WW2 Western Desert Campaign - Turn 2

The first campaign turn saw Axis forces successfully take the offensive and after two successful battles forced an Allied retirement of one zone on the campaign map.

Previous campaign turn

Turn two of the campaign begins with the flow of supplies. These can be interrupted and must be diced for each campaign turn. Axis forces get supplies 80% of the time and Allied forces 90% of the time. A couple of rolls of a D10 determines Axis forces have their supplies interrupted and Allied supplies delivered.

The next step (for forces which received supplies) is to determine where to direct supplies. There are three options:

1. Prepare defences - The defending player’s units will have prepared positions and minefields.
2. Reequip units - Players attempt to recover lost units for all their divisions. On a 4+ the units are returned to service.
3. Launch attacks - When both players decide to attack roll the dice to decide which player attacks, if drawn the Axis player is the attacker. The losing player’s supplies will instead be directed to reequipping units.

In this turn the Allies decide to direct their supply effort towards reequipping units, while Axis forces decide to continue the offensive and launch attacks.

Current positions

The Allied units are turned over and shuffled then placed down face first. Axis forces reorganise their forces and decide the offensive will begin with an assault by the Ariete division. This division did not see action in the previous campaign turn so is carrying no losses into this turn. The opposing Allied division is then revealed as the 1st South African division.

As attackers the Axis divisions are lined up and the opposing Allied divisions shuffled the placed face down.

The first attack is decided and the opposition is revealed.

Next couple of posts will cover how terrain cards are transferred to the tabletop, and how the type of game is determined.

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