| REVIEW OVERVIEW | |
| Scenario Rating | |
| SUMMARY High risk/high reward ... or high risk/total disaster. It's your choice. Our playing ended in premature disaster. I suspect we'd like the scenario better if the lower risk option was taken. But this scenario is feast for famine for the French. Approach it cautiously when deciding how you're going to tackle the VCs. | 2 OVERALL SCORE |
Advanced Squad Leader AAR: Rude Mood (AP79)
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Here’s the historical situation:
Date: May 18, 1944
Location: Esperia, Italy
Attacker: Free French (Groupement Linares, Chasseurs d’ Afrique)
Defender: German (Panzergrenadier-Division 90)
The Allied efforts to breach the German fortified defenses known as the Hitler Line were moving slowly forward. General Juin, commanding the Free French forces in Italy, had a plan to outflank the Germans through the Esperia defile and on to Mt. Onto. The initial French assault was forcefully repulsed by anti-tank ambushes and determined defenders manning positions among the rock-strewn approaches to Esperia. General Monsabert was not deterred, however, and ordered an all-out combined-arms assault, with a battalion of African infantry attacking the town over the hills and an armored force pushing up the road.
It’s very possible this is the shortest scenario Scott and I have ever played. Potential players … study those victory conditions carefully!
GET TO THE CHOPPA…!!! 
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