You have to think that the Australians were too quick to blow bridges over the Aliakmon River. By later on the 13th of April, engineers were ordered to bridge the river next to the 19th Brigade. Just to make things more interesting, the 19th Brigade radios were often out of order.
That caused some silly things to happen. One of General Mackay's intelligence officers took a message by motor cycle to the river, swam across with help from a Greek to find the headquarters.
General Blamey was still involved on 15 April. His units were mostly available, except the 16th Brigade was moving into position to the right of the 4th New Zealand Brigade.
With the British having vacated the Olympus-Aliakmon line, that left the Greeks in a salient The salient being a triangle with about 73 mile sides. They were in a spot where the Germans were about to attack the eastern side. There was also a 6,000 feet mountain range that was not very organized.
The Greek supply situation was becoming an issue. By then, the Trikkala-Kastoria road had become more important than they would have liked. This is based on the account in "Greece Crete and Syria" by Gavin Long.
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