[Lt. Ketch]

New battle. Same forces. Meeter, so we'll be charging at each other trying to get there first. Because I dealing with 4 visability, I bought a threesome of scouts, a pair of transports and a command vehicial that all have 40 Visability (TI/GSR). Out of my regular units, only the helecopters and the Javalin team have TI. Almost all my infanty have vis of 10 as do the hummers, but the APCs are stuck at 4.

The map is a high plataue with some hills and trees, but mostly open ground. The objectives are North/Center/South with the N and C being closer to each other with the south being more isolated. I'd decided to adapt a similar approach to this as the last battle, targeting the two northern objectives and leaving the south to itself, but that may change. more on that later. The North objective sits in a stand of trees south of an E/W road and on north of an upsidedown triangle of hills. The Center objective is in the open on the western face of the far western hill which runns nw/se. The eastern hill, which is simply a small round point, is just south and a little west of the northern V-hexes, providing an overwatch point for the open area west of of the northern objectiv. The southern hill is larger than the other two and runs NE/SW streaching almost all the way to the southern objective before stoping in a section of trees. The plan was to run the scout cars with their TI teams along the road, reaching overwatch places so we can see what's coming. 1st Ranger platoon would also run along the road, leaving it and cutting through the trees to set up defensive positions around N V-hexs. 2nd Ranger would form a defensive line on either side of the southern triagle hill to prevent the N. Koreans from using the open space there for heavy equiptment. The Airborne troops were to station themselves on the eastern hill as overwatch with the Javalin ATGM and as a reserve. The Apaches would assist in defending the southern flank and take shots of oppertunity against N. Korean units. Since the area was very open, I was warry of MANPADs or Radar guided LAD.

Jump ahead eight turns. The plan has worked for the most part. Although, I realize now that I should have pushed forward as far as I could before setting up a defense. I have no room to fall back under artillary. My troops have owned the battle field with their suppiorer spotting. Most of the N. Koreans don't even have 10 vis while the few units that do are currently buring. Let me start at the top.

My troops were able to delpoy exactly as intended without any problems. While artillary did fall (big 130+ stuff, nasty!) it didn't inpede my deployment. The first units spotted were a could of BP-40s headed for the rear along the northern boarder. Since everything is mobile, I don't have a rear and they're welcome to scout it out. I will keep my rear watched, though. It was shortly afterwards that I saw the first wave of infantry advancing along the road. To date, only one has gotten within 400 meters of the v-hexes, most of them are trapped in a depression along the road, held there by AGLs on the scout cars, MGs on the Blackhawks, infantry fire from 1st ranger and 120mm mortars from my SPMs. While the situation is well under control. I am worried by the fact that my APCs' AAMGs only have an effective range of 200 meters. I used them quite heavely in the last battle and they are wonderful about mass suppression of packed units. The threat of being overrunn by human waves is real here in many ways. I'm working on that.

In the other areas of the fight, (primarily the south), My Apaches have almost used all their ATGMs and guided rockets already. The two coppers have been able to break up two platoons worth of heavy armor that was trying to flank my left (southern) flank well before they got anywhere. Using hit and run tactics is the perfect think for Attack Coppers. The only AD units that I've seen are the 57mm mobile platforms that it looks like they got from the Russians. As it turns out, these AFVs doen't have any additional spotting gear. I've been able to destroy several without any threat to myself. Two sections of these were spotted on the Western triagle hill, two of which have been destroyed by 40mm AGLs from hummers, but I have posisiton a 84mm RR and LAW team close by for the others.

My current sitiation and the facts that are before me lead me to believe that once the situation in the north solidifies, and the enemy is more activly committed, a quick strike with the airborne troops at the southern V-hexes might be possible. My plan is to wait until I have evidence that southern troops have begone moving north to support the fighting there. I'll then be able to slip past their eastern flank (where all the AFVs were blown up) and take the southern objectives with little difficulty. This just might cause their southern units to stall and either reverse direction or seperate to combat my presense in their "rear." I just might get through this without being overrunn. With the number of points my force is worth, I know I can expect a lot, A LOT, of N. Koreans to be trying to dislodge me. While my artillary has more shots than most mobile art units, they will run out. The same goes with my coppers, which are currently my best ally. I should have bought ammo units. In any event, it is very likly to get down and dirty before it ends and I'm working on how to deal with that.