'Rineanna Has Fallen' a 1940 what if Scenario
Urgent - Top Secret
Comandant B Mc Afee 22nd Infantry Battallion to GHQ Southern Command.
Irish Forces have been engaged in heavy fighting from 6.00Z this morning May 26th 1940 Rineanna .
German forces have now taken control of the airfield and our forces are in full retreat from the area .
Reinforcements urgently required to contain the the enemy. All available forces committed.
FW Condor lands Brandenburg troops attack the parked aircraft while taking some casulties from the dug in Irish troops.
Comandant B Mc Afee 22nd Infantry Battallion to GHQ Southern Command.
Irish Forces have been engaged in heavy fighting from 6.00Z this morning May 26th 1940 Rineanna .
German forces have now taken control of the airfield and our forces are in full retreat from the area .
Reinforcements urgently required to contain the the enemy. All available forces committed.
FW Condor lands Brandenburg troops attack the parked aircraft while taking some casulties from the dug in Irish troops.
Keigsmarine boats arrive but Herr Ludwig and his guides arrive late therefore preventing them from moving into action Turn 2
Meanwile at the other side of the airfield the Brandenburgers take some casulties as they attempt destroy the parked aircraft.
The Irish Rolls Royce fails to cause any casulties to ther German forces.
The Irish Rolls Royce fails to cause any casulties to ther German forces.
The Brandenburgers take up defensive positions in some abandoned bunkers causing heavy Irish casulties.
The Naval landing party is finally brought into action and makes a assault on the main gate of the airfield.
The Landsverk armoured car finally moves into position to attack the Brandenburgers while surviving being shot at by the boat mounted 88mm gun.
LDF (Local Defence Force) defending the control tower take heavy casulties.
The Naval landing party press home thier attack
The Bofors gun swings into action against the enemy
The Rolls Royce tries to stem the flow of enemy but is finally knocked out by the guns on the boat.
The Brandenburgers are effectively contained with fire from the armoured car as their anti tank guns smuggled in in the Ford Trimotor were discovered by customs the evening before and their armoued piercing rounds are not able to knock out the armoured car.
The Irish Aircraft are destroyed
The Brandenburgers finally make a dash for the control tower and take it in the last turn.
An Irish scout car gets away to raise the alarm.
An Irish scout car gets away to raise the alarm.
