Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
I'm reading Anthony Beevor's book on Crete.
MAN the Brits just could not get out of their own way at that point in the war. "Let's go help Greece! Whoops, that didn't work, we gotta evacuate. Let's defend Crete - hell, we even have Ultra intercepts telling us the time and place! Whoops, the leadership at Maleme botched it up and the Germans are airlanding in force - we gotta evacuate."
Dudes. Head. Out of. Ass. Please.
AT ANY RATE. Several thoughts:
* Best Crete Scenario? I haven't played all 71(!) that the ASL Scenario Archive tells me are there, but my own personal favorite is T15 The Akrotiri Peninsula. The German glider-borne force is chock fulla Fallschirmjager goodness, including a 9-2 and a 10-2. How do you make scenarios with -2 leaders less brittile? GIVE 'EM TWO.
* Looking back with fondness on the Operation Merkur map I did way back in the day. Actually not as awful as I'd expect. Would love to update it to modern standards.
* Does any Crete scenario invoke armed civilian action via SSR? Certainly the widespread tales of Cretan Yayas with kitchen knives are perhaps a TAD overblown, but at least according to Beevor, them Cretans wasted no time getting out into the olive groves and hunting down the invaders in a mass 1941 version of Get Off My Lawn. I'm wondering if an Urban Guerillas type of SSR might work here - use a high SAN and let Partisan 127s and Heroes (skip the leaders) pop up onboard.
MAN the Brits just could not get out of their own way at that point in the war. "Let's go help Greece! Whoops, that didn't work, we gotta evacuate. Let's defend Crete - hell, we even have Ultra intercepts telling us the time and place! Whoops, the leadership at Maleme botched it up and the Germans are airlanding in force - we gotta evacuate."
Dudes. Head. Out of. Ass. Please.
AT ANY RATE. Several thoughts:
* Best Crete Scenario? I haven't played all 71(!) that the ASL Scenario Archive tells me are there, but my own personal favorite is T15 The Akrotiri Peninsula. The German glider-borne force is chock fulla Fallschirmjager goodness, including a 9-2 and a 10-2. How do you make scenarios with -2 leaders less brittile? GIVE 'EM TWO.
* Looking back with fondness on the Operation Merkur map I did way back in the day. Actually not as awful as I'd expect. Would love to update it to modern standards.
* Does any Crete scenario invoke armed civilian action via SSR? Certainly the widespread tales of Cretan Yayas with kitchen knives are perhaps a TAD overblown, but at least according to Beevor, them Cretans wasted no time getting out into the olive groves and hunting down the invaders in a mass 1941 version of Get Off My Lawn. I'm wondering if an Urban Guerillas type of SSR might work here - use a high SAN and let Partisan 127s and Heroes (skip the leaders) pop up onboard.