War for South Africa

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Playtesting this scenario and finding that you won't be declaring war on anyone anytime soon. With the small OOB's that each nation start out with I'm finding that mobilizing hording oil is what is needed for the time being. South Africa has the capability to form a huge army and the resources to do so. They already have 4 corps mainly infantry but one of the corps are armoured with several tank brigades forming. They have the oil to have a large armoured force and keep an offensive going for some time.

South Africa has one Infantry Corps on the border of Namibia with 18 Infantry Brigades, 3 Lt. Tank Brigades, 3 Artillery Brigades, 4 Hvy Artillery Brigades and two Air-Defense Brigades. In the very northern portion of South Africa where it sticks in between Botswana and Namibia the SAA have 1 armoured Corps with 4 Tank Brigades, 1 Mechanized Brigades, 3 Infantry Brigades and mobilizing hvy artillery brigades. This Corps is still in the process of mobilizing forces....

Namibia started out with only six Infantry Brigades, 1 armoured Brigade and 1 Air-Defense Brigade. During this time, the Military High Command in the capital city of Windhoek, observing SAA forces beginning to mobilize on their southern and eastern border they have began to mobilze their forces, but this is taking time that they may not have much longer. Their main concern is protecting the oil fields of the southeastern border area and so have begun sending their mobilized Infantry Brigades to this location digging in, preparing for the coming invasion they know is soon.

Mobilization is slow for this poor African nation, and only have one arsenal which is producing the weapons this nation will need to defend herself. While her oil output is very good, her raw matieral output is lacking and this is the main problem her army is facing. She does not have the capacity to produce supplies at the same time as the amount of raw material she truly needs. She has managed to form 1 Army Corps HQ in the south with 11 Regular army Infantry Brigades and 4 Reserve Infantry Brigades, with 1 anti-tank Bde. This is the only AT brigade she will have since she cannot produce anything more than one artillery item at a time. The Government has focused her main production in infantry guns, while the capital is producing PP, machine guns, mortars and a few Reserve Infantry, the other towns are producing supplies for the army.

Rhodesia allied with South Africa has begun to mobilze Infantry to her northern border with Zambia as relations have worsened to the point that both sides realize that war is coming. South Africa has advised Zambia that any invasion of Rhodesian territory will be considered an act of war and has moved 1 Corps to the border with Rhodesia in order to show Lusaka ( capital of Zambia) that they mean business and are willing to intervene. This is the last Corps as I mentioned above out of the four Corps which the SAA has so far mobilzed. Their strength are as follows: 5 Infantry Brigades and 1 Tank Brigade. The Rhodesian forces have 1 Corps with 7 Infantry Brigades. The Mechanzied Bde is back at the Captial as a reserve. The other 4 Infantry Brigades are holding defensive positions around the country ready to respond to any trouble from Mozambique. She has begun to recruit Reserve Infantry, along with some Regular Infantry from the capital of Salisbury. She has two gun arsenals producing infantry guns, along with Artillery. No tanks due to low supply of oil.

Zambia has begun mobilizing her armed forces for what they feel will be the liberation of Rhodesia and bring that nation into what the Government in Lusaka call " Greater Zambia". Her oil resources are not enough to support a tank force so they are hording their oil resources in the hopes of at least being able to supply 1 Tank or Lt. Tank Brigade, but for now she has only enough oil to support her current mobilized strength. She has so far mobilized 1 Corps of Infantry with a strength of 15 Infantry Brigades, 3 Artillery Brigades with a 2nd Corps beginning to form in the western portion of the country with a mixture of Regular infantry and Reserves. Zambia has so far not agreed to any alliances with any other African nations, but talks are underway with the Namibian government for what the government controlled press in Lusaka call " Unity amoung brothers in their struggle against Colonialism". The Zambian government also has feelers out to the Government in Mozambique but that nation does not have the resources to provide a stable second front, so this front is up in the air for now.

The Governments in Namibia and Zambia are working on plan that which calls for Nambian along with Angolan troops to invade Botswana as a diversion which would bring SAA forces into conflict there in order to stave off the defeat of Botswana. Angola currently has 3 Army Corps inside Namibia which are so far only there to defend the Namibian Government, but can go over to the offensive if this new alliance works out. The Angolan forces in Namibia are as follows: 1st Army Corps - 15 Infantry Brigades, 2 Tank Brigades. 2nd Army Corps has 10 Infantry Brigades, 2 Tank Brigades and 3 Artillery Brigades with 1 MLR Brigade and the 3rd Army Corps has 4 Assault Infantry Brigades and 1 Tank Brigade only as a defensive force along the coast defending the left flank for Namibian troops.
The Angolan oil supply while good, cannot sustain offensive operations by all three Army Corps for a given period of time. As of now Angola has massed two Corps on the border with Botswana but are not yet offensive capable as of now.

