Last Monday we played Mechili battle, scenario #3 from Benghazi Handicap book.
Western desert 1941 Italians (Roberto) vs. British (Marco and me) with plenty of those light tanks.
Decisive Italian victory: Roberto dash plan pierced our defence.
We had a lot of fun, BKIV is really great.
Some pictures enclosed

Welcome to the forum

Welcome to the forum!

A good looking game. I'm glad you had fun.

Great game, great rules and welcome on board too !

Thank you! Cheers from Genova Italy.
Federico

Welcome from me, too ! 

Welcome and great to see all those tankettes in action (a much loved vehicle type of mine).
Great game & report - thanks
Mark

      

A very good looking game, Mechili is an interesting battle

Tomorrow morning we've planned a refought of Mechili, so to correct some mistakes done in rules interpretation last Monday

Sounds fun

    

Hello and welcome to the forum 

Mechili second chance. This time a blunder, five failed Command rolls (half M13s heavy delayed) and an eagle-eyed and lucky Brit FAO, forced the Italian to stop their bold rush.
Decisive British victory and much fun!   

Quote from: Fede60 on 14 June 2024, 03:38:21 PMMechili second chance. This time a blunder, five failed Command rolls (half M13s heavy delayed) and an eagle-eyed and lucky Brit FAO, forced the Italian to stop their bold rush.
Decisive British victory and much fun!   

The Command system can be hugely frustrating but generally it adds that 'fog of war' and realistic uncertainty that I (& other dedicated Commander players) love so much.
Great to hear you are having fun 

It's what converted me over to these rules. Recreating the battles around Sidi Rezegh. Lots of fun failing to get all the British Armour to co-ordinate and finally when I got an armoured regiment overlooking the airfield and in a dominant position to start destroying the Panzers. double 6 then 8 and they charged instead. Felt I had inadvertently recreated history. Never feel you are completely in control and that is how it should be.

I entirely agree - having played GWSH which has an entirely different approach to C&C(and in that context a very good one, I think), I was sceptical about BKCIV until I played it (desert war 1941, British v Italians) but was won over completely by the stop-start-never-quite-know-what-will-happen-next character  of it, which I felt was v close to the reality I had read about.