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Are youre interesting about Weserübung 40 Scenario ?

I think it is a cool idea and has been neglected for too long)

It took like 6 hours, didn't it?

PeteMitchell wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 9:05 pm I think it is a cool idea and has been neglected for too long)

It took like 6 hours, didn't it?

The scale of the "fighting" is indicated by the fact that during the capture of Denmark the German troops lost 2 men killed and 10 wounded. Danish losses were 13 men. It was an easy walk for the Wehrmacht. The Danish leadership de facto surrendered the country to the Nazis.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Датская_операция
https://en.topwar.ru/169983-uchenija-na ... egiju.html

PeteMitchell wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 9:05 pm I think it is a cool idea and has been neglected for too long)

I think so.

PeteMitchell wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 9:05 pm It took like 6 hours, didn't it?

Im talk about Alternative in War Game, not about Real History. Arent you ?

ZloyMazay wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 2:45 am

PeteMitchell wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 9:05 pm I think it is a cool idea and has been neglected for too long)

I think so.

PeteMitchell wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 9:05 pm It took like 6 hours, didn't it?

Im talk about Alternative in War Game, not about Real History. Arent you ?
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If you have spare time you can make any company )
http://www.eastprussia.ru/military-bicycle/

https://oper-1974.livejournal.com/788514.html

https://en.topwar.ru/2901-inostrannye-d ... ronte.html

You don't even have to make enemies in this operation ))))
https://en.topwar.ru/30266-operaciya-ko ... torii.html

There could even be a paid DLC release based on this heroic epic battle

" Something is rotten in the state of Denmark..." Quote from the tragedy “Hamlet” (act. 1, scene 4) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)..

Let's look at the Army of the Kingdom of Denmark in World War II.

It is usually written that the ground forces consisted of 2 divisions, but this is not entirely accurate. There were 2 divisions: Jutland and Zealand (Jydske og Sj?llandske Division), but these were not militaryformations in the usual sense, but administrative entities. The Danish army consisted of separate regiments.

The ground forces had 8 infantry (1 of them guards), 2 cavalry and 3 artillery regiments, 3 anti-aircraft divisions and 2 sapper battalions.

The infantry regiments consisted of 4 infantry battalions (the Guards Regiment - 3). Each regiment has an anti-tank company: 4 20-mm automatic guns and 4 37-mm anti-tank guns;
The infantry battalion included 4 infantry companies and a support company
- Infantry company:
- Control: captain, senior sergeant, 2 observers, 7 riflemen, 3 signalmen;
- Reconnaissance squad: lieutenant and 8 reconnaissance riflemen;
- 4 infantry platoons, each with:
- Control: lieutenant, sergeant, 4 grenade launchers (with rifle grenade launchers), 2 messengers and a sniper.
- 3 rifle squads, each with: corporal, grenade launcher, machine gunner and assistant, 5 riflemen;
- Machine gun compartment: composition, like a rifle compartment, but the machine gun is on a tripod, and in the rifle compartment - on a bipod.
- Battalion support company:
- 2 machine gun platoons: 2 heavy machine guns each;
- Mortar platoon: 2 81 mm mortars;
- Anti-tank platoon: 2 20-mm automatic guns;

Cavalry regiments:
- The Guards Hussar Regiment (Gardehussarregimentet) consisted of 3 cavalry squadrons.
- The Jutland Dragoon Regiment (Jydske Dragoon Regimen) included 2 cavalry, 3 scooters and a squadron of armored vehicles. It consisted of all Danish armored vehicles: 5 pieces of Swedish production: 2 PV M36 and 3 PV M39.
It was planned to put armored motorcycles into service. In 1932, 1 Harley Davidson motorcycle was reserved from Landsverk. But this idea was not developed.

Artillery regiments:
- 1st regiment: 2 heavy (8 150 mm howitzers and 4 105 mm cannons) and light (12 75 mm cannons) divisions.
- 2nd Regiment: 4 light divisions, a total of 48 75 mm guns.
These 2 regiments were part of the Zealand division. The Jutland Division had the 3rd regiment, which consisted of a heavy (8 150 mm howitzers and 4 105 mm cannons) and 3 light (12 75 mm cannons each) divisions.

Anti-aircraft artillery: 3 divisions. 13th and 14th anti-aircraft divisions - 12 75 mm anti-aircraft guns and 2 20 mm guns. The defense of Copenhagen was the 10th Anti-Aircraft Division, which had 14 75 mm guns, plus 20 mm guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.
Danish soldiers repulse a tank attack in South Jutland on April 9, 1940. Artist Toft Andersen.

