From the T2K Eastern Europe sourcebook and Mitch Schwatz Twilight 2000 website.

 

XXX Mitch’s work

 

 

Greece

 

Recent History:  Greece’s entry into the European war started in 1996 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The Greek governed declared war, sent forces to Cyprus, and invaded Thrace. Greece also negotiated a mutual defence treaty with Italy to defend the Adriatic. Both countries also declared the Adriatic off limits to NATO ships and all Turkish trade.  Towards the end of 1996 Greek forces attacked a NATO convoy bound for Turkey, this led to NATO declaring war on Greece, and Italy declaring war on NATO. The result was a NATO attack on Greek naval and military targets and the nuking of Greek industrial centres to neutralise the Mediterranean. The Greek government collapsed and a military junta of generals took control, annexing Macedonia in the process. However the generals soon began to squabble and the Macedonians put up strong resistance, and the country began to revert to a city state form of government with the forces of the generals controlling their own fiefdoms.  

 

Government: Greece does not have anything resembling a central government. The city states are military dictatorships and are too busy controlling their immediate areas, and keeping out other city state forces, foreign armies and marauders to worry about unifying the government at any time soon.

 

Population: About 4 million Greeks survived the war, with much of the population living in the city states and the suburbs which have been turned into military camps. However many Greeks are still independent and live in small villages, and they do not trust the city state governments.  Major cities are the capitol Athens (176,000), Thessalonika (200,000), Piraeus (112,000), Patras (85,000), Larisa (49,000), Volos (35,000), Kavalla (30,000), Sparta (9,000), Corinth (5,000) and Iraklion (100,000) and Khania (30,000) on Crete.

 

Industry & Economy: Greek industry was devastated by the war, with much of it destroyed by air and nuclear strikes. The turmoil afterwards prevented any recovery and with no native petroleum there was little energy to run the few factories that survived.  Old industries such as agriculture (olives, wine) and fishing (sail and oars) has made a revival, while cottage industries and workshops to maintain the city state militaries have sprung up in urban areas.  Most transport in Greece is now animal powered as there is no fuel to run trains or vehicles, and what’s left is run by the military.  Travel by boat is now quite popular as most surviving villages and town are close to the sea.  The Greek military does retain a number of armed gun boats. Most are sail powered fishing boats armed with machine guns and black powder guns, but some motor boats and even some naval patrol craft are available, but rarely used as fuel is hard to come by.

 

 

Armed Forces:

 

The Greek army is still organised along NATO standards, but its equipment comes from a variety of sources, both NATO and Soviet, as the Greeks lost a lot of their original equipment in Thrace and the Yugoslav splinter states. The Greek military is very badly off at the moment, and many Greek soldiers have to make do with civilian weapons, particularly shotguns and bows.  Although they are largely doing their own thing, the Greeks will quickly attack and unite to repel foreign armies and marauders from Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania and the former Yugoslav states.

 

 

9th INFANTRY DIVISION

The 9th division is occupying the Yugoslav state of Macedonia. It is HQ at Skopje, with units based at other Macedonian towns guarding against incursions from Albania, Bulgaria, and reinforcing Greek forces guarding against a Turkish incursion from Thrace.

Location: Skopje and Kumanova, Macedonia

Manpower: 4,300 (1,300 at Skopje/Kumanova, 1,000 at Kriva Palanka, 900 at Bitola, 1,200 at Gevgelija)

Tanks: 23 (12x Leopard 1, 3x M48A5 at Skopje/Kumanova)

                   (3x M48A5 at Kriva Palanka)

                   (2x M48A5 at Bitola)

                   (3x Leopard 1 at Gevgelja)

 

3rd ARMOURED BRIGADE

Based at Thessalonika, this unit has close ties with the 11th Infantry Brigade and will react if the Turks attack out of Thrace.

Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Manpower: 5,000

Tanks: 4 (3x T-72, 1x T-55)

Boats: 15

 

2nd INFANTRY BRIGADE

Currently based at Athens

Location: Athens

Manpower: 3,500

Tanks: 1 (1x T-62)

Boats: 40

 

3RD INFANTRY BRIGADE

Currently based at Larisa

Location: Larisa, Greece

Manpower: 750

Tanks: 2 (2x T-55)

 

5th INFANTRY BRIGADE

This unit is conflict with the 2nd Infantry Brigade over resources.

Location: Piraeus, Greece

Manpower: 2,500

Tanks: 2 (2x T-55)

Boats: 51

 

8TH INFANTRY BRIGADE

Currently based at Volos.

Location: Volos, Greece

Manpower: 2,000

Boats: 38

 

9th INFANTRY BRIGADE

Currently base at Patros.

Location: Patros, Greece

Manpower:  1,500

Boats: 24

 

11TH INFANTRY BRIGADE

Currently based at Kavalla near the Turkish border, this unit is constantly involved in clashes with Turkish scouting and patrol units.

Location: Kavalla. Greece

Manpower: 3,000

Tanks: 2 (2x T-62)

Boats: 14

 

THE SPARTANS

A remnant of several Greek special forces units, they have set up a pseudo-Spartan society. They defend Sparta and occasionally hire out to neighboring cities as mercenaries.

Location: Sparta, Greece

Manpower: 1,000

 

1ST PARATROOPERS

The 1st Paratroopers are the last surviving Greek special forces unit, and are deadly rivals of the Spartans who they consider to be traitors.

Location: Corinth, Greece

Manpower: 250

Boats: 5

 

1ST CRETE BRIGADE

Currently based in Iraklion.

Location: Iraklion, Crete

Manpower: 450

Boats: 40

 

2ND CRETE BRIGADE

Currently based in Khania.

Location: Khania, Crete.

Manpower: 350

Boats: 20