Italians take a pounding in the Desert

So, we haven't played Memoir '44 in a while, so in the dying embers of the girls school Easter holiday, Roshni, Maya and I replayed a battle in the desert back in 1941 between retreating Italian forces and the British 4th Armoured Brigade in a scenario called "Beda Fomm". The basics of the set was that a large column of retreating tanks and men were caught by a small British blocking force. Whilst they held the Italians at bay, the rest of the 4th Armoured swept up from the south with a mixture of tanks, elite tank units and infantry. Roshni and Maya played the part of the Italians.

The trap is sprung! The Italians are caught by the blocking force on the main road whilst the rest of the 4th Armoured charges up from the south.

Harsh! A single Italian tank catches the full force of 4 dice hits from the tank on the hill.

A line of dice showing another crushing shot against a single Italian tank.

It's not going well for the Italians!!

The Italians are thrown into disarray - tanks burn to their front, British infantry 

charge in from the South and rear

Ouch! Still some fight in the Italians yet!

The Italians fight back!!

The British charge with an Infantry Assault...oh nuts...

Has the British Trap failed???

Then again perhaps not - that's an Armoured Assault card btw...

Surrender or be destroyed!!

Mama mia...

Like in the actual battle, the Italians tried to split their resources between cracking the roadblock and defending against the southern attack instead of rushing the roadblock in force and rolling over it before the 4th Armoured could save the small force there. Yay for the good guys!!