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Deployment: In early 1941 Vichy France has declared war on the British empire and dispatched its fleet to draw off British naval forces ahead of a prospective German invasion. This battle takes in the straights of Gibraltar, so the long board edges are unscrollable. For this scenario both sides have a 100pt starting force, and a 50pt reinforcement force steaming towards the action. The arrival time and location of the reinforcements is randomised between the short board edges, once enemy reinforcements arrive each fleet is permitted to retreat from the opposite short board edge.  The French have their two modern battlecruisers Strasbourg and Dunkerque , three modern light cruisers La Galissonniere , Gloire and Montcalm , as well as four destroyers. The British have three modernised dreadnoughts Warspite , Malaya and Barham , escorted by three destroyers. Turn's 1 & 2: The two fleets cautiously move to engage. The British concentrate their battleships in one squadron with thei...

  Deployment: A German panzer grenadier regiment are defending a key crossroads and the terrain features which dominate it. They expect the British to attack up the road from the south, and have entrenched a battalion facing in that direction on the reverse slope of the line of hills. Waiting to deliver a counterpunch at the right moment, their second battalion occupies the village on their left supported by a panzer IV company hull down on the hills. Several Pak40 anti tank platoons are positioned in the orchards and woodland behind their lines, ready to deal with any enemy armour. Turn 1: The Germans are wrong footed as the British mass two battalions with a company of Churchills in support and advance from the south east under the cover of a heavy smoke barrage.  Turn 2: The overconfident British sweep into the town, and are shocked to discover a whole company tenaciously holding it. A platoon of tanks is knocked out and the infantry sent reeling back with heavy casualties....