KG Griffin the Alt History Campaign Continues

[RecruitMonty]

Camo on the Buffalo. I might very well do a camo version. I am thinking of making a winter and desert icon too. Check out my post. I changed some things again. This time the Heavy tanks are pretty much finalised. Look in the first and last post. That is all the new stuff.

[PanzerBob]

Are you refering to the Xmas Present or is there more...drooling!!

Cheers

[PanzerBob]

War Diary, SSKG Griffin 18 Oct 1945,

Our road move to the assembly area has been a slow but steady trek. The thing, which struck us most, was we were now really in a desert, the hellish heat and sand, sand in everything. We had no real idea except some of our DAK veterans what a difference being off the coast would make. Our Arab guides were most helpful and changes in our uniforms, routines and pace have made this bearable. My main concern has been keeping my men and machine in top form, as we know the enemy lurks across these burning sands.

I’ve managed to get attached 4 Recce Gps which are leading are advance and I’m told I have 2 Bn of 17 cm on call should we have to tangle with one of these Allied Probes. This seems likely, as my Recce Hubz I sent out has spotted a large amount of activity at sundown before we stopped for our rest period. They can only be bent on our assembly area in the EL Guarir. The morning sun shall see the chaos of battle once again, for this ancient land I wonder how many times this has been so. We shall move off at midnight and hope to catch our foe of guard.

Obersturmbannführer PanzerBob

[Brummbar]

Recon: Worth twice it's weight in gold!

[PanzerBob]

War Diary, SSKG Griffin 19 Oct 1945,

First light, I knew they were out there, my two Hubz Gps had reported back and engaged enemy Recce Elements to the north and to the south of the day’s objectives. My main concern now was to get my KG turned into the enemies face before we got hit in our flank. Coming down from the north made this no easy task, as I need to do this without losing my KG’s punch.

Two actions I ordered bought time, I had ordered my Hubz to keep some distance but to harass their lead elements when possible. This had the effect of slowing them down and a bonus of getting HE harassing fire into their ranks as well. Two Hubz had expended their entire heavy ordinance in this phase and had to land to rearm. In concert with this all my forward Recce had been ordered at speed to occupy our objective areas and hold until relieved. Boxer Kp with elements of Casino and Deckrüde Kps were sent towards our north most targets. Adler Kp with the remainder moved along the roads to occupy the crossroads and the road leading west. All units were under orders to engage targets even at long range, again, to slow the enemy’s advance.

Splitting my Panzers as such has paid off as my Jaguars had some successes out to 3kms in the clear morning desert air making it possible to see out to 5kms. As morning sun quickly took its place in the sky the western road objective was taken but was under fire. The CO of Casino Kp figured 10 more minutes before he would arrive to help out. At roughly the same time the CO of Adler Kp reported in that the north most objectives were being overrun by our units. Enemy reaction there had been mostly knocked out leaving some weak resistance. I was assured that within the hour those objectives would be secured.

Several Jabo’s made rocket and cannon attacks on SS Artillerie Abt Griffin, which was sited in the Hills over looking the crossroads. One Hummel was damaged and an Ammo Halftrack was destroyed, I hoped my Hubz rearmed before another likely attack came. Within 30 or so minutes, the enemy had taken scattered KO’d vehicles across my area of concern, plus it appeared we had eliminated all armoured support in the north of the battle area.


Obersturmbannführer PanzerBob

[RecruitMonty]

There is indeed more. The first and last posts contain the new files. The first has a whole load of tank destroyers and the HS30s the last one has the improved (there were some colour issues) Heavy tank files and some other goodies. Trust me, these are new.

[PanzerBob]

You know now I'm a little muddled, where did you post these? Or can you do so here. I'm pretty sure I DO NOT have these. Thanks RM.

[RecruitMonty]

I will link them here:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=513673

and

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=578341

[PanzerBob]

RM

I only had a few of these, and certainly no Helo's.

I'm floored, like a kid in a candy store, I've gone from zero choices to I don't know were to start. I've got some work ahead, but it will look so good when trundling around the battlefield. Your armour is grand, and the air choices helos included give me much room to play with. I'm glad to see you and me are like minded when it comes to main guns on these beasts, I never thought a secondary main gun was useful much less practical...... I'm tempted to go back to work on units and restart my campaign, but the Buffalo is still in progress so I'll wait.. Many Many thanks for the hours you've obviously put into these gems.

Bravo Zulu to you my friend.

[RecruitMonty]

Thank you. It is always nice when someone finds a use for something I have made.

The stuff here, I hasten to add, is not all WWII and 50s era. Most of the jets and so on are, minus the VTOL, although the two early designs (VJ 101 C) were 50s prototypes. But the Helicopters, well those are mostly 60s, 70s and 80s designs I am afraid. At a push the Do. 205 Could be used as a post WWII helicopter. But only at a push.

Armour wise you should not have ay problems. You have two E-100s, one with a 128mm gun the other with the 150mm gun and the E-90 (Kaisertiger - you are free to change the name, I made it up) as well as two lighter Tiger IIIs which, I thought, might serve as Tiger II Ds. They are up armoured and reconfigured Tiger IIs anyway. In my OOB they serve, first as interim heavy tanks, until the E-90 is finished, and then as MBTs alongside the Panther IIs until the Leopards come along (65 or something like that).

As for APCs, the HS30s and SPz 252s make a nice addition to any Kampfgruppe, especially now that they have been improved (HS30s are bigger and the SPz. 252 looks nicer than it did before) Both weapon systems provide their own support variants so at least you will have uniformity in the Kampfgruppe with whichever you pick. I have the 252s as precursors to the HS30 L/HS30 S models which kick in in the 50s. The 252s are not retired until 1958, I think.

I am thinking of making some new icons for a light recon tank (the Leopard was its name apparently - it was based off of the Hetzer Chasis) and an E-100 Schützenpanzer variant. Obscene as it may sound, that is just what some genius had in mind for them. I can't think of a better vehicle in which to stick troops in. Very safe. I need to look at some more schematics first in order to figure out where the engine will go. As you are working in a more combat orientated time line I should imagine you might like the Büffels to be equipped with some ATGM type equipment for support work. I can do that too. Infact I will do it now.

Here they are: Camo variant (x2 turret and hull) and grey variant (turret only) with the added ATGM. Do use the Grey Icons too. They look much better, in my opinion, that way.