham, to launch the British Eighth Army into a massive offensive into Libya in a bid to destroy the Italo-German armored divisions and free up the garrison in Tobruk. … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough
Operation Caravan Scenario#: NA10 Date: 1942/09/14 Location: Barce, Libya Operation Caravan was part of Operation Agreement, which included four simultaneous raids on important Axis lines of communication. The operations were against Tobruk, Benghazi, Jalo, and Barce. The attack on Barce, code—named Operation Caravan, was… Undaunted — Undaunted: North Africa
Operation BATTLEAXE Scenario#: D02 Date: 1941-06-16 Location: Fort Capuzzo, Libya The Tiger convoy of May 1941 reached Alexandria laden with 238 of the latest British tanks and 43 Hurricanes for the R.A.F. These Tiger cubs had been rushed through the Straights of Gibraltar in the hopes of an early Allied … Tank Leader — Desert Steel
On To Florence Scenario#: J099 Date: 7/22/1944 Location: San Martino, Italy During July the German Fourteenth Army's stubborn withdrawal up the Italian peninsular slowed. The intention of the German command was to keep the Allies out of the valley of the River Arno and give their reserve divisions time to prepare the Gothic… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Journal #6
On the Run Scenario#: HoNA03 Date: 1940-08-17 Location: Barkasan, British Somaliland Lock 'n Load Tactical — Heroes of North Africa
On the Road to Victory Scenario#: TBP05 Date: July 1943 Location: Modica, Sicily Canadian war correspondent Ross Munro recorded his experiences of the first few days of the attack on the Italian 122 lnfantry Regiment north of Pachino in a newspaper article printed on 12 July: "Stubborn Resistance has been put up by … Combat Commander — Tournament Battle Pack
On the Road from Rabat Scenario#: Comp11 Date: 1942-11-09 Location: Sw Of Port Lyautey, Morroco The objective of Operation Goa/post, part of the Western Task Force of Operation Torch, was to capture the coastal town of Mehdia, secure the Sebou River and, most importantly, take control of the airfield at Port Lyautey. The … Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 1
On the Road from Rabat Scenario#: HoNA21 Date: 1942-11-09 Location: Sw Of Port Lyautey, Morroco Lock 'n Load Tactical — Heroes of North Africa
On the Road from Rabat Scenario#: LOF10 Date: 11/09/1942 Location: Sw Of Port Lyautey, Morroco The objective of Operation Goa/post, part of the Western Task Force of Operation Torch, was to capture the coastal town of Mehdia, secure the Sebou River and, most importantly, take control of the airfield at Port Lyautey. The … Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes — Line of Fire #07
On Silent Wings Scenario#: 98 Date: 5/20/1941 Location: Canea, Crete Lieutenant Alfred Genz’s 1st Company had two objectives in the airborne assault on Crete. First, to neutralize the anti-aircraft battery located south of Canea and, second, to capture a nearby wireless station. Most of his gliders touched down near… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL 5a - For King and Country
On Boys! On! On! Scenario#: Comp23 Date: 1935-12-25 Location: Selaclaca Amba, Ethiopia After drinking their last bottles of wine on Christmas Eve, the Spahys di Libya were awoken by the sounds of noise and shots coming from a large group of Ethiopian attackers. The Spahys di Libya had the advantage of occupying the high ground of the… Lock 'n Load Tactical — Compendium 3
Not So Disposed 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… Advanced Squad Leader — ASL Starter Kit Expansion Pack #1
Northwest Africa - Victory in Tunisia 3-13 May 1943 World War II - Mediterranean Theater
Northwest Africa - Tunisia - Race for Tunisia 17 November 1942 to 1 January 1943 World War II - Mediterranean Theater
Northwest Africa - Tunisia - Operations since 26 February and Situation 22 April 1943 World War II - Mediterranean Theater
Northwest Africa - Tunisia - Final Allied Offensive - 22 April Attack and 3 May 1943 Attack and Exploitation World War II - Mediterranean Theater
Northwest Africa - Tunisia - Axis Initiative 1 January to 14 February 1943 World War II - Mediterranean Theater
Northwest Africa - The Tunisian Battleground 1942-1943 World War II - Mediterranean Theater
Northwest Africa - The Dorsal Positions in Central Tunisia - Kasserine Pass - 13-18 February 1943 World War II - Mediterranean Theater
Northwest Africa - The 1st Division Drive to DJ. Sidi Meftah 23-27 April 1943 World War II - Mediterranean Theater