Now to Botswana, who with the smallest army of them all, starting out with only 2 Infantry Brigades and 1 Lt. Tank Brigade feeling that things were about to explode sent represenitives to Pretoria in order to discuss an alliance between the two nations. South Africa not wanting to see another hostile neighbor along their northern borders accepted the request from the Botswanians and talke were held resulting in both nations signing a treaty of Defense. Botswana is resource poor but with help from Pretoria has been able to mobilize 9 more Infantry Brigades and is now calling up reserves. They have been able to upgrade one oil refinery to level 3 and are producing 7,200 oil resources a turn. While their raw material mine is producing over 500 a turn after being upgraded to level 3.

This is the situation as it stands now, with pictures to come later today showing the situation in more detail.

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Angolan border with Namibia. Angolan forces mobilizing on Namibian border.The FAPLA( People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola). was first off the mark in the new conflict, having evolved an operational plan, which for once, projected reasonable logistic support for mobile operations lasting more than two or three months. It was clear, that if South Africa wanted to assist its ally ( Botswana), it would first have to establish operational perconditions for assistance, namely to occupy Namibian territory and establish forward bases from which to intervene against Angola.

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Botswana - little to defend herself with......

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Congolese-Zambian border. Congo is allied with Zambia

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Mozambique - border area quiet no activity

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Namibian-South African border area

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Quiet before the calm in the Namibian capital

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Rhodesian border with Zambia.

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November 11th 1995 Rhodesian forces sent northwards into defensive positions as threat from Zambia grows. Mozambique begins buildup of forces on the left of the Rhodesian border. Tensions begin to increase as both sides gear up for war......

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Botswana begins moving troops to their northwestern border with Namibia as tensions increase along the entire border. Angolan troops from the 2nd Army Corps have moved into border positions along the Namibian-Botswana border. Pretoria issues threats toward Angola and Namibia.....

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Movement towards war continues on November 11th as tensions increase along the border with Namibia. South Africa is mobilizing two Corps along their common border.

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After the deadline for Angola to begin withdrawing her forces came and went, at 0400 hours January 6th ( The fifth anniversary of Namibian Independence) the Second War for Africa ( as South Africa termed this new conflict) began. Windhoek radio heralded the beginning of war by announcing that fraternal comrades in Zambia had began the liberation by launching massive artillery strikes against Rhodesian forces all along the Zambian/Rhodesian border, then proceeding with infantry attacks. News is still coming out of the area and first reports indicate that the first infantry assaults were repulsed by Rhodesian forces. In order to help our brothers in this fight against Colonialism, forces from Angola and Namibia have declared war on Botswana as a diversionary attack according to our plans in order to keep SAA units from joining the fight in Rhodesia.

News of the the Zambian invasion of Rhodesia reached pretoria half an hour later, thereby causing the Government of South Africa to declare " That a State of war now exists between our two nations" Immediately the 3rd Army Corps which had been mobilized near the Rhodesian border weeks before were now given their marching orders to move into Rhodesia and help the Rhodesian Government. Once 3rd Army Corps was already underway, news of the Angolan/Namibian invasion of Botswana was sent via emergency channels from the Botzwanan Embassy in Pretoria pleading with the South Africans for help. Pretoria had no choice but to split the armour assets from 3rd Corps and send them into battle against FAPLA/Namibian forces, where reports were coming in that the front had collapsed and Angolan tank units were advancing toward the Botswanian Capital..... Images will be provided later in the day of the days events...

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I forgot to post the dimensions for this map:

each turn is 1 week and each hex is suppose to be 72 miles a hex, but the map I used to create this in ATG was from my TOAW 3 map and the highest it goes in that editor is 50km a hex, sorry. Otherwise I think the map turned out rather well.....

[Boggit]

This looks like a really fun scenario. Have you finished it yet and will you make it available to the ATG community?[:)] The more I see of this game the more I'm tempterd to get it.

[lion_of_judah]

this is one of the scenario's which are in the works but not yet finished, has a ways to go.