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Six Day's War - Sabresquadron

Last nights game at York House, Stoney Stratford. Mark Spratt, Brian Shipp and I were Israeli, while Dave & Dave were Arabs (Egyptians (their commander-in-chief was bizarrely absent).

The Egyptians had deployed in depth, a dug in battalion of infantry and a company of T-34s, somewhere in the Sinai Desert, defending a road junction at a settlement. There was a broad belt of mines, a road blocked road and a few rises between them and an Israeli armoured battalion of two Centurion companies and an infantry company, backed up by engineers and a Sherman flail tank!
The Israeli forces sent one tank company straight down the road to engage the tanks and infantry, while the infantry, engineers and second tanks set off left.
The Egyptian T-34s, dug in in a commanding rise, were eliminated by Israeli artillery and long range tank fire.
The engineers took heavy losses from Eigyptian artillery crossing the minefield, but being valiant professionals only broke AFTER the job was done. This allowed the Israeli tanks to pour through the gap, ignoring the Egyptian infantry company to their front, skirt around and break into the Egyptian rear.
The Egyptians hustled four platoons of T-54s, that had arrived as reinforcements, to deal with the threat, but lost three platoons to Israeli long range tank fire, in exchange for one lost Centurion!
That was enough, with the Egyptian foot disintergrating from fire from the other Centurion company, the Egyptians turned tail and fled! 
Israeli losses: engineer platoon, six centurions, one infantry squad.
Egyptian losses: 7 T-34s, 7 T-54s, 4 infantry platoons.


Initial Egyptian positions



Engineers clearing the minefield, Marks's tanks begin their rampage


Our left hook

The Egyptian collapse

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