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The Afrika Korps was down to 40 tanks ready to be committed and Rommel ordered the relief of the frontier garrisons.[51] On 24 November the Afrika Korps and Ariete division headed for Sidi Omar, causing chaos and scattering the mainly rear echelon support units in their path, splitting XXX Corps and almost cutting off XIII Corps. Rommel hoped to relieve the siege of Bardia and pose a large enough threat to the British rear echelon to complete the defeat of Operation Crusader.[note 17] On 25 November, 15th Panzer set off north-east for Sidi Azeiz and found the area empty and were constantly attacked by the Desert Air Force. South of the border the 5th Panzer Regiment of the 21st Panzer attacked the 7th Indian Brigade at Sidi Omar and were repulsed by the 1st Field Regt RA, firing over open sights at a range of 500 metres (547 yd); a second attack left the 5th Panzer Regiment with few operational tanks.[53] The rest of 21st Panzer had headed north east, south of the border, to Halfaya.

17) His decision was based on the fact that the 7th Armoured Division had been defeated, but he ignored intelligence reports of British supply dumps lying on his path on the border and this was to cost him the battle. As Oberstleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, the chief of staff of the Afrika Korps said after the war, "If we had known about those dumps we could have won the battle."[52]
Having read this and other accounts by Brits of Crusader it would seem that there were two enormous supply dumps moved up on the 18th of November to support the British offensive and had Rommel heeded reports and seized them they could have cut the British off of supply and pretty much won the operation in one fell swoop.

So what if that happened and Operation Crusader was crushed by having lost its supply dumps and much of the forces used were captured, while Toburk remained besieged? IOTL Crusader badly wore down the Axis forces and pushed them back eventually to El Agheila southwest of Benghazi. Here Rommel would be maintained on the Egyptian border into 1942 having gained massive supplies from the British and retained the battlefield, thus having gained all the damaged/wrecked AFVs for both sides and kept Tobruk from being relieved. This would be huge, as the British lost over 800 AFVs, but were able to repair all but 276 due to keeping the battlefield. Meanwhile the 340 Axis AFV losses were writeoffs due to being left behind, leaving Rommel with only 40 'runners' by December. The Axis also lost some 300 aircraft left behind in various states of repair. Also some 12,000 men were lost in border garrisons on the Libyan-Egyptian border that had to be left behind when Rommel retreated and Rommel's losses in manpower would probably be lower due to an early victory in late November/early December.

What are the political ramifications of that? Would the British drop Auchinleck as they did Wavell after the failure of Battleaxe, or would Cunningham go instead? Militarily what would it mean for the British come 1942? Would Toburk be successfully stormed and then Rommel having a chance to successfully invade Egypt in early 1942 rather than having to fight the Battle of Gazala as per OTL? The captured British supplies and the early 1942 suppression of Malta would make Spring 1942 a much more well supplied chance to invade Egypt and having mauled the 8th army in November/December they'd be quite vulnerable to attack. Thoughts?
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