Tug Argan

Having realized that holding Tug Argan was essential to halting any invasion, British command poured all of its limited resources into its defense. A unit of the Black Watch was rushed to the village of Laferug (to the rear of the gap) late on 10 August by truck, and a brigade headquarters was established at nearby Barkasan. Meanwhile, those battalions already present entrenched themselves across the broad arc of the gap. 

The link to my planning document and Campaign AAR

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vcpci4t85rbo271/East%20Africa%201940%20CoC%20Campaign.docx?dl=0

Looking towards the gap 1940

On the British right were positioned three companies of the 3/15 Punjab Regiment, holding a group of southwest-facing strongpoints overlooking the rough wilderness beside the road. The British left was covered by another group of Indian troops, facing directly southward from atop the 'Punjab Ridge.'
The gap itself was manned by the more numerous Rhodesian line infantry. They sat upon a line of rocky knolls, named from north to south Black, Knobbly, Mill, Observation, and Castle Hills, positioned in a ragged diagonal echelon with 2,000–2,500 yard gaps between them across the mouth of the gap. 

Each was a miniature fortress, housing machine-gun nests surrounded by concentric rings of barbed wire. The linear pattern of the mounds however denied the British position meaningful depth, thereby increasing its vulnerability to individual Italian breakthroughs.

My three games will be: 
Attacking the Punjabi Strongpoints, 
Breakthrough against the Rhodesians and,
The Black Watch Rearguard.

1.  The Punjabi Ridge.

The Punjabis get a section and an MMG down, behind the wire.  I use cloth with a raised pattern to simulate the wire sections 

And a gun goes down, a really old gun.

The Italians lead with their armour

It looks like the Punjabi boys are in trouble.  The Italians have used maximum points here.  They had the option to go max on one table and in true style I rolled a one.

The Italian Officer leads a section out to one flank and kills off the gun crew.

Finding the gap in the wire the Italians flood into the post

The close quarter skirmish inside the post begins, but in reality its all over for the Punjabis.  I`m hoping that the Rhodesians and the Black watch can stop the Italian over run.