Galatas Bayonet Charge
Crete, May 25, 1941
On May 20, 1941 the Germans launched Operation Mercury, the airborne invasion of Crete. Over the following four days 
they secured the Maleme airfield and steadily pushed the defending forces back as they gained a grip on the island. 
Crack German paratroops and mountain infantry, pushing strongly along the Galatas Line, finally forced the New Zealand 
Composite Battalion (an ad hoc battalion formed from anti tank gunners, engineers and support troops) and 18 Battalion 
from their positions around the village of Galatas, seizing it shortly before dusk on the 25th and thus threatening the 
entire Galatas line. The New Zealand 23rd Battalion, in reserve, was called upon to help and arrived about 7 p.m. With 
a German breakthrough pending immediate action was called for. A quick run in and out of the village by two Vickers VI 
light tanks of the 3rd Hussars with guns blazing was all the reconnaissance time allowed. The tanks returned with the 
information that the place was "stiff with Jerries". One of the tanks' commanders and a gunner had been wounded and with 
no replacements, two men attached to HQ Company of the 23rd but with no previous tank experience volunteered to step in. 
At 8:10, with the sun setting, the order was given to attack. As the tanks moved back up the road towards the village, C 
and D companies of the 23rd Battalion, with fixed bayonets, fell in along both sides of the road. Joined by elements of 
the recently ousted 18th Battalion intent on revenge, the 20th and other units, the New Zealanders swept forward in what 
has been called "one of the greatest bayonet charges of the Second World War". 

British(ANZAC) : -->  [- : German

Scenario Length: 8 Game Turns - LOS (2Hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: ASL'Men [ A Battlefront WWII Scenario ]
