Heights of Frustration: The Battles for Longstop Hill, December 1942 and April, 1943

Heights of Frustration: The Battles for Longstop Hill is a moderate complexity level solitaire play game on the battles for the crucial heights that barred the Allied advance on Tunis in North Africa. Following their defeat at El Alamein and the Operation Torch invasion in Algeria and Morocco, Rommel’s Afrika Korps was in headlong retreat to Tunisia. German and Italian forces were also being landed at the port of Tunis to reinforce the Afrika Korps in an attempt to salvage the situation and perhaps even win back the initiative in North Africa. The last defensible position barring the way to Tunis was the position north of the Medjerda River near Medjez-el-Bab that the Allies had nicknamed Longstop Hill. The German-occupied position was actually a series of hills and ridges that dominated the river valley’s roads and rail line that the Allies needed to take in order to advance and take Tunis. The first Allied attack in December was hastily launched and resulted in a costly Allied defeat. The second Allied attack the following April was much larger and led to an Allied breakthrough, the swift capture of Tunis and surrender of the entire German and Italian force in North Africa. Can you do as well or better? Game Scale. Allied units are companies. German units are KG of 150-180 men and tank units represent 10-12 vehicles. An inch on the map is about 100 yards. Each turn represents 1 day of time. —description from the publisher