El Alamein '42

 

11th in the premiere WWII series

El Alamein '42 covers the epic desert battles of 1942 in North Africa, when Rommel and the Afrika Korps were at their high water mark after the capture of Tobruk. Turning the Afrika Korps back east, Rommel was to be denied the ultimate victory in the desert at a lonely, unheard of railroad stop known as El Alamein.

Features:

- 1 kilometer hexes, 2 hour turns, with a longest Panzer Campaign master map measuring approximately 780 x 220 kilometers.

- Over 3,200 units represent the German and Allied forces in this classic series of desert battles, mainly at battalion and company level.

- Players control tank, reconnaissance, artillery, infantry, parachute, glider, engineer, antitank, flak, rocket, headquarters, and a wide variety of other specialized units.

- 34 historically based scenarios are included, with several "what-if" scenarios including an airborne attack on Malta. There are several campaign scenarios, with alternative versions that include extra forces for one or both sides. Other scenarios include Ruweisat Ridge, Bir Hacheim, and The Cauldron.

- El Alamein '42 can be viewed and played in either 2d or 3d mode. A new "quick play" feature allows the computer AI's turn to resolve ten times the previous speed, allowing for much faster play.

- Supports single person play against the computer, two-person hot-seat, two-person Play-By-E-Mail, and multiplayer network play over LANs and the Internet Comes with Main Program, full-featured Scenario Editor, and Order of Battle Editor Complete on-line Help documentation plus on-line printable documentation in Microsoft Word format.

Minimum Requirements

- 1 GHz Pentium CPU

- 512 MB RAM

- 300 MB Hard Drive

- Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft)

Panzer Campaigns Series Summary

 

Selected Bibliography (with more to come)

The Australian War Memorial has digitized copies of Australia's official records for both World War One and World War Two available online. The following link will take you to their website.

Tobruk and El Alamein

To Benghazi   -(Operation Compass to about March 1941)