...It is a large village on Crete located in Prison Valley. It was attacked and captured my heart in the afternoon of May 20, 1941 after the Ayla Prison was invested by the Germans. Mournies was not necessarily a difficult situation to size up tactically and deal with, but just a matter of slugging it out with the Greeks. So far, this straightforward attack methodology was not that bad for the Germans. The battle itself was not house-to-house in Mournies or Perivolta but against the Greek 2nd Infantry dug-in a N-S line on board 98 east of Perivolta. The Greeks adopted a defensive position that was remarkably close to the position laid out in reality.

Unfortunately, the Greek infantry is weak; with each platoon at 3-2 attack-range, there is simply no more to say in analyzing the problem through three scenarios within the 1st Prison Valley mini-campaigns than to admit glaring deficiencies in organizational makeup. The total steps for each was not getting counted, but the Greek forces must have been at least twice as under strength as it’s enemy, with poorer training and equipment. Second, rifle range is less = 2 to 3. At a third more distance in range, the German piece iris a key in providing more firepower.