Greetings folks. Thought I'd take a break from WW2 and see how the big boys play.
Anyway started out with an Israeli assault against Syrian T-55's, ATGM's, dug-in infantry and what-not. It seemed pretty daunting, what with the heavily armored Izzy force in the north having no infantry whatsoever while down south there were only reconditioned Sherman M51's to support the mech infantry. Plus there's a baker's dozen scattered objectives that have to be taken in only a dozen turns.
After crawling along for a few turns I tried pressing forward impetuously with predictable results. Syrian defenses were too strong, there wasn't enough arty for suppression plus smoke (half the time smoke tanks would get whacked trying to position themselves), and all I could manage was three VH's at the cost of over half the tank force. Somehow got a draw (about 2300 to 4450).
There's an old thread concerning scenario #1 that led to a discussion about how much more difficult SPMBT is from SPWW2. Somebody said something about how the bundled scenarios weren't meant to be easy, and someone else mentioned a particular ten-turner (also from AIW; #67 I think it was) from which you're lucky to escape with a draw.
So was my baptismal episode typical? It was fun anyway, but next time it would be nice to have some infantry with the heavies
. Cheers