Help with setup - Page 5

zovs66 · #41 January 8th, 2021, 12:20 PM

Oh, I maxed out the Units at 260.

Of that there are 191 AFV's out of which 103 are tanks (only about a third of which are T-14s), 45 BMP's and 18 BTR's plus 36 tubes of artillery, 6 ATGM and 1 FOO.

Quite a powerful force!

If we had 40 + more units slots available I could have made the entire 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya order of Lenin Red Banner Tank Division! lol

It will take several hours to a day or so to deploy and set the way points.

zovs66 · #42 January 8th, 2021, 12:21 PM

Oh, I ran out of slots for engineering assets.

wulfir you have inspired me out of my slump...

Thank you.

Tom will be thankful...lol

wulfir · #43 January 8th, 2021, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by zovs66

It will take several hours to a day or so to deploy and set the way points.

No need to go all in if it takes too much time, this is a bit of a test really. Maybe just set way points for a select few formations...?

zovs66 · #44 January 8th, 2021, 12:38 PM

Oh, no, after purchasing the Russians and seeing your beautiful man, I have to go all in. I'll see if I can' get it all setup by end of day lol.

This is a blast...

zovs66 · #45 January 8th, 2021, 09:04 PM

Wulfir,

I got it all setup. Do you want me to post it here? I also have a small text file with what I purchased.

I plotted 10 gold target hexes, but I have not plotted any turns artillery. I can come back to that later if you like.

zovs66 · #46 January 8th, 2021, 09:06 PM

Let me know.

shahadi · #47 January 17th, 2021, 04:49 AM

Soviet Everoed Airfield Hasty Defense

My OOB Soviet purchase for the Everoed Airfield hasty defense is a classic Soviet airborne drop of a battalion augmented with a spetsnaz airborne company. I choose to drop the force (from AN-12s transport aircraft) given the range to Everoed and back is beyond the combat radius of an air assault from a Warsaw Pact field (greater then 475km radius.) Furthermore, I based my unit buys on an assumption the Soviets would have to cover the Arctic Circle while cutting off Stockholm from Copenhagen to complete a plan to secure the airfield at Everoed. In the end, this was an explicit mission requirement that the Soviet force is composed of VDV units.

Additionally, I assumed the Soviet force quickly defeated the Swedes but headquarters had not time to airlift in heavy tanks, AA units, and helicopters, thus the assaulting force must hold the field until the arrival of a sealift force (meaning the NATO navies are at the bottom of the Baltic Sea or out of the area all together).

I built a force from 1985 (although in real-life the Soviets were being licked in Afghanistan with her air assault units suffering stupendous losses.) However, in this scenario I decided to depict units from the famed:

104th Guards Airborne Regiment

218th Battalion, 45th Airborne Spetsnaz Regiment.

In a subsequent post, I intend to describe the disposition of the Soviet force in the Everoed airfield area.

wulfir · #48 January 17th, 2021, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by zovs66

Let me know.

Thanks again zovs, I just played it through as the Ukr defenders, with a force drawn from the Ukr 1 Tank Bde - which from judging from the internet fields T-64 tanks.

Fighting between tanks erupted over longer distances than I had expected and even though the T-64s have a dangerous main gun it is at a disadvantage, even when entrenched. The Tank battalion at VILNA SLOBODA had about 70% losses.

Tried Ukr Skif and Javelin and Israeli MAPATS ATGMs, all do the trick. The Ukr tank launched ATGMs were less effective.

Got a marginal victory.