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Is anybody aware of any board or computer games featuring Operation Herkules the Italo-German invasion of Malta? I checked BoardGameGeek but no joy. Thanks,

Long ago Avalon Hill published Air Assault on Crete, with a bonus Malta invasion.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304 ... malta-1942

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/194 ... sion-crete

https://theboardgamingway.com/mmps-oper ... pre-order/

Aurelian wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:14 pm Long ago Avalon Hill published Air Assault on Crete, with a bonus Malta invasion.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304 ... malta-1942

Thanks for that!

And in an ad banner above on the same page is this:

https://www.legionwargames.com/legion_MAL.html

Would not have found it without your direction. I searched under Herkules/ Hercules and not Malta.

Duck Doc wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:20 pm

Aurelian wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:14 pm Long ago Avalon Hill published Air Assault on Crete, with a bonus Malta invasion.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304 ... malta-1942

Thanks for that!

And in an ad banner above on the same page is this:

https://www.legionwargames.com/legion_MAL.html

Would not have found it without your direction. I searched under Herkules/ Hercules and not Malta.

You're welcome. I had the first one. I found the others by putting "invasion of Crete games" in a search engine.
There is a Vassal module for it. I figured, hey you might want a Crete game too.

and there is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUc9-fX8cDM

Aurelian wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:24 pm

Duck Doc wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:20 pm

Aurelian wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:14 pm Long ago Avalon Hill published Air Assault on Crete, with a bonus Malta invasion.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304 ... malta-1942

Thanks for that!

And in an ad banner above on the same page is this:

https://www.legionwargames.com/legion_MAL.html

Would not have found it without your direction. I searched under Herkules/ Hercules and not Malta.

You're welcome. I had the first one. I found the others by putting "invasion of Crete games" in a search engine.
There is a Vassal module for it. I figured, hey you might want a Crete game too.

Yes, I am leaning towards Unternehmen Merkur as well. Thanks,

Another one. Island of Death by Avalanche Press. And the Expansion Fortress Malta.

http://www.avalanchepress.com/gameIslandOfDeath.php

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/249 ... malta-1942

And of course there is SPI's version:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/586 ... e-may-1941

PzC El Alamein 42, includes a pair of scenarios:

#0622_01_Malta.scn 0622_01: Operation Herkules
#0622_01a_Malta.scn 0622_01a: Operation Herkules (HTH Balanced)

https://wargameds.com/products/el-alamein-42





Merkur is in Salerno 43

https://wargameds.com/collections/panze ... salerno-43

Panzer General 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFZ4JjE1kY


Panzer Corps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ3wmNWpVXE

Thanks everyone. Keep 'em coming.

And this:

https://www.worthingtonpublishing.com/c ... s-in-march

I recently watched these table top nerds play Malta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqEtIfzWiU

TOAW has two scenarios for Malta:

Command Ops 2 " The Cauldron" has three Malta scenarios:

1. Battle for Maltese Cross - 20 May 1941, two German divisions (one para, one mountain) invade
2. Malta 1940 - 11 Jun 1940 - Italian invasion of Malta
3. Ray of Hope - 20 Dec 1941 - Allied invasion of Malta after a successful Axis invasion six months prior

Also one for the Greek island of Leros, 12 Apr 1943.

All high quality scenarios.

Cheers

Wargame Design Studio (WDS) has a game called War on the Southern Front (WOTSF) and there is a scenario in that game called, #218-Invasion of Crete.

And I just landed the Fallschimjager.

And after my air attacks, securing Retimo and Heraklion: