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As the morning of 27th May
dawned the 8th Panzer Regiment under Lieutenant Teege led Rommel’s
wide sweep around the British southern flank at Bir Hacheim.
With one hundred and eighty tanks, the regiment was arrayed in
spearhead formation with the first section moving forward on a
wide front of one and one half miles by about a mile deep. At
about 0715 hours, the call rang out in the headsets, “Enemy
armor, twelve o’clock!” A British lieutenant of the
8th Hussars also dryly noted enemy armor to his regimental HQ
by radio. “It looks as if Jerry’s come with a Panzer
brigade,” only to correct himself moments later. “There’s
more than a brigade, its the whole bloody Afrika Korps. Alert!
Alert!”
And thus began the historic
Battle of Gazala. It was May of 1942, Hitler’s armies were
still the masters of Europe, with more conquests to come. And
yet YOU, tactical-level gamer and WOA devotee ... has only experienced
this battle in ‘penny packets’, a tank here, two tanks
there. Until NOW. Because the GAZALA MONSTER is here to rescue
you from never being able to cross off, ‘big, real Western
Desert warfare experience’ ... from your bucket list. Imagine
the old Tobruk orders-of-battle ... with all of their one-to-one
representations ... then knife forward with your formations of
10, no 15, wait add in Troop Leaders and panzer leaders ... and
make that 17 AFVs ... in a full-blown presentation that gives
you ALL of the tanks, guns and men (i.e., all combat counters;
just bring your ASLRB and markers) ... and the playing area to
duke it out in.
The set also debuts the first collection of 11” × 16”
folding AP-style DESERT GEO boards and a selection of overlays
to go with them. And color special rules, plus scenarios in color
format.
