WARGAMESOSD Storm Over Scandinavia - Narvik (3) |
Narvik
- The Battle for Norway Turns 1 - 7 | |
 Southern Norway with Denmark and its Aalborg Airfield at the bottom of the map. The airfield will give the Axis player air superiority throughout the game | |
Turn
1: 9-11 April 1940 - The Start of the Invasion | |
 Turn 1 - The Luftwaffe attacks Kristiansand in southern Norway |  Turn 1 - The Luftwaffe attack at Frederickstad at the entrance of Oslo Fjord with overwhelming force |
 A Gladiator fighter squadron (3-F-3) counter-attacks the Luftwaffe with limited success - one unit aborted |  Kristiansand falls following an opposed amphibious assault with the capital battleship Prince Eugen in support |
 Frederickstad submits to attack and German winterized battalions are rebuilt after being broken down for the invasion |  The
Overview of Southern Norway with Axis forces firmly established in the first turn, 9-11 April 1940 |
Turn
2: 12-15 April 1940 - Britain Aids Norway | |
 A British night bomber is despatched to Oslo to help protect city, although of no strategic importance in game terms |  HMS Warspite and battleship group interdicts the strategically important port of Trondheim, note also French cruiser top right |
 The Norwegians counter attack at Frederickstad and the German winterized brigades suffer a retreat |  Conversely, Axis forces expand their beachhead by a breakout to the north and east of Kristiansand |
 The aircraft carrier Furious and the battleship group led by HMS Valiant interdict the port of Bergen |  British forces on the Shetland Islands includes infantry battlions, landing craft and Blenheim long range fighter aircraft |
Turn
3: 16-19 April 1940 - Narvik Comes Under Fire | |
 Southern Norway as Axis forces extend their grip and Frederickstad still under threat |  Axis forces expand their bases at Kristiansand with the arrival of 3rd Mountain Infantry and 1-3 paratrooper units |
 An opposed amphibious attack on Narvik, repulsed with an NE (No Effect) result on 1:1 ratio, though the 3rd Mountain Infantry are some of the finest in the Axis Order of Battle |  The first battle for Narvik, Prince Eugen and its flotilla of ships were attacked unsuccessfully by roaming British aircraft on their homeward journey in the waters off of Stavanger |
Turn
4: 20-23 April 1940 - Breakout continues at Kristiansand | |
 Winterized troops and the strong 3rd Mountain Infantry breakout from Kristiansand and head for Oslo |  Frederickstad, British forces buffer as Axis make a further retreat, however, Axis forces will attack Oslo from the North |
 Frederickstad, close-up of British forces in a defensive role as they intervene to prevent Oslo being attacked from the south |  Trondheim also feels the benefit of the strong British expeditionary force, newly arrived from the Shetlands |
Turn
5: 24-27 April 1940 - Luftwaffe attacks Bergen - HMS Furious Sunk | |
 The Luftwaffe attacks shipping at Bergan with heavy anti-aircraft fire from British warships, Furious sunk and Valiant damaged |
forces, Mobilization Point 6 overrun and 6-4's threaten capital |
 Reeling from the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Furious, HMS Ark Royal is sent to replace it at Bergen |  French troops occupy Andalsnes north of Bergen and are joined by the British Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Glorious |
Turn
6: 28 April - 1 May 1940 - Oslo and Bergen come under attack | |
 Oslo,
British units are disrupted along with units to the North, German infantry out of supply to the South |  Units of the Royal Navy at Bergen, including HMS Ark Royal and Valient come under air attack but survive |
Turn
7: 2 - 5 May 1940 - Narvik comes under attack again - Stavanger retaken by French | |
 German forces land at Narvik supported by heavy cruisers Prince Eugen, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst & Hipper |  Polish forces land at Austvag, one of the outer islands near Narvik to attack German forces from the rear |
 French Foreign Legion received as reinforcemnets open a concerted attack at Stavanger on disrupted German forces |  French retake Stavanger and disrupted German forces retreat in the direction of Kristiansand, from whence they came! |
 The port of Narvik - Mobilization Centre 15 in Turn 1 - 9 April 1940 A 1-4 Inf X HQ at Bardufoss and in Tromso, Mobilizaton Centre 16 | |
