Ruweisat Ridge,
EL AMAMEIN, EGYPT, 16 July 1942: After the swirling melee of 15 July, Rommel
and the DAK made a determined effort to regain the lost ground
on Ruweisat Ridge on the 16th. Gathering his remaining mobile
am10r, he sent them east-ward again. This attack met determined
resistance. The concentrated fire of British corps artillery was
brought to bear with devastating effect. Fire from 6-pounder anti-tank
guns picked off one tank after another. Rommel was forced to call
off the attack and withdraw, leaving behind 24 tanks, including
a captured Stuart, six armored cars, six 88mm guns, ten other
anti-tank guns and ten field guns. Rommel summed up the situation
on 17 July as follows: ‘On that day every last German reserve
had to be thrown in. Our forces were now so small in comparison
to the British that we were going to count ourselves lucky if
we managed to go on holding our line at all. As a result of the
immense casualties which the Italians had suffered our line was
very thinly manned ...We had virtually no reserves.’ The
blows to the DAK during the fighting on July 15 had been telling.
The failure of the last ditch effort on the 16th led Bayerlein
to later acknowledge, ‘When Rommel lost Tel el Eisa and Ruweisat,
he and all of us knew we were lost.’
With the expansion
of our presentation of the war in North Africa, it was high time
that the seminal, and first historical module set on the hot sands
... re-entered the fray with the largest map, including more map
area than any other edition or game out there at this level. Enter
historical ATS THE FOX STRIKES BACK: The Battle of First Alamein
at Ruweisat Ridge - EXTENDED MAP EDITION. That's a mouthful,
but it's also a chance to experience longer range engagments,
and add places like 'Stuka Wadi' to the battlefield sites YOU
have fought over ... and won ... or lost. But in either case EXPERIENCED
as that is what it's all about and always has been. This new edition
includes 8 scenarios, remastered to fit the larger battle area
-- with OOB additions, plus the new, EXTENDED MAP with the new
desert terrain and standard size hexes, plus color-themed scenario
editions, new BW special rules, and a sheet of El Alamein BONUS
color die-cut AFV coounters!
Your ATS Rulebook
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