<t>Whilst it is easy for us all to speculate on how ones army or its allies would perform. Certainly for two of us (Americans + British) one factor cannot be added to its rating.<br/>
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Simply put, the others where fighting on their own soil or where in danger of being invaded. I do not think ...

<t>What would really add flavor -- er, flavour to the BAOR -- is some sound bites from units that are taking casualties, being wiped out, or facing overwhelming odds.<br/>
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"This is Alpha 6, help! help!"<br/>
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"Charlie 6 does not respond."<br/>
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"Ambush! Ambush! This is --" (static ...

<r>interesting points there, im wondering though, if the russians realised that the americans did or could wield a offensive capability, which would threaten their advance into BAOR territory, would they not have tried to pull the American forces teeth?<br/>
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1/ how more likely where U.S forces ...

<r>destructive inbreeding, an interesting comment, one that probably is true maybe the early 20th century, the use of battalion or regimental force moves to an area of conflict, whereupon the unit is replaced on mass, works well.<br/>
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Take our own 'vietnam' northern ireland, by using whole ...

<t>morale is a tricky bit to work out, BAOR forces work on the regimental system, where it is i suppose indoctrinated into you that your Regiment/Battalion is the best. Most regiments are and have been recruited from the same area for over 300 years.<br/>
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familys can trace their lines back not ...

no they did,nt at that time, though chieftans could take heavy damage, a few where in the iraq-iran war and took upwards of 5 or 6 hits off iranian tanks before brewing up

<r>Firstly, i have the book chieftans, set in the 80s, when we were just introducing Challenger,(actually the shir tank, we where selling it to iran before the shah got overthrown, so when he went we thought hey lets keep it, another fact about the shir/challenger was the first ones had to run their ...

<r>interesting, was doing some looking up myself, we had a 30mm rarden cannon, firing clips of 3, the Hind could take the punishment from our cannon, unless we hit either of the rocket pods or the two rotors (mainly the nuts,not the blades) also the glass covering the pilots was believed to ...

<t>well the basis of the fighting in our area was to slow the 3rd shock army down till the mittleland canal, noone told us what to do after that! not sure if that was a good sign!<br/>
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initial soviet thrusts where by tank heavy units, all category one units, latest kit, supported by mass ...

<r>yes we did split up our units, so here goes, there are two types of battlegroup, 1 armour heavy and one infantry heavy<br/>
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Armour<br/>
battlegroup hq<br/>
Two squadrons chieftans/challengers<br/>
one hq troop 2 mbts rest sultans and fv432<br/>
4 troops of three though for war reinforced to ...

<t>well my regiment though back in england by 89, had been split into 2, 1 armoured recce sqn with scimitars supplied a 8 vehicle troop to each of the battlegroups 5 in total, the other two sqns where kept as divisional recce, these sqns where armed with scorpions of 4 troops of 4 and 1 assault ...

<t>it the early 80s i was part of a troop of scimitar tanks which took trials in anti-helicopter trials, basically we where connected to a tape recorder plus other instruments and closed down, and had to try to engage helicopters, Lynx attack helicopters posing as Hind gunships and using their ...

what units of the BAOR are going to be used in the game? are they being represented as battle groups (which where standard) or at least when i served there.