Kilkis and Lemnos arm Crete's coast

The alternate defences reuse the armament of Kilkis and Lemnos, potentially providing four 12-inch, eight 8-inch, eight 7-inch, and twelve 3-inch guns. Historically, guns from Lemnos went to Aegina to cover the approaches to Athens while Kilkis remained a gunnery training ship, so the counterfactual redirects assets Greece already possessed. Distributed in paired coastal batteries and protected by machine guns, mortars, and 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon, these weapons would dominate likely northern approaches. The old 12-inch guns could still reach roughly 30,000 yards from elevated coastal mountings. Their historical use in harbour defence also makes a Crete deployment intelligible if the island has become Greece's southern redoubt. An Axis landing could no longer rely on destroyers and merchantmen; it would need battleships and a much larger combined operation.