AFRIKA KORPS FORCE

Your Force must contain at least one Formation, and There exists a real danger that our friend Rommel is becoming a kind of magical or bogey-man to our troops, who are
may contain as many Formations as you like. talking far too much about him. He is by no means a superman, although he is undoubtedly very energetic and able.
— British General Claude Auchinleck on Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel
TANK INFANTRY
FORMATIONS FORMATIONS
Under the leadership of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin of the Afrika Korps had faith that Rommel would reverse the
Rommel, the Deutsches Afrika Korps (or DAK) trounced the situation and lead them to victory once again.
British Eighth Army time and time again. The ‘Desert Fox’, Despite being made up of whatever bits and pieces Rommel
as he became known, gained an almost mythical status as a could wrangle from a High Command focussed on the much
military genius to both friend and foe alike. bigger battles of the Eastern Front, the Afrika Korps grew
PANZER III PANZER IV 90TH LIGHT AFRICA Rommel owed his success to a combination of his own to be a powerful combat force. Starting with just 5. Leichte
TANK COMPANY TANK COMPANY RIFLE COMPANY RIFLE COMPANY
MG101 MG102 MG108 MG124 MG112 experience and hard-driving nature, and the superb troops Division (5th Light Division), Rommel built the Afrika Korps
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he commanded. Serving as a Leutnant in the First World
War, Rommel showed an aggressive style that led to
spectacular victories over forces much stronger than his own.
This style served him well in North Africa over twenty years
FALLSCHIRMJÄGER later, when he commanded Panzer Armee Afrika (Africa Tank
COMPANY
MG301 Army) against the numerically superior Eighth Army.
up to include 15. Panzer Division, 21.Panzer Division (a much
strengthened 5. Leichte Division), and 90. Leichte Afrika
Division (90th Light Africa Division, a motorised infantry
division). Panzer Armee Afrika also included 164.  Leichte
Afrika Division, the Ramcke Parachute Brigade, two Italian
armoured divisions, and six Italian infantry divisions.

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By the time of the Battle of Gazala in mid-1942, the Afrika
Korps, the German armoured component of Panzer Armee
Afrika, had been fighting in the desert for over a year and
AFRIKA KORPS SUPPORT UNITS was made up of battle-hardened veterans who had won
You may field one Support Unit from each box. almost every battle and expected to win more. Even after
their defeat in the Second Battle of El Alamein, the soldiers
Each panzer division fielded a regiment of Panzer III and
Panzer IV tanks and a regiment of infantry reorganised with
fewer men and extra anti-tank guns for the fighting in Africa.
The light Africa divisions had three infantry regiments, but
no tanks. All had a wide variety of powerful support from
self-propelled guns, artillery, reconnaissance, and aircraft.

ARTILLERY
ANTI-TANK ARMOUR RECONNAISSANCE RECONNAISSANCE ARTILLERY ARTILLERY OBSERVER INFANTRY

MARDER (7.62CM) TIGER SD KFZ 221 & 222 SD KFZ 221 & 222 10.5CM 10.5CM PANZER II OP FALLSCHIRM
TANK-HUNTER PLATOON HEAVY TANK PLATOON LIGHT SCOUT TROOP LIGHT SCOUT TROOP ARTILLERY BATTERY ARTILLERY BATTERY OBSERVATION POST PIONEER PLATOON
MG118 MG111 MG116 MG116
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MG120 MG120 MG121 MG309

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DIANA DIANA SD KFZ 231 SD KFZ 231 15CM (SF) LORRAINE 15CM BISON FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
TANK-HUNTER PLATOON TANK-HUNTER PLATOON HEAVY SCOUT TROOP HEAVY SCOUT TROOP SCHLEPPER INFANTRY GUN OBSERVATION
MG126 MG126 MG117 MG117 ARTILLERY BATTERY PLATOON POST
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MG119 MG127 MG313

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FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
MARDER II (7.5CM) FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
TANK-HUNTER PLATOON 7.5CM ARTILLERY
MG312 BATTERY
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MG311

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FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
10.5CM RECOILLESS
ANTI-TANK ANTI-TANK ANTI-AIRCRAFT AIRCRAFT BATTERY
MG316

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5CM TANK-HUNTER 8.8CM SD KFZ 10/4
PLATOON HEAVY AA PLATOON LIGHT AA PLATOON JU 87 STUKA
MG114 MG122 MG115 DIVE BOMBER FLIGHT
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MG123
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FALLSCHIRMJÄGER FALLSCHIRMJÄGER FALLSCHIRMJÄGER

5CM TANK-HUNTER 7.5CM TANK-HUNTER 2CM ANTI-AIRCRAFT
PLATOON PLATOON PLATOON
MG307 MG308 MG310
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FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
3.7CM TANK-HUNTER
PLATOON
MG306
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FORMATION SUPPORT ALLIED SUPPORT WILDCARD

You may field compulsory
Combat Units (with a
black box) from German
Formations from this
book and Eastern Front
as Support Units.
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You may field one
compulsory Unit from
a Italian Formation as
Support and one Italian
Formation as an Allied
Formation.

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