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battalion-sized formations that were being formed for amphibious raiding were to cumbersome for covert operations, and that small units of five to six men would be able to stealthy penetrate enemy bases and attack using delayed-charges.
Three days later Stirling was back at GHQ and given permission to recruit six officers and 60 men from Layforce and to set up a training camp in the Suez Canal Zone. This independent command was to be called L Detachment, Special
Air Service Bridge. The term "Brigade" was chosen in order to convince German intelligence that the 8th army had an airborne brigade in theatre rather then just a handful of men. It was thought that the use of 60 volunteers would not deplete the strength and resources of the 8th army, but their use behind enemy lines might cause confusion during a major offensive.
In an early mission, L Detachment deployed to gather intelligence, as well as harassing and tying up German forces during Operation Crusader. Sixty-six men were parachuted from five Bristol Bombay bombers in very bad weather. It took them over an hour to assemble the men, and they could only find two of their ten supply canisters.
These contained blankets, water, food and 6 Lewes bombs (named for Jock Lewes, a co-founder of the SAS), but no fuses.
Unable to destroy any planes, Stirling decided to split his men into five groups and at least carry out some reconnaissance. One by one the men made it back to the rendezvous point where the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was waiting with vehicles for extraction to Allied lines.
Of the 66 men who had left for the operation only 22 men returned.
Next, Stirling and his group teamed up with A Squadron of the Lone Range Desert Group. They set up a base at Gialo about 240km south of Benghazi in Libya. There they could operate using ground insertion instead of the highly unreliable air insertion of the previous mission. Stirling was asked to head the mission, due to the enemy airfields preparing an operation on the 21st/22nd of December.
Stirling, along with Irish athlete Patty Mayne, would lead ten men in an attack on the airfield at Sirte, while Jock
Lewes would go for El Agheila, and Lt. Bill Frasier would attack Agedabia a week later.
Leaving Gialo on December 8th, Stirling and his group were being transported by the LRDG in 7 30-cwt (hundredweight) trucks. The column totaled 32 men and was piled high with stores and equipment. For the first three days the journey was uneventful, except for minor mechanical problems with one of the trucks. On the fourth day, an Italian plane spotted the group. Knowing that bombers would soon follow, the group hid in some scrub. Three Italian bombers came, and for fifteen minutes they bombed the group, throwing up huge clouds of dust. When the dust had cleared, Stirling found that his column suffered no damage at all.
The column moved on. Just before dark, another Italian plane came and started circling overhead. Being to dark for enemy bombers, and knowing that a patrol might soon be coming, Stirling decided to divide his group. He sent
Mayne, along with ten men, on to attack the airfield at
Tamet, while he would see what could be done at Sirte.
Both attacks were to take place the following night. That night, the reconnaissance under Stirling was noticed by the
Italians, causing them to fire randomly into the darkness.
All Stirling could do was to hide and watch the show, knowing that they had lost the element of surprise. The following day, Stirling cursed as he watched the Italians evacuate the airfield. Hoping the others had better luck, the group headed for the rendezvous point.
At Tamet, Mayne had better luck. As his group approached the airfield they could hear people chatting and laughing in one of the buildings. Mayne kicked the door open and fired his Thompson sub machine gun into the room. Leaving four men as a rear guard, Mayne and five men proceeded to place bombs on 23 aircraft in 15 minutes. Having no more bombs, Mayne climbed into the 24th aircraft cockpit and ripped out part of the instrumental panel with his bare hands. It was an episode which would become part of SAS legend.
Lewes found that his airfield was only a ferrying point and had no aircraft, so he planted mines on the runway and along the road, as well as blowing up some thirty trucks.
Fraser was even more successful, destroying 37 Italian CR42 fighter-bombers, although he had to leave two aircraft untouched after running out of explosives. Incidentally, the German general, Erwin Rommel, was at nearby Agedabia that night, and was most likely entertained by the resulting fireworks.
Thus began the SAS. By the end of 1941 the SAS had destroyed more than 100 enemy aircraft. By the close of
1942, L Detachment was given full regimental status as 1
SAS regiment. Receiving volunteers from 8 Commando, Free
French, Poles, and Greeks. During operations in North
Africa, the SAS destroyed over 400 enemy aircraft and tied up large numbers of enemy troops protecting air bases and lines of communication. The SAS will continue to do important missions throughout the war, causing havoc and destruction behind enemy lines.
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*****15. REGIONS OF HIDDEN AND DANGEROUS 2*****
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The information in this section is just about the various areas you will find in the game. Note that all information is just text from your Hidden and Dangerous 2 manual.
*Norway (March 1941)
Norway is a nation in the northwestern portion of continental Europe, north of Denmark (and Germany) and west of Sweden. Norway has thousands of kilometers of coastline with numerous ports. Much of the landscape is glaciated, with rugged mountains and fertile valleys. Artic Tundra becomes prevalent to the north.
