I just have to share this one with you guys.
Yesterday evening we played Europe and I was UK and France. The French home guard rolled terribly (in the first round of defensive die rolls I only hit one out of twelve!). But my French destroyer near Madagascar moved north to the Red Sea. After a few turns Italy was on a roll and captured Egypt and Jordan. The turn after that the Italians moved through the Suez and attacked my DD with 1 DD, 1CL, 1 TR with 1 inf and 1 art and a fighter. The land units were to invade Sudan. My DD killed each and every unit and survived! 44 Italian IPC on the bottom of the Red Sea.
A second wave of attacks moved 2 DD and a TAC to avenge their countrymen. I killed the 2 DD’s but was sunk by the TAC. That is by far the most useful action of the French so far and it really hurt the Italians. It halted their advance so that the Brits from South Africa could take Sudan a little easier (without the extra art and inf) and from there threaten Egypt. Because of that DD Italy was on the defensive instead of the attack.
We gave the captain and the crew a posthumus the Légion d’Honneur.