Friday, 7 February 2025

Crete 1941 in 20mm for Rapid Fire! rules: the German paratroopers


This is another old wish, being able to have a consistent force of German Fallschirmjäger for the beggining of the war. Masters Colin and Richard released sometime ago the great supplement Crete- the Airborne assault with all the information you need for the beggining of the battle, namely the arrival of the Sturm Regiment and many of the 7th Flieger division units. Later, hopefully, we can see this extended to include the Gebirgsjäger actions, which were the true victors of the battle. This group started decades ago with the Italeri Ju-52s, a sole Frontline Wargaming DFS 230 and more recently the Preiser Pioneers. In the last few months I managed to build all the rest, with the inspiration on the book: all artillery and support weapons were scratchbuilt in Evergreen plastics (the 50/81/105mm mortars, IG75mm, PAK 36s, Do Gerat rocket launcher, 75mm Geb. G 36 and the MMGs 34. The exceptions to this were the 20mm Flak gun (3d MiniGeneral), the BMW combo(Fujimi) and the Kettenkraftrad (S-models). All figures manning the support weapons and the artillery are all converted from the Airfix and Revell Fallschimjägers. All figures in the "rifle" companies suffered no conversion. The funniest thing to do was to copy in wood and BlueFoam the Frontline wargaming DFS 230, producing like this three more gliders. An excellent article on the tricky FJ artillery for Crete can be found at: https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2011/0

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