Norway's position in the North Atlantic makes it strategically invaluable to the German Navy. Norway had taken a position of neutrality early in the war, and its tiny army was completely unprepared when, in April of 1940,
Hitler sent his armies to conquer the country, receiving help from the traitorous Norwegian Foreign Minister, Vidkun
Quisling. The Norwegian troops fought valiantly, once even driving the Germans out of the port of Narvik, but the cause was hopeless, and Norway accepted an armistice on
June 9, 1940. As of March 1941, the Germans still hold
Norway in a tight grip.
*North Africa (November 1942)
North Africa is a region that includes a number of individual countries, including Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Algeria, Morocco, and others. The terrain and environment vary from region to region, including some areas in the north with climates reminiscent of Italy and the Northern
Mediterranean. Most of the area though is arid, barren deserts, with blowing sands and little shade or cover.
Africa was never high on Hitler list of targets, but
Mussolini has other ideas, thinking to invade the French and British colonies there and create an Italian empire around the Mediterranean. When Italy invasion began to go bad in late 1940 and early 1941, Hitler sent in General
Erwin Rommel, called the desert fox, to clean up the mess.
Rommel landed in Tripoli and advanced rapidly as far as
Tobruk, at which point Allied forces were able to check his advance. As of November of 1942, General Bernard Montgomery has pushed back against Rommel, forcing him into a retreat at the recent battle of El Alamein. The battle for North
Africa is not won, but the tides have turned.
*Burma (July 1943)
Positioned in Southeast Asia between China and India, Burma is a broad, heavily forested land surrounded by rugged highlands. It is a hot, humid tropical region subject to heavy monsoons throughout the spring and summer months, and long dry periods during the winters.
Burma is the main route between the West and our allies in
China, a route sometimes called the Burma Road. With the
Japanese control of the shipping lanes to the East of
China, it becomes the most important route. The Yanks need to use Chinese air bases in order to launch strikes at the
Japanese homeland, and our Chinese allies need supplies. In
May of 1942, the Japanese captured Burma. As of July 1943, there is no hard plan in place to recapture Burma, and the allies are not completely certain of what the Japanese are doing in the interior of the country.
*AUSTRIA (September 1943)
Austria is a small country with the misfortune to have been located between Germany and Italy. It is a small, mountainous country, tapering off to sloping hills in the north and the East. Austria has cold winters and mild summers, with rain in the lowlands and snow in the mountains.
Wedged between two axis countries, Austria was the first country to fall to the Hitler scheme for world domination, although it fell more through political chaos and pressuring then it did through conventional warfare. In any case, Austria has, for all practical purposes, been a part of Germany since the spring of 1938.
*Northern France (May 1944)
France lies, as you know, just across the English Channel from our own country. It is north of Spain, which remains highly uninvolved in the current war, and also borders both
Germany and Italy directly. It is a country of plains, fields, and gently rolling hills (although it is mountainous to the East). Cool summers and mild winters combine to make France a generally comfortable place to be.
France fell early in the war as part of the Hitler
Blitzkrieg, forcing the remaining French administration into a collaborationist government in the town of Vichy.
The entire northern half of the country is under direct
German control. The Axis leaders know that Britain will be the staging ground for an invasion of the continent by the
Allies sometime soon. They even believe that the invasion will take place in France, but they are unsure where, and their forces are spread out thin to cover a massive amount of coastline in Northern France. Hitler knows we are coming. We would hat to disappoint him.
*Czechoslovakia (May 1945)
Czechoslovakia is a country dominated by forests, plains, plateaus, and rolling hills. Czechoslovakia enjoys cool summers, but wet winters. It is a strategically located country, sitting astride some of the most important land routes through Europe.
Sitting in the cradle between Austria and Germany,
Czechoslovakia made an obvious early target for Hitler. The
Czechoslovakian army made no match for Hitler, and the only countries willing to defend Czechoslovakia (France and
Soviet Union) were prevented from doing so by Poland and
Romania. In 1938, in an attempt to assuage the threat from
Germany, Czechoslovakia gave up the German-populated
Sudetenland. Six months later, under threat of an unstoppable invasion that would have devastated the country, the rest of Czechoslovakia was surrendered to
Germany without a shot being fired.
Czechoslovakia has remained in German hands since that time. Now that the war in Europe draws to a close and
Hitler has been corralled in Berlin, reports have come in of the Czechoslovakian citizenry, with the backing of the
Soviet Union, rising up against the German troops remaining in the area.
