"Mouadammiye, Syria, 18 June 1941" Topic

scenario and AAR over on my blog:
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Great AAR – those Punjabi troopers were tough as a coffin nail!

Unfortunately after this action they ended up in a world of hurt at Mezze (scenario to come).

Thanks for posting another great Syria WW2 AAR. When I saw the French heavy stuff I thought they would win for sure. But the gallantry of the Punjabis gave them the day, just as in real life!

Punjabis have ALWAYS been good! Says Brit.

Thanks, in the piece i read about this small action, it did note the Punjabi managed to knock out a couple of French light tanks using grenades. The main mistake the French made (in the game) was not supporting the tanks with even a couple of infantrymen each, these may have been able to keep the gallent Panjabs away from their comrades.

Wouldn't the 2" mortar normally fire smoke rather than HE? I know they did have HE rounds, but usually in very limited numbers.

Richard, great battle as always. Syria is on my list of projects.
Cheers

Joe

If you look at he and smoke round production for the 2" mortar that presumably bears some relation to rounds used.

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The mortar only fired 5 bombs hardly over the top :) In this case we have to assume the Punjabi were more interested in the mortar as an offensive manner (lobbing bombs) rather than throwing smoke to create cover.

Weirdly even though phased out with the arrival of more modern under-barrel grenade launchers, etc The 2" got a bit of a revival and was brought back and used quite a bit in Afghanistan as it could lob bombs from prone positions better than modern types. I had a long conversation with a Para about it during and airshow in Swansea, UK.