Horia Macellariu - Romania 1941 Soldier - Commander Points 4 Born May 10, 1894 - Craiova, Kingdom of Romania Died July 11, 1989 - Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania
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COMMANDER: Your fleet may include one Commander. This unit is attached to a friendly ship in the deployment phase. If that ship is destroyed or removed from the map, this unit is destroyed. NEAR MISS: The first time an attack would damage or destroy the unit THIS COMMANDER IS ATTACHED TO, roll a die. On a 4 or higher that attack has no effect instead. LAY DEFENSIVE MINEFIELDS - At the beginning of the deployment phase, you can mine one sector anywhere on the map. Place a marker on that sector. Whenever a Ship enters the mined sector, roll a die. On a 1, the Ship takes 1 point of hull damage. On a 2, the Ship takes 2 points of hull damage. Torpedo defense works against this damage.
Reaching the rank of second lieutenant in 1915. As adjutant to commander of the Romanian-Russian fleet on the Danube, he was given command of the the Principele Nicolae, a command ship. His distinguished service in world war one, enabled him to study further in France post war before returning to Romania in the late 1920s, he commanded a number of Romanian warship and held administrative and educational postings throughout the 1930s. By 1941 when Romania entered the war on the side of the Axis, he commanded the Romanian Destroyer squadron, and held staff position in the Romanian central command, and the German naval mission in Romania. The most significant operations that oversaw was the massive evacuations of Black Sea ports, as Soviet forces moved rapidly westwards in 1944. When Romania capitulated to soviet forces he negotiated the retreat of german naval forces to protect the people and infrastructure of Constansa and secured the German Tirpitz battery.
