The Greeks stood a better chance of holding back the Persian Army at Thermopylae than here. But there opponent here was the greatest army of its age, the Wehrmacht of Germany, the elite Parachute Engineers of the 3rd Division; a very respected branch. Their immediate opponent, the Greek 8th Infantry Regiment , was tough with decent morale. The most glaring deficiency was Its inability to match German modern firepower infantryman pound for pound. In PoCr, the German PoCr platoon has a firepower of 6-3(5-3 for an para.engineer platoon; 3-2 for a Greek infantry platoon.)

The Germans had 73 overall points of firepower,, the. Greeks 68. In the end it did not matter much. Both sides lost very little: Germany lost 5 points, Greece 3. But Greece couldn’t stop Engineers with their breakout