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Scenario and AAR - Battle of Steamroller Farm, Tunisia 28 February 1943

Battle of Steamroller Farm , EL Aroussa, Tunisia 27-28th February 1943 The History Three days after the end of the battles at Kasserine Panzer Army Afrika opened Unternehmen OCHSENKOPF against the First Army intended to drive back the allies and lift the threat to Tunis. On 26 February, as part of as part of Unternehmen OCHSENKOPF, Panzers Panzer Regiment.7 and Jaegers of 2 Jaeger Battalion Herman Goring (Kampfgruppe Kleeberg) broke through the Allied Lines in the Mahmoud Gap south west of Goubellat and linked up with Hauptmann Schirmer's III./Fallschirmjäger Regiment 5. Moving Southwest they ran into No 6 Commando on the 27th February near a ridge of high ground nicknamed Steamroller farm by the British because of a large steamroller in the farmyard. On the 28th February a counterattack to reopen the road was led by the Major EWM Hadfield's Churchill tanks of "A" Squadron 51.R.T.R  with Major Windsor-Clive's No.3 Company (2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards) th