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Greece

Why, why, why? They had such a good thing going - the Ardennes campaign was so outstanding in quality, raised H&D to such a high level - and then they had to throw it all away by winding up with this piece of shit.

This campaign offends me to the bone, at every possible level. It's not just that the missions are silly to the point of idiocy - though they are - and it's not even just that the historic background is utter nonsense.

(The British army did briefly move into Greece after the Germans left, and did conduct a short-lived campaign against the leftist forces who were rebelling, with good reason, against the reinstatement of the corrupt and dictatorial prewar government. However, they left in 1945 - under pressure from the US government - and while the Greek civil war flared up again the following year, the British took no part in it. And besides, the SAS did not even exist in 1946. It was disbanded at the end of World War II, and not revived until the Malayan rebellion.)

No, it's what they've tried to do here. The whole thing is a blatant attempt to make the game more "relevant" to modern customers by playing up the terrorism angle - drawing a bogus parallel between the Greek Communist insurgents of the late Forties and contemporary terrorist organizations.

I find this ethically dubious to say the least. "Despicable" is perhaps too strong a term, but not by much.

Making war on the Third Reich, and killing its adherents, was clearly a just and commendable effort. Only a handful of hopeless idiots - together with a larger number of crypto-Nazis - will deny that.

The Western intervention in the Greek civil war was a far more questionable business, and certainly nothing to be proud of. (It began, after all, with British troops opening fire on demonstrators in Athens, killing many of them - in the finest traditions of the British army, readily recognizable to all sorts of people such as Paul Revere and Mohandas Gandhi.)

But hey, it's all right to kill these guys, because they're terrorists. Even worse, they're Communist terrorists.

I'd like to shake the hands of the people who designed the Ardennes campaign. For this one, though, I'd like to hit somebody in the face with a pie. No, two pies: appolos and pineappolos.

I said this once already. Now I'll say it again: if you want to leave H&D with a good taste in your mouth, stop right now and don't go on. If you do, you'll regret it.

At least I hope you do.

If you're determined to go on with this, then I'll give you some basic walkthroughs; but there aren't going to be any nice pictures for you to look at. I'm not going through that horse shit again just to take screenshots.

MISSION: Again, a bunch of mostly disconnected missions rather than a single thrust. However, the overall goal is the elimination (not the capture; this is strictly a search-and-kill operation) of a Greek "terrorist" leader with the highly unlikely name of Kostakipolis.

PERSONNEL: Whoever you used in the Ardennes will do fine.

EQUIPMENT: Stens, in the beginning. Four Lee-Enfield sniper rifles. A couple of explosive charges. If you've picked up any Panzerfausts, bring them; otherwise, a couple of bazookas and a few rounds apiece. After that, just load up on grenades of all types.

OK, if you're determined to go through with this....

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