Ossetian War Scenario - Info + Help Request

[Snipey]

Sorry about not posting this earlier, RL was really insane, but since Monday, I'm on a three week break. Don't know if I'll be gone for one of these three weeks on a field trip or not, but I managed to finish parts of the ORBAT, which is scaled 1 to 10

Russia + Ossetia:

1 Mechanised Infantry Battalion (501 men) to represent the 10 mech inf battalions, (2 from the 693rd, 2 from the 503rd, 1 from the 135th, 2 from the 70th, 2 from the 71st, and the first Ossetian mech inf bn. The battalion starts out on the Russian side, relatively close to the edge.

1 Regular Infantry Company with support(150 men) to represent the Peacekeeping Battalions of Russia (from 135th) and North Ossetia (nicknamed Alania in honor of the Alans), (1,000 men total) and the 1st Ossetian foot battalion (500 men). These units will start inside the city of Tskhinvali.

1 Composite Arty Bn (147 men) to represent the crews of the 136 arty guns, 38 rocket launchers. There are 32 MSTA-S, 80 Akatsiya (the ones with CG capability,) 12 Gvozdika, 12 D-30, 30 BM-21 Grads, 4 Smerch (BM-30) and 4 Uragan rocket launchers (BM-27). To represent all this, I am going to use 3 MSTA-S (15 men), 8 Akatsiya (32 men), 1 Gvozdika (4 men), 1 D-30 with MT-LB (10 men), 3 BM-21 (15 men) and 1 BM-30 (6 men). That's 17 guns and rocket launchers. That's 17 total, so I am going to give them 1 company (12 guns) and 1 battery (4 guns) support units, meaning 4 resupply trucks (8 men), 4 med trucks (8 men), 4 arty observers (24 men), (FOOs) 1 BMP KSh (9 men) and 1 Gaz-66 (26 men) truck with 24 infantry. My earlier gun estimate was incorrect. If anyone wants to, I can explain where all the arty came from.

1 Composite Tank Co (72 men) to represent 5 tank battalions /10. The Russians, (according to US satellite data, and this figure is corroborated by other research,) had 150 tanks. 10 T-55, 29 T-62, 81 T-72B, and 30 T-72BM. Representing this is easy: T-55 (starts inside the city), 3 T-62, 8 T-72B, 3 T-72BMs, with 46 tankers, as T-55 has 4, rest have 3. BMP-1KSh (9 men), BTR-80 (9 men), 2 MT-LB suppliers (4 men) and 2 med trucks (4 men). Tank battalions also have repair units, but these do not participate in battles.

1 Recon Company (115 men) to represent 11 recon companies who fought.

1 Communications Platoon (27 men) which can be represented by 3 BMP-1KSh, with mech inf.

1 Engineering Platoon (26 men) to represent the engineers who fought, which is basically an Engineer Platoon (24 men) on Gaz-66 truck.

Vostok-Zapad Platoon (33 men) they had 2 companies, so 1 platoon sums it up nicely

3 SpetzNaz Groups (137 men) Russians had about 1,000-1,200 SpN, and Ossetians had about an additional 300-350. Data on SpN is virtually impossible to get, but they came from the 10th and 22nd SpN brigades. Structure that was used is classified, so I figured I'd just use the groups found in the game. Additionally, 1 group starts in the city, and 2 other groups get a total of 10 BTR-80s. A group is 39 men, so three groups are 117 men, and BRT-80s have 2 drivers per car.

VDV Groups totaling 140 men I am still looking for VDV companies that might fit a structure similar to the one used in the ORBAT.

Militia 110 men Roughly 1,100 fought in South Ossetia's Volunteer Militia. Like any militia, some of these units were quite good, while others were inexperienced. I'm still trying to figure out the structure that I want to use here.

Other units possible, but unlikely They were additional supply units, but I figure we have enough supply and medical units as it is.

Totals: 1458 men


Georgian ORBAT:

1 Infantry Battalion (591 men) to represent forces of the 11th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 41st, 42nd, 43rd.

1 Infantry Company with better exp (169 men) to represent the 53rd (mostly mercs) and Naval Battalions.

Supporting units for the Bn and the Co

Arty Bn (slightly under 371 men) to represent 4 Arty Bns, and the Joint Arty BDE. Georgians had 72 D-30, 12 120-MM mortars, (assigned to arty bns not inf bns,) 11 MSTA-B, 12 Akatsiya, 24 Dana, 6 Pion, 16 BM-21 Grad, 12 GradLar, 8 RM-70, 2 BM-27. To represent this, I have 7 D-30, 1 MSTA-B, 1 Akatsiya, 2 Dana, 1 Pion, 2 BM-21 Grad, 1 GradLar, 1 RM-70.

Composite Tank-Mech Co (roughly 300 men) Georgia combined a reenforced mechanised infantry company with a tank battalion. Aside from four of these units, they also had a joint tank battalion of 60 tanks. The Georgian Tanks: 30 T-72 SIM-I, 60 Czech T-72s, 75 Ukrainian T-72s, 15 T-55s, represented by 3 T-72 SIM-I, 6 C T-72, 8 Ukr T-72, and 1 T-55. Additionally the unit has 2 mechanised infantry platoons. I'm still working on this.

Recon Co 101 men

Comms Pl And Eng Pl same as Russia's, just less experienced, which is already modified by ORBATs.

Special Forces Co (less than 151 men)

Militia - 200 men Like Ossetia, Georgia also had conscripted militia units, but their overall morale was lower than that of their Ossetian counterparts, as they weren't fighting inside their capital city.

Other units possible, but unlikely, total force will be between 1,500 - 1,800 men and I'm still working on parts of it. What do you guys think of it so far? BTW, how is the map coming?