> [quote=Sturmgeschutz]
> We're a platoon going up against hundreds. Even if we secure major success in our little counter attack, it's a bit like the Third Reich invading Russia - sooner or later we'll get bogged down by their superior numbers, take losses we can't afford, and then inevitably we'll be retreating all the way back to Heraklion with our tail between our legs.
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> There's Rethymnon that needs to be considered too, which would under the same situation as here, and the Rethymnon-Heraklion corridor was in action shortly after Chania was being attacked by the Germans.
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> I suspect the current setting of the RP takes place between the two cities in the Rethymnon-Heraklion sector, but it's hard to tell because the crude map is very, very crude. I can't tell if the two line that's running east-west is a road or a river, which makes attempting to orient everything I'm doing especially awkward and difficult (and I believe it is showing in the quality of my posts and length of my last).
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> I found a landmark I could use to orient myself while researching the area but in true style I lost it. There's only so many ways I can describe the same scrub-land hills before getting myself bored and lost.
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> Though I do suppose I could add goats and amuse myself with that.

"What Myles was looking at was the Commonwealth's first and perhaps last line of defence against the German's westerly assault. Behind the line, about two miles or so, sat Heraklion. The officer winced as he saw the German planes make their dives, dropping incendiary charges and unleashing their cannons on whatever took their interest. "

Was mentioned in my first post, stating we're directly WEST of HERAKLION. We're two platoons confined to a smaller area of operations, as opposed to the whole front. I did this to retain focus. There's also an attack ongoing on the east side of the town, near the airfield. 

Rethymno is so many miles to the West that I'm not worrying about that yet. Heraklion must be defended before we can start dealing with German successes elsewhere. 

Next time, don't drop miles out of the damned zone. 

You want to stop playing the Mad Max of the Crete wasteland? Maybe happen upon Freyburg + staff in his command car on some road, as he travels between local headquarters. Dat way you got a uniform if you want it, a car, maps and all kinds of other stuff ANNNNNNNND deal yet another blow to Allied command. Maybe even use the radio to try and advertise a better landing zone? I don't know. Either way, stop chasing goats.

And the grey line represents what passes as a road in Crete, so probably a hardened dust trail.