Just finished this scrap today as italians, bloody good scrap as well! Keeping the advancing Italians out of sight until all but the troops in the really narrow valley were in place and softening up with the 65mm (about as likely to kill entrenched crack soldiers as a water pistol) was the order of the day until about turn 15.
Then, after bringing one platoon from each company to the ridge to engage the enemy in a bit of a shoot out and get their heads down and landing some 75mm shells (much more like it!), got two platoons from each company to advance, along with the Panzerchens. The French did a good job of popping a few Italians, but with veteran status they held out in the simultaneous charge, and took the outer foxholes.
By turn 27 or so, the Foreign Legion surrendered en masse at the beginning of the turn to my bemusement. 80-20 final score, Italian 477 ok, 78 casualties, 20 kia. French 0 ok, 99 casualties, 23 kia, 28 captured.
I loved this scenario, it had a really colonial feel to it, which the fighting in East Africa at the start of the war essentially was. Wouldnt fancy being the French against a human opponent though- last stand of the Foreign Legion! Vive la france!