Playtesters Wanted

wulfir · #24 January 31st, 2012, 02:36 PM

Ok, done.

Overall result similar.

The South: Resistance being weaker the AI pushed further and managed to knock out the on Leo 2 Dozer and with a well placed artillery strike kill off the two SP-ATGM Piranhas.
But there were four sections of Cav Scout teams with Javelins and with artillery and air support these stopped the remaining Iraqi tanks - in reality it was only two scout teams because only two of them were in a position to be re-armed. Both had about 13-14 kills, all being tanks or apcs. The AI did go for the 200 VH location in the extreme south and captured it but lost about two tank platoons and an apc or two in the rocky hills.

The Centre:
The T72 tank formations that started in the centre of the map did not as last time pass through the VH in the major built up area and strike the centre of the map region. Instead they advanced along the main road "north" towards the big intersection. Some tanks were killed, but four of them ended the map with ready status in a strange location - the deployment zone of the main Iraqi group in the "north". Gun tubes pointing "east". Some escorting infantry also followed this route but virtually all died during the battle.

The other main group in the centre, the Cascavel and Abrams units attacked in a similar fashion as last time, but now focused on the VH at 31,56 (in the small built up area near the patch of woods) and not VH 76,56 as last time. This attack was weaker than last time because the T72 did not support it.

The North:

The tanks got further here than last time but took a partly different route. The main force went through the rocky terrain in the "north", last time they skirted it to the "north" as the waypoints were set. However I had placed the Leopard tanks in the north and they killed off a large number of T72s in the initial wave before I pulled them back. Might have impacted.

The Iraqi force did slightly better against the Nordic Battle Group than the USMC setup but not much. If I had been playing it blind they would have probably done slightly better. Those two mech companies that didn't move again stayed put in their jump off locations...