Operation Mercury 1941
Creator: EnderBlox2222 || First Published: 10/23/2025 || Players: 2 || Size: 50x33
Categories: Historical/Geographical
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Comments:
EnderBlox2222 (10/23/2025 03:13pm | Edited: 10/23/2025 08:55pm):
This map replicates the German invasion of Crete during WWII, codenamed Operation Mercury. The invasion was one of
the first military operations in history to comprise almost entirely of airborne troops. Historically, Germany won a costly
victory, but maybe you can turn the tide?

This map's balance is likely all out of sorts due to no testing. I will make changes if people want it. There's some
inaccuracies (namely the 2 small islands next to Crete) for the sake of speeding up the game.

For some extra realism, try playing this in Fog of War, and ban the following units: Black Boat + Bomb, Neotank,
Megatank, Stealth Fighter, Piperunner, Missile, Battlecopter. I also highly reccommend increasing the unit cap, as you will
likely hit it very quickly.

Carriers are fine because one, the HMS Formidable, was present and was damaged during the battle.
Raedel (10/25/2025 01:33am):
Neat, but with how AW works I do think Jade can just spam AA until the cows come home.
Like AoE2 spamming pikes into knights (bombers win yes, but higher cost).

Would have made for a banger Eagle mission in the campaign though.



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