10_16: The Pied Piper of Hameln - MC 04 North German Plain '85

Near Hameln, on the River Weser, June 10th 1985: A folk tale, from the Middle Ages, has it that a magical piper drew all the rats in Hameln to the river and drowned them. When it came time to pay, the people refused, so the piper played again, and all the children were drawn to him and he took them all away. This situation is similar, when the 20th Guards Army launched a heliborne assault on the bridges at Hameln, it drew a lot of attention from NATO, then in turn from the Warsaw Pact forces, trying to capture a crossing intact. The attack helicopters escorting the landing were required urgently elsewhere and departed almost as soon as the landings were complete. [Size: small] Designer note: Play as Warsaw Pact Human vs. the AI, or as Human vs. Human.