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*****16. MULTIPLAYER*****
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Multiplayer is the online portion of the game where you get to play with real live people around the world. You can play on the internet or your local area network. There are three types of games online. First is your normal death match game where everybody is on his or her own and must kill everybody. Person with the most kills after a period of time wins. Next is occupation maps where there are zones marked with flags all over the map. This is like a capture
Three days later Stirling was back at GHQ and given permission to recruit six officers and 60 men from Layforce and to set up a training camp in the Suez Canal Zone. This independent command was to be called L Detachment, Special
Air Service Bridge. The term "Brigade" was chosen in order to convince German intelligence that the 8th army had an airborne brigade in theatre rather then just a handful of men. It was thought that the use of 60 volunteers would not deplete the strength and resources of the 8th army, but their use behind enemy lines might cause confusion during a major offensive.
In an early mission, L Detachment deployed to gather intelligence, as well as harassing and tying up German forces during Operation Crusader. Sixty-six men were parachuted from five Bristol Bombay bombers in very bad weather. It took them over an hour to assemble the men, and they could only find two of their ten supply canisters.
These contained blankets, water, food and 6 Lewes bombs (named for Jock Lewes, a co-founder of the SAS), but no fuses.
Unable to destroy any planes, Stirling decided to split his men into five groups and at least carry out some reconnaissance. One by one the men made it back to the rendezvous point where the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was waiting with vehicles for extraction to Allied lines.
Of the 66 men who had left for the operation only 22 men returned.
Next, Stirling and his group teamed up with A Squadron of the Lone Range Desert Group. They set up a base at Gialo about 240km south of Benghazi in Libya. There they could operate using ground insertion instead of the highly unreliable air insertion of the previous mission. Stirling was asked to head the mission, due to the enemy airfields preparing an operation on the 21st/22nd of December.
Stirling, along with Irish athlete Patty Mayne, would lead ten men in an attack on the airfield at Sirte, while Jock
Lewes would go for El Agheila, and Lt. Bill Frasier would attack Agedabia a week later.
Leaving Gialo on December 8th, Stirling and his group were being transported by the LRDG in 7 30-cwt (hundredweight) trucks. The column totaled 32 men and was piled high with stores and equipment. For the first three days the journey was uneventful, except for minor mechanical problems with one of the trucks. On the fourth day, an Italian plane spotted the group. Knowing that bombers would soon follow, the group hid in some scrub. Three Italian bombers came, and for fifteen minutes they bombed the group, throwing up huge clouds of dust. When the dust had cleared, Stirling found that his column suffered no damage at all.
The column moved on. Just before dark, another Italian plane came and started circling overhead. Being to dark for enemy bombers, and knowing that a patrol might soon be coming, Stirling decided to divide his group. He sent
Mayne, along with ten men, on to attack the airfield at
Tamet, while he would see what could be done at Sirte.
Both attacks were to take place the following night. That night, the reconnaissance under Stirling was noticed by the
Italians, causing them to fire randomly into the darkness.
All Stirling could do was to hide and watch the show, knowing that they had lost the element of surprise. The following day, Stirling cursed as he watched the Italians evacuate the airfield. Hoping the others had better luck, the group headed for the rendezvous point.
At Tamet, Mayne had better luck. As his group approached the airfield they could hear people chatting and laughing in one of the buildings. Mayne kicked the door open and fired his Thompson sub machine gun into the room. Leaving four men as a rear guard, Mayne and five men proceeded to place bombs on 23 aircraft in 15 minutes. Having no more bombs, Mayne climbed into the 24th aircraft cockpit and ripped out part of the instrumental panel with his bare hands. It was an episode which would become part of SAS legend.
Lewes found that his airfield was only a ferrying point and had no aircraft, so he planted mines on the runway and along the road, as well as blowing up some thirty trucks.
Fraser was even more successful, destroying 37 Italian CR42 fighter-bombers, although he had to leave two aircraft untouched after running out of explosives. Incidentally, the German general, Erwin Rommel, was at nearby Agedabia that night, and was most likely entertained by the resulting fireworks.
Thus began the SAS. By the end of 1941 the SAS had destroyed more than 100 enemy aircraft. By the close of
1942, L Detachment was given full regimental status as 1
SAS regiment. Receiving volunteers from 8 Commando, Free
French, Poles, and Greeks. During operations in North
Africa, the SAS destroyed over 400 enemy aircraft and tied up large numbers of enemy troops protecting air bases and lines of communication. The SAS will continue to do important missions throughout the war, causing havoc and destruction behind enemy lines.
***********************************************
*****15. REGIONS OF HIDDEN AND DANGEROUS 2*****
***********************************************
The information in this section is just about the various areas you will find in the game. Note that all information is just text from your Hidden and Dangerous 2 manual.
*Norway (March 1941)
Norway is a nation in the northwestern portion of continental Europe, north of Denmark (and Germany) and west of Sweden. Norway has thousands of kilometers of coastline with numerous ports. Much of the landscape is glaciated, with rugged mountains and fertile valleys. Artic Tundra becomes prevalent to the north.
