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Scenario#: 19     Date: November 19, 1941     Location: Gabr Saleh, Libya

On the second day of Operation Crusader, Kampfgruppe Stephan had been formed from units of the 21st Panzer Division in response to reports of incursions of British tanks. Kampfgruppe Stephan encountered elements of the 4th Armoured Brigade alone in…

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: 20     Date: June 13, 1942     Location: Tobruk, Libya

The Gazala battles had been raging for days with Panzerarmee Afrika driving for the great prize of Tobruk. Several British strongpoints still lay in its path, one of which was the Knightsbridge box held by the 201st Guards Motor Brigade …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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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#: 22     Date: November 28, 1942     Location: Djedeida, Tunisia

On November 27 the Allied spearhead of the TORCH landings ran into heavy opposition near Tebourba. The 1st Surrey’s scout vehicles contacted 15 German tanks, some of which were from the 501st Schwere Tank Abteilung, some 13 Pz III and …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: 23     Date: May 27, 1942     Location: Point 171, Libya

The first full-scale encounter between British and German armor in the Battle of Gazala began at approximately 7:15 am in the morning of the 27th of May, 1942 when the British 4th Armoured Brigade was assaulted by the entire armored …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: 24     Date: May 27, 1942     Location: Bir el Harmat, Libya

The first day of the Gazala Battles. After slamming into the 4th Armoured Brigade and overrunning the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade the 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions of the Afrika Korps continued to run due north literally looking for a …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: 25     Date: April 7, 1941     Location: Derna, Libya

As Rommel’s first offensive pushed across Cyrenaica, the British fighting withdrawal turned into a rout. Those forces falling back along the northern and southern edges of the Djebel Akhdar gravitated to the seaside town of Derna, where the coast…

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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Scenario#: 26     Date: March 22, 1943     Location: Wadi Zigzaou, Tunisia

When the British 8th Army began crossing the Mareth Line, one of the obstacles encountered was the wide, steep-sided Wadi Zigzaou. The first units to make their way across the wadi were accompanied by some 40 Valentine tanks, used because …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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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#: 28     Date: November 23, 1941     Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya

Day 6 of Operation Crusader found the 6th South African Brigade deployed in anticipation of a German attack near Point 178. The attack commenced around 1500 hours and drew intense artillery and AT fire from the defenders, causing the German …

Panzer (YAQ)88: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the North African Front, 1940-1942
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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#: 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#: 3707     Date: 12/1/1942     Location: Tebourba, Tunisia

On November 29th and 30th it was tough going for the still largely green Allied Combat Command. The Allies had launched two unsuccessful attacks to take the town of Djedeida and clear a path for the march on Tunis. Then …

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Scenario#: 3711     Date: 6/12/1942     Location: Knightsbridge, Libya

The Battle of Gazala was a series of clashes between Rommel and the British in the late spring of 1942 near the Libyan coast. The brilliant, but risky maneuvers by the "Desert Fox" in late May and early June were …

Memoir '44Air Pack
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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#: 3739     Date: 2/22/1943     Location: Kasserine Pass, Tunisia

After the Anglo-American landings in North Africa on November 8, 1942, the Americans remained optimistic about their ability to fight an opponent like Rommel and the Afrika Korps. Although in headlong retreat after the Battle of El Alamein, Rommel…

Memoir '44Air Pack
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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 '44Air Pack
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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 LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre
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Scenario#: 81     Date: 6/20/1941     Location: Damascus, Syria

The Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon was conducted primarily by the 7th Australian Division, the 5th Indian Infantry Brigade and the brigade-strength Free French Division. A week later they were about ten miles south of Damascus but facing strong…

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Scenario#: 251     Date: 5/12/1944     Location: Castelforte, Italy

It was apparent that only a bold stroke would get the costly Allied offensive in Italy rolling again. General Alphonso Juin, commander of the French Expeditionary Corps, convinced Mark Clark to accept his plan for a new spring offensive, to be…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 249     Date: 6/20/1941     Location: Mezze, Syria

By nightfall on 19 June, the Allied position at Mezzeh was desperate. Ammunition was running low, no food had been eaten for 24 hours, casualties were severe, and medical supplies were exhausted. During the night (when Vichy attacks were suspended),…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 250     Date: 11/10/1942     Location: Port-Lyautey, Morocco

The first phase of Operation Torch include amphibious landings along the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Many of the primary objectives included the securing of French airdromes in the area. One such field was nestled on three sides by the Sebou River. A…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 10 - Croix de Guerre ( 2nd Edition)
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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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Scenario#: 20     Date: 5/11/1944     Location: Santa Maria, Italy

The U.S. 88th Infantry Division was to take Mount Bracchi in the opening of the offensive to take Rome. The 351st Infantry Regiment was to take the small town of Santa Maria Infante. But to reach it they had to attack over difficult terrain – in the…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 3 - Yanks
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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 LeaderASL 3a Yanks (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 180     Date: 12/18/1943     Location: San Pietro, Italy

Since the 7th of December, the American 36th (Texas) Division had been attempting to remove the German strongpoint of San Pietro. The “T-Patchers” and their supporting elements had made two previous attempts against San Pietro, but they had no…

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Scenario#: 178     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Niscemi, Sicily

