Experience the German blitzkrieg of May 1940 as it sweeps through the Ardennes into France, Belgium, and Holland. Heroes in Defiance Battlepack 1 recreates the Allied defenses against Wehrmacht divisions, Fallschirmj盲gers, and SS units during Fall Gelb. This strategy simulation delivers 10 scenarios spanning airborne assaults in Holland to the entrapment of the British Expeditionary Force and French remnants at Channel ports.
Command forces in these indie tactical battles, including five new scenarios that drop the need for map overlays. Players relive over six weeks of staunch resistance across the Low Countries and France. Wargaming fans who favor detailed historical recreations will find precise depictions of 1940's pivotal clashes.
Heroes in Defiance Battlepack 1
Heroes in Defiance Battle Pack 1 takes you to May 1940, and the Germans launched Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). Scores of German divisions flooded through the Ardennes and across the borders of France, Belgium, and Holland. The blitzkrieg tactics first used in Poland, in 1939, had been put into action again鈥攁nd perfected. For over six weeks the Allies, including the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), put up a staunch defense. Despite their defiance, they could not withstand the fierce onslaught of the German Wehrmacht, the fearless Fallschirmj盲gers, and the notorious SS.
Heroes in Defiance Battle Pack 1 has 10 scenarios that depict the full range of the battles for France and the Low Countries, from the first Fallschirmj盲ger airborne assaults in Holland to the closing of the pocket of the BEF and the remnants of the French Army at the Channel ports. Heroes in Defiance also adds five new scenarios (two previously unpublished) and eliminates the need for overlays with additional maps. It鈥檚 the blitzkrieg of 1940 at its best!
