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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.

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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).

LYBIA

italy gained influence in North Africa from the Ottoman Empire after the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 to 1912. In 1934, Italy consolidated its three North African colonies of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan into a single entity of Italian Libya.

In 1940, the British Operation Compass destoryed the Italian 10th Army, and gave significant control of the Lybian desert to the British. In early 1941, Germany sent in fresh troops and equipment, the Afrika Korps, under command of General Erwin Rommel. Rommel's Operation Sonnenblume pushed the British back behind the Egyptian border, and recaptured all of Lybia save for the port city of Tobruk.

TOBRUK

Tobruk, port, northeastern Libya. It was the site of Antipyrgos, an ancient Greek agricultural colony, and thereafter a Roman fortress guarding the Cyrenaican frontier. The town later became a way station on the coastal caravan route.

At the start of the campaign, Tobruk is currently under siege by the Afrika Korps. There's a garrison of British and Australian troops holding Tobruk currently, supported by British navy and British and independent blockade runners in the Medeterranian Sea.