The game started on September 19, It ran for 16 hours straight, over a weekend. The game started on September 19, but the Germans decided that the sea was too rough to attempt a landing. The same happened the next day. The first two days of game time therefore consisted of air battles, movement of British units to the south coast, the launching of Operation Herbstreise, and embarkation of German units at the French Channel ports. The Luftwaffe bombed Britain's south coast and laid mines in the Harwich, Humber and Thames estuary waters.
The Germans landed their Herbstreise diversion force in Iceland and laid protective minefields. The British took full advantage of their intelligence coup the huge map only showed SE England and the two day delay by moving four more divisions to Saffron Walden, Newbury, Crowborough and Tunbridge Wells to bolster the nine already in East Anglia, Kent and Sussex.
On the afternoon of September 21, the wind dropped, and the forecast for the next day improved. The German protective minefields were finished, stretching out from the North Foreland. The first wave invasion fleets began to form up at dusk, and begin to cross.
They were not spotted by the British until 11pm, The Cromwell warning was issued half an hour later and the church bells rung , and at midnight the Home Fleet was ordered south.
The German attack was launched at dawn on 22 September and consisted of 8, airborne troops and 80, infantry landed in amphibious operations. Naval engagements were indecisive at this stage as the Royal Navy was still assembling its main destroyer fleet to attack. The larger ships of the Home Fleet including battleships , heavy cruisers and aircraft carriers were not to be committed due to their vulnerability to air attack and U-boats. The Germans managed to advance a dozen or so miles inland and even captured the ports of Folkestone and Newhaven but the docks at Folkestone had been thoroughly demolished by the British rendering them more or less unusable.
British and Commonwealth forces were moved to fully engage in the battle with the first counterattack on 23 September, halting the advance of the Germans towards Hastings and recapturing Newhaven.
German paratroops were also pinned down by long-range artillery and harassment by stay-behind forces. At this stage the Germans had few tanks and only light artillery ashore. An increasing shortage of ammunition was slowly forcing them back towards the sea. The Germans asked "Hitler" if the bombing of London could stop and the aircraft used to support the invasion.
The request was denied. By dusk on 23 September the Germans had 10 divisions ashore, but most were halted by counterattacks or awaiting supplies and reinforcements. The second wave of the German invasion was launched on the morning of 24 September, but only the short crossing from Calais and Dunkirk to Kent. At dawn on 24 September the second German landing, which was to include tanks and heavy artillery as well as supplies and men, was intercepted by a Royal Navy fleet of 17 cruisers and 57 destroyers plus Motor Torpedo Boats.
Some of the faster German ships broke away and headed for Folkestone, but the port was so badly damaged they could not unload. With the Royal Navy suffering only minor losses, the Home Fleet was ordered to stand by to sail for the English Channel. The German divisions ashore only had enough ammunition for 2 to 7 more days of fighting. Comments and reviews There is no comment nor review for this game at the moment.
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