After Battle Platamon Chapter*
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Anzac vs Germans*

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April 1941*

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Scenario Design: Pyros Lambert*
Map Design: Pyros Lambert*
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Primary Objectives:*
Deploy and then select ONLY one of the three paths in order to be redirected to the next mission:*
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1_. If you select the Maximum Reinforcements you will be awarded 50 extra core points and you will score a Decisive Loss (0 + 1 next scenario = 1 campaign points).*
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2._ If you select the Limited Reinforcements you will be awarded 25 extra core points and you will score a Marginal Victory (2 + 1 next scenario = 3 campaign points).*
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3._ If you select the 0 Extra Points (continue your mission) you will be awarded 0 extra core points and you will score a Decisive Victory (3 + 3 next scenario = 6 campaign points).*
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NOTES:*
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For normal level players I strongly advise you to choose the first option and receive the extra 50 points core force.*
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This is a 1-turn Path-selection scenario (deploy, move to the appropriate VP path and hit END TURN)*
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Historical Background*
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After Platamon *
(text from www.nzetc.org)*
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The great surprise of the fighting at Platamon apart from the size of the enemy force committed there had been the skill and ingenuity of the German alpine troops in making their way through what had been considered practically impassable country and outflanking the defence, and this at once raised the problem of where to attempt to fight another rearguard action to hold them up. Though the Vale of Tempe itself was narrow and steep and might be defended against tanks, the alpine troops would surely work their way over the lower slopes of Mount Olympus to cut off the rearguard. The corps in which the New Zealand Division was fighting had been renamed Anzac Corps on 12 April—a sentimental gesture—and the Commander Corps Royal Artillery (CCRA), Brigadier C. A. Clowes, had come forward to see for himself how serious the situation was. Anzac Corps Headquarters was worried about the unexpectedly heavy pressure along the coast, which threatened to outflank the whole corps position.*
Clowes and Macky discussed the matter and decided to try to hold the western or upstream end of the Pinios Gorge.*
The gunners meanwhile had to get their guns across the river. A bridge near the mouth had already been demolished and a pontoon that was the only alternative was too light to carry the guns, though it could take 15-cwt trucks. These were therefore ferried across and the guns manhandled through the river. The only road through the gorge ran along the southern bank and the light trucks towed the guns along it. The quads and gun-limbers and the Bren carriers could not get across either way and had to venture along the single-track railway, running five miles along the sleepers, through two tunnels, and over the railway bridge at Tempe at the other end of the gorge. This bridge was then demolished.*
By the evening of 16 April 21 Battalion and A Troop were at Tempe and began to prepare a defence of the western end of the gorge. Clowes had pointed out how vital it was to hold up the enemy here until the 19th and steps had been taken to reinforce this rearguard; but the situation remained critical.*
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