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Battle of Gazala (1942)

The year is 1942 and the desert war is in a constant state of flux. Rommel fights back and forth against a never-ending carousel of British generals, where victories on either side are undone in a matter of months, partially due to incompetence, mostly due to the appalling logistics of desert warfare.

After being thoroughly routed during Operation Crusader, Rommel finds himself on the initiative again after the British overreach their supply lines. Their short-lived second liberation of Benghazi is undone as the Afrika Corps charges back up the Libyan coast, in an almost exact replica of Unternehmen Sonnenblume the previous year. The Eighth Army, wanting to keep pressure off the key port of Tobruk, halt at the 'Gazala Line' anchored at the eponymous coastal town. There they plan to dig in and prepare for their own counteroffensive.

Rommel has no intention of waiting for such a thing. He draws up a daring plan to outflank the Gazala Line and surround Tobruk; if he plays this right then he can remove the thorn in his side that held up his entire 1941 campaign. And if things should go well and the Eighth Army descends into chaos, then there might be no stopping the Axis from entering Egypt...


(There has been some noise made about a possibly official Axis desert campaign, but as such a thing hasn't been confirmed and still might be up in the air, I felt I may as well put this out and see how it does. Granted, this does mean that a few months from now this scenario may be completely obsolete but oh well! If people care to see it (or if the devs confirm that there won't be an Afrika Korps dlc) then I'll make '1st El Alamein' from the Axis perspective as well.

Sadly, I am unable (or simply have no clue how) to edit in fixed fortifications, therefore the 'Bir Hakeim' objective is not nearly as tough to take here as it is in the official 'Crusader' scenario. Hope you can be understanding!

And finally, for those that are interested, I wrote somewhat of a meme guide for a certain division in the game, that you can check out here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2843420073

Good luck and have fun! This scenario is balanced for Classic difficulty.)

EDIT: Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it!) it seems this scenario will be made obsolete by the upcoming "Desert Fox" expansion - nonetheless I will keep this scenario up in the workshop for those who bought "Desert Rats" but have no interest in "Desert Fox" as this scenario will not require the latter DLC to play.