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==== ALEXANDRIA ==== | ==== ALEXANDRIA ==== | ||
Base of British operations in 1941, acts as a safe harbour, air base, and supply point for British operations across North Africa. | |||
Significant amount of clandestine operations - especially from German, Italian, Spanish, and English agents seeking historical and archeaological information on Atlantis. | |||
==== CARIO ==== | |||
Located at the head of the Nile River, Cairo is a cosmopolitan city, and the largest city in 1941 in the Arab world and Africa. Established in its current incarnation as a capital by the Fatimid dynasty in 986AD. | |||
Cairo has an impressive citadel, a minaret filled skyline, and is close to the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza. | |||
Especially surrounding the Egyptian Museum, and related antiquities dealers and the like, there is significant clandestine operations happening in Cairo. Oft times, this activity breaks out into open combat in Cairo (ulnike Alexandria, where the heavy British presence keeps outright combat to a minimum). | |||
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NORTH AFRICA WORLD WAR II
Map shows control of geographic regions circa 1940. The campaign will start in April 1941.
The campaign could see action/scenes set Syria, Trans Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Lybia, and Tunisa.
EGYPT
- Nominally independent since 1922
- Under British occupation and influence since 1882 after the Orabi Revolt
- Bound by treaty with the UK to house British troops
- But declared neutrality with regard to the war
- Fierce Egyptian nationalist opposition to British involvement in Egypt
- Government currently lead by King Farouk, and parliament, led by Prime Minister Hussein Sirri Pasha, appointed to appease British demands
- General Henry Maitland Wilson commands Egyptian military in the Western Desert
ALEXANDRIA
Base of British operations in 1941, acts as a safe harbour, air base, and supply point for British operations across North Africa.
Significant amount of clandestine operations - especially from German, Italian, Spanish, and English agents seeking historical and archeaological information on Atlantis.
CARIO
Located at the head of the Nile River, Cairo is a cosmopolitan city, and the largest city in 1941 in the Arab world and Africa. Established in its current incarnation as a capital by the Fatimid dynasty in 986AD.
Cairo has an impressive citadel, a minaret filled skyline, and is close to the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza.
Especially surrounding the Egyptian Museum, and related antiquities dealers and the like, there is significant clandestine operations happening in Cairo. Oft times, this activity breaks out into open combat in Cairo (ulnike Alexandria, where the heavy British presence keeps outright combat to a minimum).