Part 25: Turn 21: 1500 22nd May

Game Turn 21: 1500, 22nd May

The 1 FJR continues its assault on Heraklion, with house to house fighting getting closer and closer to the docks. The Greeks are unable to do much against the Germans, however, and more Greeks are forced to surrender.



Generalmajor Meindl, commanding the LLSR, is taken out by a sniper near the town of Modion, while directing LLSR troops on their assault on 5th Brigade: another in a long list of dead or lost officers for the Germans.

More Germans get cleared up in Rethymnon, although the same AT gun that gave the Aussies so much trouble is still holding strong. In Heraklion, resistance in the east is left to one company on the coast, and troops are already starting to swing towards Heraklion in order to stop the German assault there. More light mortars near Modion makes the paratroopers of KG Ramcke duck in their hideouts.



Mortars now target the vulnerable artillery of 5th Brigade, knocking out several of the guns and suppressing the guarding infantry. The scratch 3rd Company takes this opportunity to attack, and although they take light casualties from the gunners, they manage to take out even more artillery pieces.



The 5th Brigade attempts to fire back but their diminished size makes all fire ineffective, and no casualties are inflicted on the LLSR troops facing them. Some fire from the GJR 100 also seems to add little but noise to the action. Some artillery pieces, both 7th Flieger Division and 5th Gebirgs Division, do finally land, however, providing some much needed firepower to the mountain troops.



The 3 FJR, showing that they still have some ammunition to expend, fires back at the MNDBO troops surrounding them, causing some casualties but not seriously hampering the mixed brigade.

The GJR 100, still fresh, keeps pouring accurate long-range fire on the mixed 10th Brigade and 4th Brigade troops, causing the whippet tanks especially to stand still due to the volume of fire incoming.



2 FJR in Rethymnon shows some signs of life, but in their weakened state, most of the fire is ineffective, with only the MG company out in the west dealing any casualties at all.