Which Obat to use for Biafra?

[BunyipLuke]

Am thinking of doing a Nigerian-Biafrian meeting engagement. Any advice as to which Obat to use? Green using captured Nigerian equip, without the armour, comes to mind. However, they appeared to be be getting material from the french....

cheers

Luke

[Mobhack]

BunyipLuke said:
Am thinking of doing a Nigerian-Biafrian meeting engagement. Any advice as to which Obat to use? Green using captured Nigerian equip, without the armour, comes to mind. However, they appeared to be be getting material from the french....

cheers

Luke

is this against a human or the AI?. Scenario or stand-alone battle?.

Nigeria plays Nigeria - as it was a civil war - would likely be best. Player 2 will get the "rebels" flag.

Otherwise - Nigeria versus RED generates West African battles, and you mentioned using captured troops so presumably the Biafran is a human player (ot it is a scenario)?. Then just pick the sort of rifle sections you want and French kit from an appropriate OOB, or make your own RED modified OOB by adding the requisite kit etc.


Cheers
Andy

[BunyipLuke]

Tis a PBEM game. Will go with your suggestion.

cheers

Luke

[troopie]

When doing Biafrans crank down the experience by about 8 and crank up the morale about ten. They were highly morivated barely trained troops.

troopie

[BunyipLuke]

Ta Troopie. Do you have any pointers for weaponry? I have found references to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese small arms, and one reference to their scant supply of 105mm artillery, as well as a field mod of a french APC ? The Cessna(?sp?) with rocket pods as well come to mind.

cheers

Luke

[troopie]

BunyipLuke said:
Ta Troopie. Do you have any pointers for weaponry? I have found references to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese small arms, and one reference to their scant supply of 105mm artillery, as well as a field mod of a french APC ? The Cessna(?sp?) with rocket pods as well come to mind.

cheers

Luke

I've seen pix of Biafrans with SMLEs, Kar98s, FN-Fals, AK-47s, BM-59s, M1 Garands, and MAS-49s, and that was just rifles. Ammunition was short, thirty rounds per man was standard when available. Brens, MAGs, M-60s and MG-42s for support weapons. M20-Bazookas and homemade rockets for AT weapons. 81mm mortars with a few rounds. Use the guerrilla rocket unit for the ogbunigwe. This was a war rocket used in indirect and direct fire. The game can't model ujibongwe. This was a tripwire or command detonated boobytrap that could shred an entire rifle section that bunched up. Add homemade armoured personnel carriers and armoured cars, and flat bed lorries mounting 20mm or 40mm AA guns. Aircraft are B-26s, Vautour IIBs, a couple UH-1s used as bombers, Minicons mounting rockets, (a friend who was a mercenary said that a Minicon pilot, most of them Swedes btw, wasn't considered worth his beer and rations unless he could fly UNDER the top jungle canopy.) some Gloster Meteors and various odds and sods including IIRC a ME-109.

Tenth Codo mercs should be armed with FALs, Brens or MAGS, and RPG-2s or M-20 bazookas.

As you can see, one of the major problems with the Biafran military was the suicide rate among quartermaster sergeants.

troopie