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For King and Country!
Here at Panther we look forward to give more visibility to the excellent work done by our small, but bristling with talent and imagination, community of scenario developers. This is the first piece in a, we expect, long series featuring the contributions made by those members of the community who have come to terms with the powerful scenario, map and order of battle editors bundled with Command Ops.

[{Sea Lion - Rye}]

The landings area. Check here a higher-res image.

This scenario is based around a hypothetical turn of events in which Germany has executed its historically-planned invasion of Great Britain, code-named Unternehmen Seelöwe (Operation Sea Lion). The scenario takes place on a section of the Sussex coast in the vicinity of a town called Rye and opens shortly after German forces have put ashore at Camber. The invaders' task is to capture a number of local towns to establish a perimeter around a secure beachhead; the defending Brits must stop them at all costs.

The Germans coming ashore. High-res image here.

The Command Ops engine is ideally suited to these kinds of 'what if' scenarios because it allows the simulation of hypothetical engagements that involve real formations with a plausible order of battle. The suite of tools provided for scenario designers is extremely accessible and flexible, which makes realising a scenario like this quick and easy. Moreover, the game's focus on an operational-level engagements means that you can simulate battles on a scale that is of historical significance. Indeed, the appeal of creating a scenario around Operation Sea Lion is precisely that the consequences of this alternate history would clearly be very significant indeed. The coastline near Rye offers a good variety of terrain, which should make for an interesting engagement. You can download the scenario, maps and estabs here!

The 2nd Battalion, 61 Infanterie Regiment at the gates of Rye. High-res image here.

[{About the Author}]

Greg Taylor keeps an excellent blog where he's made available a number of mods and scenarios for games like Arma III, Iron Front: Liberation and DCS. Besides visiting alternate history settings, he's also made a very interesting scenario for Command Ops covering the battles of the 82nd and 101st US Airborne divisions to secure the inland routes for the forces coming ashore at Utah Beach on D-Day.

Meet the Community Work: Sea Lion - Rye