Creating African scenarios

[Artaud]

Originally Posted by DRG

scenario 0128 - 128 Cry Havoc 6/98 is the only Eritrean- Ethiopian one we have

Thank you. I didn't know that.

Originally Posted by DRG

Try building a scenario..... then post it here. It can be exact if you have exact details or an attempt to recreate the battle in a more general way

I will try. The war was, of course, covered extensively in African magazines and in scholarly journals to which African experts contributed. In my opinion the BBC also did a decent job.

I remember reading somewhere a really detailed article about the initial fighting in and around the town of Badme.

[MarkSheppard]

Through
https://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrad...e_register.php
https://kplanes.tumblr.com/post/1400...-cripple-fight

I made some notes for the 1977 Ogaden War with Somalia

########################

OBAT 063 - ETHIOPIA

New Units
25 x PT-76 in 1977-78
100 x BTR-40 in 1977-78
10 x ZSU-57-2 arrived 1977-78
35 x BMD-1 in 1977.
35 x ASU-57 in 1977.

Both the BMD-1s and ASU-57s were given to Cuban troops in Ethiopia, and used in a helicopter lifted (Mi-6) assault on Somalian troops in March 1978 where troops and the vehicles were airlifted into the enemy's rear; and then in conjunction with a conventional Cuban armored thrust, caught Somalian troops at Jijiga in a pincer movement.

Changes

Unit 011 T-62 has a start date of 1985
20 x T-62 were delivered in 1977 and another 50 in 1980.

########################

OBAT 088 SOMALIA

New Units
4 x IL-28 in 1965-67
7 x IL-28 in 1973-75

All were destroyed in the war by 1978.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by MarkSheppard

Through
https://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrad...e_register.php
https://kplanes.tumblr.com/post/1400...-cripple-fight

I made some notes for the 1977 Ogaden War with Somalia

########################

OBAT 063 - ETHIOPIA

New Units
25 x PT-76 in 1977-78
100 x BTR-40 in 1977-78
10 x ZSU-57-2 arrived 1977-78
35 x BMD-1 in 1977.
35 x ASU-57 in 1977.

Both the BMD-1s and ASU-57s were given to Cuban troops in Ethiopia, and used in a helicopter lifted (Mi-6) assault on Somalian troops in March 1978 where troops and the vehicles were airlifted into the enemy's rear; and then in conjunction with a conventional Cuban armored thrust, caught Somalian troops at Jijiga in a pincer movement.

Changes

Unit 011 T-62 has a start date of 1985
20 x T-62 were delivered in 1977 and another 50 in 1980.

########################

OBAT 088 SOMALIA

New Units
4 x IL-28 in 1965-67
7 x IL-28 in 1973-75

All were destroyed in the war by 1978.

In future, any OOB change selections need to be in the OOB section not this one.

The end dates for the Somali additions are clear enough but I have been unable to dig out end dates for the Ethiopian so if you or anyone else has some that would be helpful