75th Anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Gaming The Battles)

Turn 4
GBP and BOP fail to unpin and the remaining tank from the first platoon runs, leaving just the second tank platoon to take on the guns. All the units that can advance do so but the Allied shooting is woeful, failing to hit anything.

The Germans return fire and BRP is destroyed completely. The HMG team and the MG Nest punish GGP and destroy 6 teams. The remaining Germans platoons destroy another team from GBP.

The LG40 guns fire upon the second tank platoon and manage the bail the command tank but do little else.

Turn 5
GBP and GGP fail their morale checks and fallback from the battle. The command tank of second tank platoon fails to remount this turn but otherwise, what’s left of the Allied attack unpins and advances. BOP manage to kill one of the Fallschirmjager HMG teams with their fire but the tanks fail to hit anything.

The tanks are now close enough to assault the guns in their trenches. The guns manage to get their defensive fire off as the tanks close and it’s effective, destroying the tanks as they close!

The LG40 guns turn their fire upon the last remaining bailed out tank and destroy it. And with that, the Allied assault is well and truly stopped.

Wrap Up
While the battle went the same way as history, it was arguably far more one sided than the real battle. The Allied infantry, especially the Gurkha platoons were fairly ineffective and could have done with having another platoon or two to make a real fight of it. The tanks were exposed without infantry support and paid the price, which was true to history.

All in all, an interesting battle but it could have done with being a little more competitive. Perhaps one to be replayed in the future with more Allied forces involved to try to level the playing field.