Ill-conceived and ill-prepared, the Italian invasion of Greece quickly turned into a stalemate for the Italians. The initial advance was stopped and the Greeks started counterattacking on the 7th, against Italian soldiers ill-equipped for the weather and mountainous conditions. In Limni, near the Albanian-Greek border, a pocket of Italian resistance was still holding out on the 19th, with Italian soldiers jailing – for some obscure reason – the village schoolgirls.
Attacker: Greek (2/39th Evzone Regiment and Villagers of Limni)
Defender: Italian (23a Divisione Fanteria “Ferrara)
Early Greek losses to hot dice were soon replaced with breaks and eventual losses by the Italians. The Greeks still had a hard time of it, getting to the top of the hill around Turn 4, which limited how many partisans would appear in the town to help out the attacker. There's a neat dynamic with having to protect the prisoners, prevent the Greeks from getting to Level 3 on the hill, and also preventing them from entering the town and taking advantage of the high TEM afforded. For me, it came down to the last CC roll and a bad enough roll that the Italian Squad was only reduced, not killed, and thus they sealed the victory. Easily replayable, not too complex.