I forgot to say ... Yes , about Danish Kindoms Air Force.

The Danish Air Force (Kongelige Danske Flyvevaben) was very tiny, like the armed forces in general, and the country itself.

The air force included army and naval aviation.

The army was divided into 2 detachments: Zealand and Jutland. Each detachment had 2 squadrons. In Zeelandic it is 1st and 3rd, in Jutlandic it is 2nd and 5th.
1st Squadron: 18 British Gloster Gauntlet fighters. Some sources mention 3 English Bristol Bulldog fighters in the squadron, but they were used as training aircraft.

Gloster Gauntlet fighters were produced under an English license; a total of 17 aircraft were built, plus 1 purchased in the UK.

Fighters Bristol Bulldog Mk. IIA were purchased from Great Britain in 1931 in the amount of 4 aircraft. By 1940, the machines were hopelessly outdated and had expired. By the time of the war, all Bulldogs were disarmed and used as training ones.

The 2nd squadron has 10 Fokker D-XXI fighters, but only 8 of them were mastered. Also mentioned in the squadron are 14 Fokker CV m/26 reconnaissance aircraft, which were in service with the squadron earlier, before it began to be re-equipped with fighters. However, these cars had already been written off by that time.

Fokker C.VB reconnaissance bomber. 5 aircraft were purchased in 1925 from the Netherlands. In 1927 - 1931 We assembled 13 more kits purchased from Fokker. In Denmark these vehicles were called IR or CV m/26. All 5 aircraft remaining by 1935 were modernized to the m/ZZ standard.

The 3rd Squadron included 9 Fokker CV m/33 reconnaissance aircraft.
The 5th Squadron included 12 Fokker CV m/33 reconnaissance aircraft and 2 IM gyroplanes (manufactured under license Сierva C.30A).

Reconnaissance bomber Fokker C.Vm. In Denmark it was called CV m/ЗЗ. 1 aircraft was purchased in the Netherlands as a model for licensed production. 23-30 were built in Denmark).

The flight school on the outskirts of Copenhagen had the following aircraft: 2 multi-role de Havilland DH.60 Moth, 15 multi-role de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth, 2 light transport.

And one more thing...
Of coz ! Royal Danish Navy Air Force. Naval aviation consisted of 2 air flotillas (Luftflotille):
The 1st Flotilla included 13 Heinkel HE.8 reconnaissance seaplanes.
The reconnaissance seaplane Heinkel HE.8 was built by order of Denmark. According to one version, 22 aircraft were purchased from Germany, according to another, 6 were purchased and 13 were built under license.
The 2nd flotilla included 9 British Hawker Nimrodderne fighters and 2 Hawker Dantorp torpedo bombers.

Hawker Nimrodderne fighter, export version of the English carrier-based fighter Hawker Nimrod for Denmark. The Danes purchased 2 aircraft from England, and built 10 more under license.

The Hawker Dantorp torpedo bomber was a modernized version of the Hawker Horsley torpedo bomber, manufactured to order from Denmark. A total of 2 aircraft were purchased. One was used on a wheeled chassis, the second on a float.

The Naval Aviation School had 5 English Avro 621 Tutor training aircraft.

And Final Cut about Danish Pirates ! Ops I mean Danish Royal Navy.
In spring 1940 it included more than 40 warships:
- 2 coastal defense battleships (“Nils Juel” and “Peder Skram”);
- 14 destroyers (“Dragen”, “Valen”, “Laxen”, “Glenten”, “Högen”, “Jornen”, “Havkatten”, “Springeren”; “Haien”, “Narvalen”, “Havernen”, “Walrossen” ", "Makrelen", "Nordkaperen" (some of them by that time had been reclassified as patrol ships and minesweepers);
- 9 submarines (Bellona, ​​Flora, Rota, Daphne, Dryaden, “Havmanden”, “Havhesten”, “Havfruen”;
- 4 minelayers (“Quintus”, “Sixtus”, “Lossen”, “Lindormen”);
- 6 minesweepers (“Söbjörnen”, “Söhasten” ); , “Sölöven”, “Söulven”, “Söhunden”, “Söridderen” (part of them under construction);
- 5 minesweeper boats (“MS 1–5”);
- 5 fishery protection vessels (“Beskütteren”, “Ingolf”, "Vidbjornen", "Maagen", "Ternen";
- several auxiliary vessels and patrol boats.

First at all we are need to create a Danish Nation in PzC. And make a Flag. Right ?

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