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General information | |
Date | 1941 |
Theatre | North Africa |
Belligerents | Germany vs GB |
Game Type | Conquest |
Style | Infantry vs Infantry |
Flags | Maleme Aerodrome Chania Suda Bay Hill 107 British Rear Guard |
On 20 May 1941, the German Fallschirmjägers are preparing the first airborne invasion to the Island of Crete under the code-name Unternehmen Merkur ("Operation Mercury"). The Battle of Crete was unprecedented in three respects: it was the first-ever mainly airborne invasion, it was the first time the Allies made significant use of intelligence from the deciphered German Enigma code and it was the first time invading German troops encountered mass resistance from a civilian population. In light of the heavy casualties suffered by the parachutists, Adolf Hitler forbade further large scale airborne operations. However, the Allies were impressed by the potential of paratroopers, and started to build their own airborne divisions.
The map Crete is a hilly island neabry the town Chania and the Maleme Aerodrome. The Germans must capture five flags, located in numerous places. The Germans may make use of the Gigant transport aircrafts, to let fly over their fallschirmjägers and tanks to the mainland. However, the British defend Crete with light and medium tanks, suchs as the Matilda II, and with a Bofors battery on the hill. It is bether for the Germans that the fallschirmjägers capture the Bofors battery, by jumping from the plane. When the Bofors battery is captured, German tanks can be placed on ground with the support of the Luftwaffe with Stuka's and with fighter aircrafts.
In FHSW version 0.62 the German airfield up north was expanded.
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