Danish Wargamers' Crete 1941 Game Part Two

A second selection of shots from the Crete 1941 game played by the Danish wargamers in August 2011.

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Setting up the Crete 1941 Game Part 2

Here are all of the towns and villages featured in the Crete 1941 game.  The last shots show some of the units prepared for the game.  We made all of the buildings for the game.  Several of the terrain features appear in Diane's Wargame Widow articles in Battlegames Magazine.

Outskirts of Chania on the left hand table.

Half way up the left hand table is small village.

Another shot of the village.

Part of Prison Valley and the edge of Galatas. 

Galatas which saw heavy fighting in the real battle and in the game.

The Prison.

Maleme village.

Hill 107.

Another small village.

Part of Maleme airfield.

Tavronitis Bridge.

Looking down towards Maleme.

Prison Valley.

Top of the Chania table.

Part way down the Chania table.

Some of the Greek and Allied units.

More allies and their artillery.

German units, mainly mountain troops.

German glider troops.

German paratroopers.

I'll be posting up some shots of the bigger version of the game with all the extra units and terrain.

Setting up the Crete 1941 Game Part 1

For our test week with guests Joe Dever, Jervis Johnson, Dave Ryan and Theofanis Kalevras we kicked off proceedings with the test playing of our Crete 1941.  The majority of the units were ready and most of the terrain done - we were a year ahead of the official opening of Wargame Holidays (www.wargameholidays.com).
The game was great and worked really well, but it showed us we needed some extra German units (more paras) and needed to get more gliders, Ju52s and German aircraft.

The set up looking from the Tavronitiis River towards Maleme airfield and Hill 107.

Looking across towards the airfield.

The RAF camp at Maleme and Hill 107.

Looking down Prison Valley and towards Galatas.

Prison Valley.

View of Hill 107.

Looking along Prison Valley.

Across the end of Prison Valley towards Chania.

Another shot looking out towards Chania, the far table edge is sea.

An early shot of table before extra terrain features.

Looking towards Chania before all the terrain is down.

One of the vineyards.

Outskirts of Chania.

A better view of the Chania table.

Same view..

More shots of the villages of towns soon