Kasserine - Can the Allies win?

[MikeJ19]

Good evening,

Having tried this from the Axis point of view - using General Staff's guide to give me some pointers - I'm flipping sides and seeing if I can hold on as the Allied player.

Here is a look at the terrain.

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The Axis forces - as I just played this I have a good idea of what I am up against.

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My expectations of what the Axis player is going to try to do.

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My forces

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My initial thoughts

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Feb 14th - turn 1

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Start of day 3 - 16 Feb

Really, this is the start of my turn - so the Axis player has had three turns already.

[Olorin]

Nice screenshots, they show the situation very clearly.

[MikeJ19]

Olorin,

Thanks, taking the time to do this helps me figure out my plans. Plus, it helps me ask questions when I have problems or do not understand something.

Here is a look at the situation on Feb 20.

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Things are starting to unravel. The Axis attacks are unrelenting and very successful. My forces are getting pushed around by the Germans across the entire front.

[MikeJ19]

It got worse from there. I thought thinks were going alright and then it fell apart.

The Axis player was able to get a lot more out of the attacks and push my units back and then gain advantages over the next unit - by the end, they had pushed me off both passes and Kasserine. The game went longer than expected - which I thought might happen - and that did not help, but I was thumped.

I know that a couple of times, I was convinced I was going to win. I thought that the Axis player had run out of steam and that by entrenching I could easily hold them off - wrong. I did not take any screen shots as I got caught up in the game and kept trying to hold onto something as things spiraled out of control.

I'm going to try this again to see if I can do better.

Worse luck, I did not save it at the beginning of turn 7 - so I have to go back to turn 3 to try this again.

Oh well, failure is how we learn....

[MikeJ19]

A quick question

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So, I went back to the turn 3 save, which was really the end of the US turn save.

Here is a look at the end of turn 4

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A turn later ...

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After my moves on Turn 6.

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I think that I am in trouble again. The Germans in the West will soon be able to swing towards either Tebessa or Kasserine and I have nothing left to stop them or plug the gap...

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I'm not happy with how this is turning out...

[MikeJ19]

I found this scenario very frustrating as the Allied player. I got a draw, but that I feel was just luck. The Axis player was in complete control.

I obviously have more to learn!