RE: [NetEpic ML] Re: Question regarding armies

From: <nils.saugen_at_...>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:28:30 +0100

Hi,

There where really only one area with fairly large scale warfaring in
Norway. That was in the Narvik area in the north of Norway.

North of Narvik the only standing force of some sice in the entire contry
was stationed, namely the 6th divison (they where posted there because of
fear of an russian invasion in the late thirties. ref. the Finnish winter
war). The Germans landed parts of a gebigsjäger divison in Narvik and
quiclky seiced the town. The winter of 39/40 was a particular fierce one,
and the gremans had to fight both aganist the climate and overwelming allied
forces (30000+ british, french, polish and norwegian troops, against 2000 +
germans) ,the germans were forced back from the town towards the swedish
border, they would have been defeated but they where saved by the bell. Just
as the allied forces where about to make the final assault, the gremans
defeatded the resistance in the south of Norway and the allied forces
withdrew to England.

Nils

-----Original Message-----
From: Eivind Borgeteien [mailto:eivind.borgeteien_at_...]
Sent: 20. desember 2000 14:08
To: netepic_at_egroups.com
Subject: [NetEpic ML] Re: Question regarding armies


Hi
Just a note on the Norway-thing. I dont think WW2 Norway is good
suited for epic battles as there where mainly skirmishes here.

Many old norwegian tend to overrate the resistance in 1940, but
concidering the call to arms went out per SNAIL MAIL the very day we
got attacked, and the fact that the guns where stored in one place
and the end-pices in another made any attempt to mobilize quite
difficult.

I think Norway is more suited for conversions to 40K, but somewhat
later came the combined arm raid on Måløy. This could perhaps be
interesting....

Hmm....

I will see what I can dig up.....


Eivind


--- In netepic_at_egroups.com, deaconblue3_at_j... wrote:
> wow I can t beleave you left out Normandy that would be the best
>
> -->I have a problem trying to recreate this in Epic. Not that it
would
> be a bad scenario or anything, just the whole naval invasion bit.
It's
> not really covered under the rules (even though I mentioned Inchon
as a
> possibility). If we could come up with a way to simulate that
aspect,
> there's be even more possibilities available. Salerno, Anzio,
Gallipoli
> (I mentioned that didn't I?), Norway 40, the Island Campaign in the
> Pacific, and so on. Another that I thought of would be the
Tannenburg
> Forrest (WW1), pitting IG vs Chaos. Lots of possibilities...
>
> Josh R
>
> Minister for General Mayhem
> "Don't let the bastards grind you down." Gen. Joseph Stilwell



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