Armored Knights North Africa: Operation Venezia

The German offensive to take Tobruk / May 27 - June 28, 1942

Armored Knights North Afrika - Operation Venezia allows you to plan and fight the battle that won Rommel Tobruk. It was a close and at the same time complete victory for Rommel. His forces made their way around the flank of the British Gazala Line and met with initial success. But after a few days the Germans found themsleves encircled by a strongly entrenched British Brigade, the 150th, which sat astride the German supply route. Rommel came close the throwing in the towel, within about a day, before clinching success by finally forcing the 150th Brigade to surrender first and open the supply route. Immediately after beating the 150th Brigade the Brtish armour decided to make a final effort to beat Rommel in the Cauldron. They failed and Rommel turned the tables on them. So much so that almost 90% of the remaining British armour was destroyed and gave Rommel his opportunity to take Tobruk and move past the Egyptian frontier wire and towards Alexandria.

All units modeled as battalions, companies/batteries. Hexes represent approximately 2km of terrain. Each turn represents 2 hours of ff daylight or 2-4 hours of night.

This game comes with: •Armored Knights North Afrika Rules •(9) 11x17 Scenario Cards •Numerous Player Aides and Examples •Game Turn Record Track for Venezia •Game Turn Record Track for Battleaxe •(4) Full Color Order of Battle Charts •Full Color Battleaxe Order of Battle Chart •Very Sturdy box •Approximately 1000 double sided unit counters and markers