Scenario: Egyptian-Libyan war miniseries (1977)

[shahadi]

I played the third of the miniseries.

Fun. Interesting. Entertaining scenario.

I decided to approach the target from the swamp area after having found several clear paths. I assessed the Libyans would consider the swamp as a barrier and position their main forces orientated to the left, top, and bottom of their camp.

Observations

Working with a weapons platoon is problematic. Consider inserting RPG and MMG teams within the two platoons. This decision would have been made before "dust off" anyway.

The Egyptian company is short a platoon. Oh well, it was Donald Rumsfeld who said, "...you go to war with the army you have..."

From the scenario text: "You are a commander of two Egyptian commando heliborne assault companies and a weapons company."

I got a marginal victory



Insert RPG and MMG teams within a platoon on the same bird

Thanks SaS TrooP!

[SaS TrooP]

What do you mean "short by platoon"? Any sources indicating they should have 4 combat platoons? Or as "short by platoon" you mean lack of weapons platoon?

I got no data here, but there are still many armies that keep weapons company under battalion command and have no weapons platoon whatsoever.

[shahadi]

Originally Posted by SaS TrooP

What do you mean "short by platoon"? Any sources indicating they should have 4 combat platoons? Or as "short by platoon" you mean lack of weapons platoon?

I got no data here, but there are still many armies that keep weapons company under battalion command and have no weapons platoon whatsoever.

Sorry. I am saying the commando company (not two as said in the scenario text) has only two rifle platoons (combat platoons as you say) rather than three rifle platoons.

While weapons companies are under battalion command and their teams train together under separate leaders than the rifle companies, when weapon teams are tasked to rifle companies, they are nominally done so by weapons squad to rile platoon or weapons platoon to rifle company. A battalion may have three companies normally, with a weapons company of three platoons to support the rifle companies.

I checked the database utility for the Egyptian OOB and found the commando company, formation 210, is available between '60 to '68. Although there are no helicopter commando formations, all the Egyptian rifle companies, including the commando company, are composed of three rifle platoons.

So, if your rifle company of two platoons was by design, no problem with me as I cited Rumsfeld, "...you go to war with the army you have..."

Na zdrowie!