08. MAKNASSY PASS, 03/17/1943

TO: Commanding General.
SUBJECT: MAKNASSY PASS action.
  1. Your orders are to advance east along the southern part of the Eastern Dorsal with the aim of securing MAKNASSY and the MAKNASSY PASS. Meanwhile, other units are attacking southwest from GAFSA towards EL GUETTAR with the objective of meeting the British 8th Army somewhere along the coast. 
   2. Over the last few weeks British and French forces in Northern Tunisia have weathered a German offensive and the British 8th Army after surviving a battle around MEDENINE are preparing to assault the Mareth Line - your task here is important to the defeat of Axis forces in southern Tunisia.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE! The weather at the time of this offensive was bad, with a lot of rain and some flooding. For this scenario I have set the geographical area to Southern Europe so there will be more rain - if it does start snowing please think of it as a heavy rainstorm :)