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WBWilder · #1 July 23rd, 2005, 01:24 AM

Thank you, Nightblade! I appreciate the nice AAR. I think you did rather well. Getting more than a marginal is difficult.

Its hard to avoid losses. And the absence of the omnipotent M-1A Abrams or even some upgraded M-60s would have been nice.

Cobras...well named. Their fiery venom is lethal and they strike swiftly.

More to come, my friend...WB

DRG · #2 July 23rd, 2005, 12:23 PM

Bill

I played this last night

USMC 4603
IRAQ 466

Decisive victory on turn 10

I found the LAV's did most of the work. One had ten kills and the other had 8. Once I redeployed the Marine infantry I threw out a smoke screen that any Iraqi vehicle or infantry had to pass through blind and on the other side was a solid line of Marines. I moved the arty strike points up and down in front of that line to keep the RG unhappy. After losing six LVT's I moved the rest into the rear for protection along with the Hummers and Jeeps. The LVT' are handy for keeping infantry surpressed but they are simply too big and too easy a target when tanks are lurking about.

The Cobras only accounted for 2 of the kills and one of those was an annoying ZSU-23-4

I lost 61 Marines which I think could be cut by maybe a third on replay.

Don

Artur · #3 July 23rd, 2005, 06:01 PM

I played it, got a result of 4790 to 225. Losses 36 men to 177. I lost 3 APCs and 3 Hummers 2 of them to artillery fire.

The dune in front of our forces and a smoke screen saved the day.

The ATGMs were the key here almost every rocket hit the target.This scenario is a very good practicing the usage of the ATGMs. Fortunately they could fire behind smoke without retaiation.

Artur.

desh44 · #4 July 24th, 2005, 10:52 PM

Try playing it from the Iraqi side.

I did and got a marginal and a draw and took horrible losses.

to get any good result you need to concentrate your fire on individual units until you break them. Also your first set of units take a beating but if used correctly can drain most of the missiles from the US forces.

If you keep the ZSU's back you can lure in the cobra's and you might get lucky and down or damage one..on the marginal I managed to down one this ended any chance of a US counterattack

Tom

DRG · #5 July 24th, 2005, 11:17 PM

I tried it from the Iraqi side as well and it is a tough go to get a marginal. You have to play the.... " Achmed, move your tank at the TOW maximum range and draw the infidels fire...maybe he will miss you with a couple of his missles" ...game. If you can cause enough misses you have a chance of breaking through with the T-62's. Otherwise you become target practice for the missle teams. I had limited sucess with that tactic with some of the T-55's. Usually the second one gets you if the first one doesn't

Don

desh44 · #6 July 25th, 2005, 12:23 AM

You got the way to handle it. I had one T-55 hit missed with 1 TOW and hit with one but the third finished it off but I considered it a good deal because it used up 3 enemy missiles. On the Marginal I got it was only because I got very lucky. My infantry was able to push through by targeting 1 unit at a time with at least 4-5 of my units and return fire was knocking off a man here and there and using whatever BMP's had survived to support. I managed to hit a couple of concentrations of troops with the Iraqi artillery and suppress them and knocked down one of the cobra's and the other one ran out of ammo. I had captured the objectives and at that time there was no way for the US player to take them back even though all my infantry units were understrength and pinned down

Tom

WBWilder · #7 July 25th, 2005, 01:37 AM

These are some very fascinating reports. I really enjoy the tactics used. The idea of waiting at maximum TOW range is a good one, Don.

Tom DeShelter had the idea to play this one too from the Iraqi side. I tried but could only get a draw.

It has some tense moments but ending it by 10 turns is some masterful play.

Thanks for sharing, gentlemen! I'm learning too.

WB