[Taskforce]

This is a *what if* AAR, that assumes that the large supply of American tanks never took place, thus the massproduction of the Australian AC1, AC3 and AC4 started, leading to Australia being able to deplay a large taskforce to Italy in October 1944. Of cause, being so far away from the Australian mainland, replacing losses isn't easy and is time consuming. Thus the taskforce will have to be used with a great deal of thought in order to reduce losses as much as possible.

The taskforce consists of:

-Staff: HQ + Lloyd Carrier (8 men)
-2/7th AR: 44 AC4, 6 AC3 & 4 carrier (ammo) (258 men)
-112th AT-R: 12 6-pounder AT-guns, 12 Lloyd Carrier & 2 Lloyd Carrier (ammo) (88 men)
-67th AA-R: 12 20 mm Polsten AA-guns, 12 Lloyd Carrier & 2 Lloyd Carrier (ammo) (100 men)
-23rd/21st IR: A, B & C companies + inf AT, support HMG company & 4 Lloyd Carrier (542 men)
-16th FR: 24 25-pounder artillery pieces (144 men)

Thus it is a formidable fighting force, armed with no less than 44 17-pounder tanks, 12 6-pounder AT-guns, 12 20 mm AA-guns and 24 25-pounder artillery pieces supported by nine Vickers HMG sections and a lot of infantry.

This AAR series will consist of up to 10 battles.

Cheers, Taskforce