After being decisively defeat at the Battle of Gazala, the 8th Army, now led by Claude Auchinleck,retreated eastwards into Egypt. Hopes to hold the Axis forces under Erwin Rommel at Mersa Matruh(26th to 28th June) were quickly dashed and the dispirited Allied forces pulled back to the El Alamein line. Rommel’s forces were buoyed by their rapid advance and fuelled by large quantities of captured Allied supplies.
Dance of War
With the fall of Mersa Matruh only days earlier, the game starts on July 1st 1942 with the leading elements of Panzerarmee Afrika catching up with the retreating forces of the British 8th Army near the rail station at El Alamein. Rommel believed one more successful attack would see the 8th Army broken and fleeing for the Nile Delta.
Dance Of War™ is a game recreating the first Battle of El-Alamein,1942.
Game Components
• One A1 map
• 286 15mm counters and markers
• 16 page rulebook
• Two Player Aid Cards (PAC) A4 containing most of the Charts and Tables.
