"Operation Mercury campaign - Coup de Main at Maleme" Topic

…Airfield, with BG: Tobruk

"This is the start of new BG campaign, in which we'll be playing out part of the Operation Mercury, around Maleme airfield, Hill 107, Pirgos and Palantias. The defenders had already deployed their forces on the campaign map and I then dropped my first wave of paratroops, elite troops from 1st Sturm Regiment, in. From the campaign map, we'll determine where the games are and what forces are around for them, and what might be reinforcements.

This was game 1, my direct landing to seize the airfield by a coup de main strike. It was just 300 pts, a 'squad' game, on a 4x4 board, which was largely empty (as the airfield was mostly just open runway). The New Zealand defenders were largely dug-in on their perimeter, as the gliders and paras dropped in all around…"

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Armand

Maleme Air Base and Operation Mercury were on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean. The Germans launched several more or less simultaneous airborne attacks on the island, of which Maleme was one of the more successful. At least one assault resulted in the entire German force being destroyed.
That said, I need to give this some thought, since I have a small WWII Greek army and several Greek regiments helped the New Zealanders defend Crete.

Grelber

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Armand