Your greatest victory and worst defeat

Uberpooch · #1 April 3rd, 2007, 01:15 PM

I recall that SP2 campaign. As I recall, the final mission involved an assault on a Soviet-held city, which was across a river with only a couple of crossing points. That scenario was a nightmare, because getting to the bridges meant exposing your units to fire in the flanks from Soviet T-80s for a kilometer or so, and there were so many Soviets that there was no easy way to take them out. After 6-7 tries, I finally won the scenario through a combination of prodigious use of smoke ammo, leapfrogging advances, and sheer luck. Only about a third of my units survived the battle, but the final victory still ranks as one of my favorites.

My worst defeat came in another NATO-WP campaign (I can't recall which one). On the first turn of the first scenario, a MiG came in on a bombing run. One of my Stinger units successfully shot it down, whereupon it managed to crash right on top of my HQ unit, wiping it out. Dead HQ=campaign over.

pdoktar · #2 April 4th, 2007, 11:06 AM

You may here be referring to the extremely hard Fulda gap campaign, that came withn the SP2 game. Never got that far to assault a soviet city, but those t80s and extreme difficulties ring a bell here..

Sarunas · #3 April 18th, 2007, 08:06 AM

I recently successfully defended German villages with a mixed battalion kampfgruppe of 1 tank coy and 2 pzgr coys plus support elements, spring 1987, versus circa two regiments of soviet combined mechanised/armored troops (>200 apc's and 148 tanks destoryed, 3000 troops KIA, 10 aircraft downed) for the loss of maybe 70 people and 7 Leo2A4 (all to PGM's) and 5-6 Marders and Luchs'. What a two-night nailbiter that one was!

pdoktar · #4 April 21st, 2007, 06:53 AM

Maybe in real-life it might even take three nail-biting nights.

Marcello · #5 April 22nd, 2007, 05:52 PM

"The Iraqi army has had the Soviet version of MLRS since the early 80's I think. It is used with HE, Cluster munitions and Chemical weapons."

In real life the iraqis used a variety of MRLS of various origin (soviet,brazilian,italian etc.). They were however generally used with unitary warheads. Cluster munitions were practically unavailable. At most they might have had a few of them for the few Orkan MRLS they got from Yugoslavia. But we are speaking about an handful of rockets for two vehicles, if that.
Iraqi insurgents do have MRLS, but they are built around stuff like the BM-14/Type 63.
Currently government forces lack any artillery beyond mortars.

Marek_Tucan · #6 June 2nd, 2007, 04:29 PM

Yep, Fulda Gap campaign was the killer...

jomni · #7 July 26th, 2007, 02:52 AM

My greatest victory (against AI):

I was playing an Ethiopia vs. Somalia campaign. In my latest battle I killed 1,000 Somali troops and destroyed scores of vehicles. While only losing 13 men, 1 BMP, and 1 T-65.

Those Somali (is this correct?) just sent waves and waves of Civilians, Militia riding in assorted technicals (they have some T-55 tanks though). This reminds me of Black Hawk Down. Of course these could not stand the might of conventional Ethiopian forces. Poor Somalians, their lack of government makes waging a conventional war a disaster. But maybe a city battle would be more challenging.