Morning has broken on Oct. 25, 1917 after a stormy night in the mountains on the border of Italy and Slovenia. The Tolmein Offensive has begun; the 12th Battle of the Isonzo looms on the horizon. You are Erwin Rommel, a 25-year-old German Oberleutnant serving in the Württemberg Mountain Battalion, a unit of crack mountain troops. Having proven your abilities in the field, you have been appointed to the battalion staff and have been placed in command of your own detachment.
After bringing you up to meet him on the foothills of a huge mountain called Hevnik, your commanding officer orders you to sally forth as the advance guard of the battalion. The enemy
