The Battle of Tebessa


November 16th, 2003, at Game Central

 

Overview of the battlefield

Italian CANT bomber certainly can bomb--but hits nothing

Falschirmjagers move up wadi under fire from French infantry

Italian AA units, Bersaglieri, and Semoventes advance

Ju-87 Stukas with fighter escorts bomb French gun positions

 

Full Falschirmjager battalion cuts into the French defenders

 

Retreating French infantry try to hold Falschirmjagers behind the flank town

 

Axis AA units invest the captured airfield

 

Axis unit approach Tebessa as French CO watches from entrenchments

 

More Axis forces move forward, including Bersaglieri

 

Italians slog into the streets of Tebessa, losing a Semovente

 

Remnants of French battalion on flank reoccupies small town

 

German 88mm AA gun in wadi firing indirect and direct fire HE

 

Italians push a little farther into Tebessa, losing another Semovente while driving off US infantry

 

A mean bunch of warmongers caused much mayhem this battle

 

Dedication to duty:

one commander was in the hospital days before the game with broken ribs, yet played