Re: Question regarding armies

From: <eivind.borgeteien_at_...>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:14:27 -0000

Yupp, and our sweedish "brothers" in the east made their
railwaysystem available for german troop transport. Some old
norwegians actually still hate the sweedes for that.

Guess they are the ones pissing in the ale....


Eivind
--- In netepic_at_egroups.com, nils.saugen_at_s... wrote:
> 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_i...]
> 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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