Anyone have plan on making perhaps a chapter or campaign about this? I think it would be great from either side.

http://www.feldgrau.com/cretewar.html
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_crete.html
http://www.crete-1941.org.uk/

All of these are good sites for information, and now for a site with some great pictures:
http://home.online.no/~vestil/crete/invasjon/index.htm

Edit by [BKP]Bärentöter: Modem User warning, many pics!

Just thinking this would make an interesting chapter, unfortunetly Blitzkrieg does not actually have accurately equipped fallschirmjagers...does anyone know a mod that gives them the correct helmet/clothes?

Those are some very interesting links. Especially the one with the Pics.
Such a Chapter/Campaign would be very interesting. I think we could interest a couple of good modders to take a look and see if it could be worth the effort.

I will also ask over on the German Forum if anyone is interested.

Regards

Hello Fallschirmjager,

Not heard of any plans for a chapter or campaign but there are two single-player maps set on Crete, one by CorpBob, the other by mr.frost72 - http://bkportal.com/default.asp?content=maps&filter=4&query=Crete

mr.frost is currently updating his Kreta 1941 map for the Heimatfront mod - http://bkpforums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=21334#21334



I'm no expect on uniforms but how do these German paratroopers from Stalingrad look?

when you are interested in paratroops, there is a six-mission-campaign in Green Devils including a very tough final mission

Don't quite know how I managed to forget Green Devils
The final mission in the Eagles campaign is actually based on Operation Mercury and features a little trick with a JU-52 landing and taking off:

Those units from stalingrad are perfect equipment wise, but uniforms should be grey. I have done some skinning for other games before so I am going to play around with the normals skins today as I do not have stalingrad

Should look something like this:


well anyway, I have to go for now, have a long day ahead of me(Long week really, hosting thanksgiving lol) take care all.

Thanks for the letting us (well me anyway) know what the uniforms should look like.
Hope your Thanksgiving goes OK

To repaint the infantry skins I imagine many of you have just used simple recoloring using Photoshop no? I have been playing around a bit today with some skins, nothing I was too happy with though...hmm...I will keep at it, maybe try doing something easier like some vehicles first

Good links!

During breake from Fall Weiss mod I started creating something for Italian mod/Greece mod.

I've made one map (with both sides playable- I mean when we choose Greece we must defend and later counterstrike, when we play as Germans- we must use our brain to cross Greeks Metaxas line )
I've made also a little research for Greek units etc. (But form lack of sources I used few times info from Panzer General 2 eqquipment mod )

Any info would be great, however I must finish Fall Weiss mod at first

That greek mod sounds interesting , would love to see some greek missions.

I have been playing around with skins and am Improving but I am wondering if anyone has any tips on skinning infantry ?

Any help would be great

Hm... I have lost somewehere list of units, but I'll try to find it
But those units what I remember:
FOr vechicles and tanks:
- NC-27 (modernized Ft-18), few were tested, but not bought. It was possible that few were used
- Vickers 7 tons - ~~20 were ordered, but it's possible that none of them arrive to Greece before it's fall.
- Bren Carrier- 50 were given from GB.
- Italian takettes ~~50 were conquered.

there were also some 37mm at gun and 40mm AA gun (maybe bofors?)
ALso Greeks have 155mm Shneider howitzer and 105mm fild gun.

With sprites: For common soldiers I would use french sprites and for officer- british officer (as I found that they were similiar).

Fallschirmjager, if YOu want, write to me on pm mail and I'll send to You axis side of my map. It's playable, but there is no scripts
If YOu want You can do something with it (I'll write story for this map )

One suggestion:after scattering paratroopers,German units came under fire from armed civilians.Some of them haven't reached weapon containers and been executed and slaughtered.So,you should add:
-armed civilians
-weapon container object(with parachute if available)
-new skins for Ju52(parked on aristrip in mission when you must hold off allied counterattack) and Stuka.
-mediteranian houses(hint-use afrika buildings,just repaint them)
Hope i was helpful

Interesting idea, but what to do when we don't have sprites of civilians ?:)

Maybe we will add police

But in my mod, major will be rather invasion on Greece, Crete will be 5th mission in 2nd release

At first I want to release small mod (like Vyborg Operation 1 mission, few new units for Finalnd) with few units and one map for two sides with diffrent scripts

2nd release will be bigger and will consist from 5 missions avaiable to play from two sides of view- Allies and Axis

Maybe even there will be mission about Yugoslavia, as there was made some research in this forum

If everything will be ok we will release Greek mod, but it's going to more complicated, as maps for Fall Weiss mod were fixed by Mr.Frost
And with this- FW mod should be released quite soon- major problem was defeated

Regards!

looking forward to it...