The "Casone del Partigiano", in the Rubizzano hamlet of San Pietro in Casale, is a building in which, during the Resistance, the partisans of the 2nd Paolo brigade met and found refuge.
The municipal territory was invested by the retreating German army between 18 and 19 April 1945.
On the morning of 19 April, reinforced by some members of the 4th Venturoli brigade, the men of the Paolo, under the command of Marcello Zanetti, set off from Casone along three routes to attack an enemy determined to defend the Galliera road, the main escape route towards the north.
On 21 April the partisans made contact with the first allied vanguards, while strong enemy contingents were barricaded in the town of San Pietro.
On the morning of 22 April, the English avant-garde reached the area south of San Pietro in Casale and an officer informed Zanetti that they would launch a bombardment on the town to definitively drive out the Germans.
In order to avoid such an operation, the partisans organized a complex attack on the enemy positions.
The battle lasted between the afternoon and evening of April 22nd and ended in the night with the evacuation of the town by the Germans.
During the fighting, 22 young people between the ages of 21 and 25, originally from San Pietro and neighboring towns, fell.
At dawn on April 23, the partisans entered the liberated town.
At sunset, the English entered San Pietro in Casale, already liberated.
| Italian Partisans | German | |
| Division 1 |
4 Squad Bases 1x |
3 Squad Bases - 10 Regular Infantry - 1 Machine Gun Crew |
| Division 2 |
4 Squad Bases 1x |
3 Squad Bases |
| Strategy Decks | Command 1 Morale 1 (shared) (remove 2x "Take Down The Beast") |
German Urban Warfare (remove "Flamethrower Support", "Nebelwerfer Assault", "Reich Propaganda", "Fliegerkorps VIII", "Stormwedge") Morale 1 (shared) (remove 2x "Take Down The Beast") |
| Starting Strategy Cards | - | - |
| Operations Cards | 018 Seize the Initiative 002 Heavy Fog (shared) remove on Round 2 (Status) |
013 Desperate Defenders 014 No surrender 002 Heavy Fog (shared) remove on Round 2 (Status) |
| Deployment Zone | Any hex on map 6A (south east) |
Any hex on map 5A (north west) |
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Setup first |
| Objective | Control the town center of San Pietro in Casale (objective marker) by the end of Round 5. | Prevent your opponent from reaching his goal. |
| Rounds | 5 | |
| Actions per turn | 3 | 3 |
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