Traditional turn sequencing: Axis bombard, move, combat; then Allied movement and combat. Units have attack, defense, and movement values, as well as stacking limits. Standard terrain effects. Zones of control, but there's no mandatory attacks.

Air Assault on Crete features a bonus game, Invasion of Malta--1942. Each game includes its own mapboard and counters and shares only a minimum of components with the other, however, they share the same basic rules system. Invasion of Malta--1942 re-creates the hypothetical German-Italian invasion of Malta.

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