Norway WWII GB 2010! Want to join the cold fun?

As the clock ticks towards the 9th April, the 70 year anniversary of the start of the Blitzkrieg, the invasion of Denmark and Norway, the first action the German Fallschirmjägers would see, the first defeat of the Third Reich; Operation Weserubüng started.


Norway WWII hosts a very, very wide range of subjects to build... All from ships such as the Blücher, Tirpitz, Bismarck, and thousands of others both US, UK and German... Even Russian at some point. Even Norwegian warships too, and our armed merchant fleet. Norway had the third largest merchant fleet at the time, and much of that was armed during WWII, going from England to Norway and back.
Not to even mention the U-boats Germany had stationed here since they occupied, till the war was ended. Some of the largest U-boat bunkers were built here.

That was only the naval part. You have planes, from the Gloster Gladiators outclassing the BF109 (Yes, I am serious), to JU-52 dropping out Fallschirmjägers (German paratroopers saw their first combat ever in Norway). Even a Mosquito bombing the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo, or a spitfire reconnaisance? You can even do a Lancaster, and even a Horsa glider full of special forces!
In late-war, even a P-51D Mustang dogfights against BF109-G's are possible. Did I mention the B17's too?

As for armour, you had two panzerdivisions in Norway. One left for the Eastern front in summer of 1942, and the other was probably the only panzerdivision ever to use Panzer I tanks from start to end as their main force.
French armour were also inserted in Narvik (The very first defeat Germany had during WWII), and the German prototype Neubaufahrzeug were set into combat-use here. 4 were produced, one stayed in Germany and the other 3 were all scrapped at the end of the war. As a matter of fact, you can EVEN build late-war Russian tanks, as the Russians also invaded North-Norway at the end of the war...

Else of that, you can do the very unknown Police Forces (No police, it was a covername), French Foreign Legion, French army, Russian army, Gestapo, Norwegian resistance (Looked to be one of the firecest during WWII), Royal airforce in all forms and kinds, USAAF, Luftwaffe, the great naval ships, the hundreds, if not a thousand U-boats stationed here.....

After this too long post, you may see the scale of the chaos that happened up here in the North.. Sadly, it is very rarely spoken off!





There's something for every interest!
Come join us!
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It'll be great fun, and resourcefull!

-Lasse