During the initial invasion of Sicily, many American parachute units were given the task of blocking German movement towards the landing beaches. One such, the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Regiment, landed two miles northwest of Biscari.…

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Scenario#: 28     Date: 3/29/1942     Location: Thrace, Greece

After the swift and total Axis victory over Greece, Bulgaria laid claim to Thrace and Macedonia. Throughout the winter of 1941-42, small bandit groups began to emerge as the nucleus of a fledgling resistance movement. On March 29th, two such bands…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 4 - Partisan!
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Scenario#: 35     Date: 11/19/1941     Location: Gabr Saleh, Libya

The 4th Armoured Brigade, probing northeast of Gabr Saleh, was driving a German recon unit before it. The Afrika Korps at last reacted, quickly forming several units of the 21st Panzer Division into Kampfgruppe Stephan which set out to investigate…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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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 LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 37     Date: 6/13/1942     Location: Tobruk, Libya

The Gazala battles had been raging for days with Panzerarmee Afrika driving for the great prize of Tobruk. Several British strongpoints still lay in its path, one of which was the Knightsbridge box held by the 201st Guards Motor Brigade Group. On 13…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 38     Date: 4/7/1941     Location: Derna, Libya

As Rommel’s first offensive pushed across Cyrenaica, the British fighting withdrawal became a rout. Those forces falling back along the northern and southern edges of the Djebel Akhdar gravitated to the seaside town of Derna, where the coast road…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 39     Date: 3/31/1941     Location: Mersa el Brega, Libya

The main line of defense in Libya was a natural bottleneck along the coast at Mersa el Brega, with the sea on one flank and an extensive salt marsh on the other. The British mined and wired this line extensively. Rommel launched a full scale assault…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 40     Date: 2/26/1943     Location: Medjez el Bab, Tunisia

Preliminary to the main German attack on Medjez, a position known as Fort McGregor had to be seized from British defenders. The forward outpost consisted of an infantry company with its platoons dug in around a bare, rocky knoll, with the entire…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 41     Date: 3/22/1943     Location: Wadi Zigzaou, Tunisia

Montgomery chose to make a frontal assault in an area defended by elements of Panzergrenadier Regiment Afrika and the weak Giovani Fascisti (Young Fascists). The 151st Infantry Brigade of the 50th Division reinforced by forty–odd Valentine tanks were…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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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 LeaderASL 5 - West of Alamein
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Scenario#: 93     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Maleme, Crete

The airfield at Maleme figured prominently in the German plans for the capture of Crete. “Group West”. Commanded most of the 1st Assault Regiment under the command of General Meindl, consisted of three detachments: one to land at the Tavronitis…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 94     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Maleme Airfield, Crete

For thirty minutes the Luftwaffe hammered the airfield at Maleme, concentrating on the AA positions near the mouth of the dry Tavronitis. Certainly the Bofors gunners at Maleme had an unenviable task. They had, of necessity, to be sited well forward…

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Scenario#: 95     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Maleme, Crete

The glider detachments of Braun and von Plessen were ordered to capture the western approaches to the vitally important Maleme airfield and secure the right flank of the Assault Regiment before joining Major Koch and the main body at the field…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 100     Date: 7/31/1943     Location: Regalbuto, Sicily

It was up to the Devonshire and Dorsetshire battalions of the 50th Infantry Division to take Regalbuto. Dominating the town was the massive ridge that ran southwest of it, and that was held by the grenadiers of the Hermann Goring Division. In a…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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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 LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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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 LeaderASL 5a - For King and Country
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Scenario#: 97     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Heraklion, Crete

The mission of the German paratroopers approaching Heraklion was to take the town and its airfield in order to land troops of the 5th Mountain Division. As the paratroopers jumped from the Junker Ju52s, each armed with only a few grenades and a…

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Scenario#: 45     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Kastelli, Crete

A number of Greek regiments, understrength and poorly armed but with grim determination after the defeats of the past month, were on Crete. On the day of the German paratroop assault, one such – the 1st, numbering a bit over 1000 men – was stationed…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 6 - The Last Hurrah
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Scenario#: 51     Date: 4/20/1943     Location: Takrouna, Tunisia

As part of 8th Army’s first attempt to crack the Enfidaville Line, the 5th New Zealand Brigade was ordered to capture the key observation point of Takrouna – a small village crowned by a group of tightly clustered buildings surrounded by cliffs, all…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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Scenario#: 52     Date: 9/9/1943     Location: Parma, Italy

Late on 8 September, the same day the armistice between Italy and the Allies was announced, elements of the 433rd Medium Tank Battalion in Fidenza were ordered to move east to Parma. There, in an attempt to keep the Germans from occupying key…

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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…

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Scenario#: 55     Date: 7/11/1943     Location: Palma di Montechiaro, Sicily

Early on the morning of 11 July, Lt.Col. John Heintges’ 3rd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment crossed the Palma River and advanced westward along Highway 115. As the GIs approached Palma di Montechiaro where Italian forces were know to be, white…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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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…

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Scenario#: 57     Date: 9/10/1943     Location: Rome, Italy

Days after the armistice with Italy was signed, the German 2nd Parachute Division advanced toward Rome from the south. Several Italian formations, including the elite 21st “Grenadiers of Sardinia” Division, set up blocking positions and attempted to…

Advanced Squad LeaderASL 7 - Hollow Legions (2nd Edition)
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