Need testers for "Stand at Kamina".

[A_Rude_Gesture]

Thanks a lot for the tips Wulfir. As I said, I'm all new to designing scenarios and so I haven't been able to work out all the finetuning yet. I also think that the event that I chose to portray might have been a bit difficult to replicate in a scenario, but that said I aint giving up!
Oh and the historical outcome of the battle was, at least to the best of my knowledge, UN losses 0 (confirmed).
Enemy losses Unknown, except for two knocked out AC's.

[desh44]

had a chance to play this one....question? did all the UN force involved have SMG's or was is just the troops at the checkpoint. It puts them at a real disadvantage with not cover...as soon as you dismount you are under fire. Also are the AT crews which arrive late supposed to have no ammo for their main weapons. I noticed in the text you added the APC's to allow the troops to get to the trench line...another possibility would be to cut and past the town and place it closer to the trench line. this one looks promising. do you have an email addy i can send more complete report. I have been doing testing also with Wild Bill so I can give you a fairly complete report

Best
Tom

[wulfir]

desh44 said:
did all the UN force involved have SMG's or was is just the troops at the checkpoint. It puts them at a real disadvantage...

IIRC that's historically accurate for the Swedes. I don't know about the Irish, Indians etc.

desh44 said:
Also are the AT crews which arrive late supposed to have no ammo for their main weapons.

I think it's a feautre of the Swedish OOB - infantry AT teams carry no HE for some reason and overall less rounds than other OOBs using the GRG (Carl Gustav).

[A_Rude_Gesture]

Thanks again for all the tips, just keep 'em coming. I'm putting the finishing touches to v.2 of the scenario as we speak. In regards to your question about the armament of the Swedish UN troops, desh44, they were lightly armed which proved to be a big problem throughout their stay in Katanga.

//A_Rude_Gesture dtoftemar@yahoo.com

[desh44]

Thanks for the Info....I was not real familiar with the TO&E if those units and it always helps when testing a scenario to know this info.
Tom

[A_Rude_Gesture]

Well...I've finished v.2 of the scenario. Hopefully this has improved the scenario a bit. And as always I'm happy to get suggestions as to what could improve it, but unless there are some major work needed I'll be moving on to a new scenario depicting the Swedish UN Batallion in Katanga.
Thanks for all the usefull tips and thanks a bunch for the extensive playtest report, desh44

EDIT1
V3 is up

[A_Rude_Gesture]

Well, version 3, hopefully the final version of the scenario is up. My next endeavour will probably be Operation Morthor, portraying the fighting in Elizabethville on the September 13, the day before the fighting at Kamina. So it will be a nightfight in a city. But a couple of other options are available so don't count on it being OP Morthor...
And once again I would like to thank all of you who have playtested the scenario and particularly Desh44 for his battlereports! Thanks and thanks again guys!