
___ A DETERMINED ROMMEL*	
___Mersa El Braga,North Afrika*
________March 31st,1941*
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_______German Advance*
__________versus*
_________UK Delay*
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_Scenario Design by Dick Reece*
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General Erwin "Desert Fox" Rommel's assignment upon his arrival in Tripoli
was to "Hold Tripolitania",by acting as a blocking force.This order did not set
well with the Desert Fox,it went against his very nature.He got in a plane and
flew over the vast terrain of the Afrikan desert upon arriving in Tripoli,
anxious to familiarize himself with his new battlefield.Two days later elements
of the "5th Leichte Division" arrived in Afrika.*
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These elements consisted of a Panzer regiment taken from the 3rd Panzer Division,two machine gun battalions,
a reconnaisance battalion [the 3rd] one part of an artillery regiment,and pioneer
and anti-tank units.It was very weak in infantry,but its panzer element was an
iron fist and the entire formation was	mechanized and very mobile,an advantage
Rommel would exploit to the fullest while in Afrika.*
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It took no time for Rommel to realize through intelligence received from his 
newly arrived recon elements that the British elements immediately in front
of him were thin and weak.****Unbeknownst to Rommel,after General Richard O'connor's 
masterful drive of the Italian forces to the rear,much of his force had been
recalled and deployed to Greece to meet the threat there,upon Winston Churchill's
insistence.*
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Rommel seized the fort at El Agheila almost without incindent.Not
wishing to give up his new initiative,he decided to take the next tactically
neccessary British position,Mersa El Braga.On March 31st the fight began,and
immediately got off to a bad start,as Rommel's men were bogged down by the British
infantry,as well as elements of a 25 pounder regiment and antitank regiment,
and tanks of the British 2nd armoured division.*
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Rommel searched desperately for a way into the defenses of Mersa El Braga,and 
found it through some lightly defended dunes north of the coast road.He immediately
sent elements of the 8th machine gun battalion through the dunes,and the fight
brewed into a smoking burning hell on earth!*
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