Norway's position in the North Atlantic makes it strategically invaluable to the German Navy. Norway had taken a position of neutrality early in the war, and its tiny army was completely unprepared when, in April of 1940,
Hitler sent his armies to conquer the country, receiving help from the traitorous Norwegian Foreign Minister, Vidkun
Quisling. The Norwegian troops fought valiantly, once even driving the Germans out of the port of Narvik, but the cause was hopeless, and Norway accepted an armistice on
June 9, 1940. As of March 1941, the Germans still hold
Norway in a tight grip.
*North Africa (November 1942)
North Africa is a region that includes a number of individual countries, including Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Algeria, Morocco, and others. The terrain and environment vary from region to region, including some areas in the north with climates reminiscent of Italy and the Northern
Mediterranean. Most of the area though is arid, barren deserts, with blowing sands and little shade or cover.
Africa was never high on Hitler list of targets, but
Mussolini has other ideas, thinking to invade the French and British colonies there and create an Italian empire around the Mediterranean. When Italy invasion began to go bad in late 1940 and early 1941, Hitler sent in General
Erwin Rommel, called the desert fox, to clean up the mess.
Rommel landed in Tripoli and advanced rapidly as far as
Tobruk, at which point Allied forces were able to check his advance. As of November of 1942, General Bernard Montgomery has pushed back against Rommel, forcing him into a retreat at the recent battle of El Alamein. The battle for North
Africa is not won, but the tides have turned.
*Burma (July 1943)
Positioned in Southeast Asia between China and India, Burma is a broad, heavily forested land surrounded by rugged highlands. It is a hot, humid tropical region subject to heavy monsoons throughout the spring and summer months, and long dry periods during the winters.
Burma is the main route between the West and our allies in
China, a route sometimes called the Burma Road. With the
Japanese control of the shipping lanes to the East of
China, it becomes the most important route. The Yanks need to use Chinese air bases in order to launch strikes at the
Japanese homeland, and our Chinese allies need supplies. In
May of 1942, the Japanese captured Burma. As of July 1943, there is no hard plan in place to recapture Burma, and the allies are not completely certain of what the Japanese are doing in the interior of the country.
*AUSTRIA (September 1943)
Austria is a small country with the misfortune to have been located between Germany and Italy. It is a small, mountainous country, tapering off to sloping hills in the north and the East. Austria has cold winters and mild summers, with rain in the lowlands and snow in the mountains.
Wedged between two axis countries, Austria was the first country to fall to the Hitler scheme for world domination, although it fell more through political chaos and pressuring then it did through conventional warfare. In any case, Austria has, for all practical purposes, been a part of Germany since the spring of 1938.
*Northern France (May 1944)
France lies, as you know, just across the English Channel from our own country. It is north of Spain, which remains highly uninvolved in the current war, and also borders both
Germany and Italy directly. It is a country of plains, fields, and gently rolling hills (although it is mountainous to the East). Cool summers and mild winters combine to make France a generally comfortable place to be.
France fell early in the war as part of the Hitler
Blitzkrieg, forcing the remaining French administration into a collaborationist government in the town of Vichy.
The entire northern half of the country is under direct
German control. The Axis leaders know that Britain will be the staging ground for an invasion of the continent by the
Allies sometime soon. They even believe that the invasion will take place in France, but they are unsure where, and their forces are spread out thin to cover a massive amount of coastline in Northern France. Hitler knows we are coming. We would hat to disappoint him.
*Czechoslovakia (May 1945)
Czechoslovakia is a country dominated by forests, plains, plateaus, and rolling hills. Czechoslovakia enjoys cool summers, but wet winters. It is a strategically located country, sitting astride some of the most important land routes through Europe.
Sitting in the cradle between Austria and Germany,
Czechoslovakia made an obvious early target for Hitler. The
Czechoslovakian army made no match for Hitler, and the only countries willing to defend Czechoslovakia (France and
Soviet Union) were prevented from doing so by Poland and
Romania. In 1938, in an attempt to assuage the threat from
Germany, Czechoslovakia gave up the German-populated
Sudetenland. Six months later, under threat of an unstoppable invasion that would have devastated the country, the rest of Czechoslovakia was surrendered to
Germany without a shot being fired.
Czechoslovakia has remained in German hands since that time. Now that the war in Europe draws to a close and
Hitler has been corralled in Berlin, reports have come in of the Czechoslovakian citizenry, with the backing of the
Soviet Union, rising up against the German troops remaining in the area.
*************************
*****16. MULTIPLAYER*****
*************************
Multiplayer is the online portion of the game where you get to play with real live people around the world. You can play on the internet or your local area network. There are three types of games online. First is your normal death match game where everybody is on his or her own and must kill everybody. Person with the most kills after a period of time wins. Next is occupation maps where there are zones marked with flags all over the map. This is like a capture
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