Historical Campaign Battle of Crete.Phase Two

Historical Campaign Battle of Crete.Phase Two In the early misty morning, after our forces in the North East captured the airfield, our Company was tasked to capture the two villages and cut off the enemy forces retreating from the Airfield. We advanced towards the airstrip to cut off the enemy planes from taking off. Airstrip was covered with high bushes and hard to attack, but we managed to clear it and destroy enemy Planes, Tanks and Vehicles. With first objective done and mist almost gone, we advanced towards the Abdera village, forming on the hills west of the village. With supporting fire from vehicles both Platoons advanced into the village where heavy fighting broke out, enemy had multiple entrenched positions and AT guns. Fighting was intense but we managed to drive them out and establish defense in it. When we reorganized and assembled all of our forces we moved to the third objective, precicesly highest hill overlooking it. Pumas and Sdkfz 222s opened fire on the city while the 1st Platoon advanced trough the woods on the west taking out enemy AT positions. In that time 2nd Platoon approached through the small ravine and got into the town and buildings surrounding church, one of the strongpoints in the city. Again heavy fighting broke out but we managed to seize the village and capture British troops and local fighters. Locals were executed by the firing squad to send a message to anyone planing to opose the German units. Operation successful. Player Count: 68 Men lost to the enemy: 208 Men lost to friendly fire: 6 Ground vehicles lost: 4 Air vehicles lost: 0 Enemy combatants killed: 319 Enemy ground vehicles destroyed: 4 Enemy air vehicles destroyed: 2