Generated Campaign Troops out of ammo!!
Ever happen to anyone else 92 French peace keeping force.
3 Company of infantry all mounted 8 milan teams Company of cavalry tanks AMX 10RCs a few armored cars & 5 mortars.
Also to boost AI troops allotment 4 SAMs & 3 Lecrec MBT (nice & expensive) stuck in a corner weapons off.
Opponents Mujadeen, Afganistan, Somalia
First battle vs Mujadeen no real probs but have to be careful with my tanks. Up against about 20 old T-55s. ATGMs the real prob though poor armor on my tanks.
Second battle vs Somalia map left to right City openish 10-15 hex wide City. Decided to rush for open ground between cities & engage there. Most of force takes up defensive positions there while scouts enter his city for a look see. Enemy spotted send small force into city to engage. 2 turns later pulling out fast scouts spotted hordes of troops. Take up defesive positions to meet & wow theres hundreds of em 5 mortar tubes are not going to slow them.
Tactic, most of force defends while rest works its way round side with use of smoke to finish off damaged squads. Also got to find his arty as having to move defenders as AI pretty good at dumping 122mm arty on positions. Oh if have not played these guys very little armor just loads of troops & modified trucks.
Gets to about turn 22 I have killed all his arty bar a couple of 81mm mortars & am flanking up the map when I go to fire defending troops nothing happens. Have a look at out of ALL ammo, alarm look at others all in dire straights.
Emergency withdrawl & luckily have 2 ammo trucks who have been doing overtime supplying tanks with HE.
Turn 32 ends he still has troops so look at map. He still has about 40 squads left, what. End of battle report I lost 170 men he lost 2400+. Did the maths my force only consisted of 480 men including crews no wonder I ran out of ammo
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John
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