Aug I 36
Insurgent Player Turn
Single regiments screen the Loyalist units in Algerciras and Pontevdra while a bunch of weak units converge around Zaragoza. Efforts continue to hook up the rail lines. A security lll secures Guadix; the Loyalists in Granada will be cut off from the rest of Loyalist Spain The Mixed T unit brings across more troops from Morroco and a naval transport bring in a regiment from the Canaries. Low odds attacks are made to try to capture key rail junctions. A strong stack from Sevilla and the 2LE lll attack Cordoba but are repulsed despite air support (2:1 -1 = AR). Units from Zamora and Valladolid are unsuccessful in an attack on Salamanca as a Loyalist Bre. XIX from Madrid provides DAS (1:1 0 = AS). At Gijon, troops brought by ship from Galicia and supported by NGS take the city (3:2 0 = DR Rolled a 6!).
Loyalist Player Turn
Units continue to move along rail lines to hook up the tranportation net. Units are scraped up for a counterattack on Gijon. The Insurgent fleet had scurried back to El Ferol, a mistake allowing the Loyalists to be the ones to get NGS. The city is retaken with some losses (4:1 0 = HX). Units in Zaragoza try to take out the strong stack opposing them with no luck even with the mech lll (2:1 +1 = AS). An insurgent art lll is destroyed in the mountains NE of Madrid with the help of GS by the Bre. XIX (5:1 -2 = DH). Another attack in the mountains just south of Teruel also benefits from GS, this time by Vildebeests flying from Alicante. The defenders are pushed back into the town (5:1 -2 = DR).
Aug II 36
Insurgent Player Turn
Supply problems crop up. The rail line from Burgos to Calatayud hasn’t yet been connected, leaving all Insurgent units in Aragon, Navarra, and the southern part of Euzkadi out of supply. Several other pockets of units on both sides are also U-1, particularly in Estrenadura, where units are still basically scattered around with no real front line.
The 2 LE III is used to form the Van XX. Units continue to be brought to Mainland Spain from Africa by boat & plane. The rail line to Catalayud is finally hooked up; the units in the upper Ebro valley will be back in supply. Aviles is abandoned but the wooded rough hex SW of Gijon is occupied. Algeraciras is taken (5:1 -1 = DE) and Cordoba as well, though with some losses (3:1 -1 = EX).
Loyalist Player Turn
Several point cities are occupied without opposition (Aviles, Don Benito, Almendralejo, Aguilas). NW of Aguilas a joint PA-Anarchist attack on a single Bdr III is launched, with the ultimate goal of pushing on to Guadix to hook up with forces in Granada, goes bad as militia units refuse to attack despite recieving GS. The artillery still manages to push back the Insurgents but does not advance (4:1 -1 = DE). Teruel is taken (8:1 -1 = DE). A big attack into wooded rough terrain SW of Gijon is a success (6:1 – 2 = DE). Two attacks are launched on the Insurgent units screening Zaragoza. NE of the city, an attack by units coming up from the south is a success (6:1 0 = DE) but an attack from within the city is a disaster as half the militia fails to take part (3:1 – 1 = AR).
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