North Africa campaign preparation tasks

Having completed the campaign map this past weekend, I am planning to begin the campaign with the first game this coming weekend. But before I can start the games I have three areas I need to complete:

1. Terrain cards
2. Orders of battle
3. Scenario options for the games.

I used terrain cards during my English Civil War campaign and they worked out really well. A new series of terrain cards is needed. To create them I used the same approach as with the campaign map, felt tipped pens and colouring pencils.

Desert terrain cards depicting hills, escarpments, swamp, rough ground, open ground, roads and town.

For orders of battle need to be finalised, I am trying to gauge what is a suitable starting size for a good game and for during the campaign when there are losses which cannot be resupplied. The order of battle represents a portion of a division, rather than the whole division, which maybe trying to a breakthrough or capture key terrain.

The rules used are based upon Lock 'n' Loads boardgame Tank on Tank. Naturally for such a tank oriented game all the Infantry divisions will all have supporting tank elements.

German Panzer Division is represented here.

A portion of am Allied armoured division

Allied Infantry Division with tank support

The final task is to determine a small range of 6 scenarios which will be played (selection based on a D6 dice roll). So far I have four taken from "Wargaming An Introduction" by Neil Thomas:

1. Encounter Battle
2. Frontal Assault
3. Surprise Assault
4. Escalating Engagement
5. ?
6. ?

I am going to look thought the scenarios in One Hour Wargaming to fill the final two types of game.