New scenarios "Red Dawn Series"

[Mesh]

Thanks for these scenarios, so far I've played the ones that came with the latest patch and they've been great! I think your design on these is very, very good. Force balance is well done and makes for entertaining fights, you get the feeling that you have to preserve your forces while simultaneously repulsing a numerically superior opponent.

The maps are excellent and evocative. I've enjoyed the wide open spaces of these scenarios, since usually I tend to play on more crowded scenery maps. The American TI equipped tanks are murderous in these battles!

As defensive battles against the AI these generally tend to be on the easy-medium level of difficulty, which is fine by me. My toughest fight was easily Goodland, having to cope with the older National Guard kit against the Cubans was something completely different from Robstown and I liked that change of pace.

Definitely planning on playing the newer ones too. I hope you keep up with the series!

[Oche]

Originally Posted by Mesh

Thanks for these scenarios, so far I've played the ones that came with the latest patch and they've been great! I think your design on these is very, very good. Force balance is well done and makes for entertaining fights, you get the feeling that you have to preserve your forces while simultaneously repulsing a numerically superior opponent.

The maps are excellent and evocative. I've enjoyed the wide open spaces of these scenarios, since usually I tend to play on more crowded scenery maps. The American TI equipped tanks are murderous in these battles!

As defensive battles against the AI these generally tend to be on the easy-medium level of difficulty, which is fine by me. My toughest fight was easily Goodland, having to cope with the older National Guard kit against the Cubans was something completely different from Robstown and I liked that change of pace.

Definitely planning on playing the newer ones too. I hope you keep up with the series!

Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked them. I will continue with the series for sure. Keep on firing.

[Oche]

Ambush at Vauxhall, "Red Dawn" Series.

While the main Soviet army group with the aid of the Cuban and Nicaraguan Army wreak havoc throughout Western USA and with key passes in the Rockies secured, 3 other army groups are rolling across the Bering Straight cutting the Alaskan Pipeline through Canada with the intention to link up in the middle. The underestimated Canadian army with their scattered pockets of stiff resistance in key roads across Canada have not slowed the Red Advance but it has made it costly enough. In this battle a Soviet Motorized Rifle Battallion leads the assault on the small town of Vauxhall supported by a Tank Battallion encountering well supported and motivated dug in Canadian Infantry.

[Oche]

Marines at Lake Texana, "Red Dawn" Series.

The Cuban army with the support of Soviet forces advances through Southern Texas both inflicting and taking heavy casualties along the way. While approaching Lake Texana, a Cuban Rifle Regiment size force well supported by armor and artillery bumps into delaying elements of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, This would be the USMC first battle against the Cubans in US soil.

[centurion77]

Originally Posted by Oche

Ambush at Vauxhall, "Red Dawn" Series.

I like this one!
Gives me ideas about scenarios with BATUS and the German troops from CFB Shilo.

[Oche]

Delaying action at Port Lavaca, "Red Dawn" Series.

Elements from the Cuban 24th Infantry Division supported by tanks from the 12th Armored Regiment are delayed by Texan National Guard units West near the town of Port Lavaca, Texas.

*(Map included in Zip file)

[Oche]

Old Ironsides meet the 1st Guards, "Red Dawn" Series.

Units from The US 1st Armored Division encounter a mixed Regiment sized force of the Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army pushing north on Highway 281-31 a few miles south of San Antonio, Texas.

*(Map included in Zip file)

[Kurt Montandon]

Originally Posted by Oche

Old Ironsides meet the 1st Guards, "Red Dawn" Series.

Units from The US 1st Armored Division encounter a mixed Regiment sized force of the Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army pushing north on Highway 281-31 a few miles south of San Antonio, Texas.

Damn ... it's really important to remember the base-model M1 isn't an unstoppable tank-killing machine.

I'm too used to the M1A1 from later scenarios.

[Miketee10022]

Old Ironsides is an *excellent* scenario. Very hard to win more than a marginal victory (as the US player) in its original form. I have had fun tweaking this one, where the US Force is augmented with captured enemy weaponry - some anti-tank guns, a few captured (from the Cubans in other battles!) lighter vehicles (BRDM-2's) and a few outdated helicopters to ferry troops around. Add some Piper cubs for spotting, and it's a real slugfest! I set the Abrams to only go after the heavier vehicles and let the missles, Cobras, and AT-guns pick off the lighter APC's. Lastly, I add my favorite piece of game-chrome: motorcycles! Yeah - a couple of local bands of Hell's Angels get into the fray at some point. They give meaning to the phrase: live fast, die young, and make a good looking corpse!

Anyway - thanks again for this amazing series of scenarios!

[Miketee10022]

Originally Posted by Mesh

Thanks for these scenarios, so far I've played the ones that came with the latest patch and they've been great! I think your design on these is very, very good. Force balance is well done and makes for entertaining fights, you get the feeling that you have to preserve your forces while simultaneously repulsing a numerically superior opponent.

The maps are excellent and evocative. I've enjoyed the wide open spaces of these scenarios, since usually I tend to play on more crowded scenery maps. The American TI equipped tanks are murderous in these battles!

As defensive battles against the AI these generally tend to be on the easy-medium level of difficulty, which is fine by me. My toughest fight was easily Goodland, having to cope with the older National Guard kit against the Cubans was something completely different from Robstown and I liked that change of pace.

Definitely planning on playing the newer ones too. I hope you keep up with the series!

Totally agree with the above! This is a GREAT series of battles. I confess I have been 'tweaking' some of these Red Dawn scenarios and enjoying my own variants. This is excellent work - my hat is off to you!