Blindly We Fight AAR

[Mad Russian]

This AAR will be with the BAOR and will be using full Fog of War.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Game Settings.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Player Settings.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Realism Settings.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

This briefing is a bit more expansive.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Here is the Tac Map for the scenario.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Here is our Order of Battle.

Here we go. I've said this game is Tank Centric, which as far as I've seen it is. BUT, here we are in a battle I have NO TANKS in. So much for this battle being tank centric.

This should be a good scenario to see how the infantry part of the game plays out.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Hmmmm....can the Soviets cross that river?

That's the biggest question in our defense of the area.

I'm sure they can. Much of their equipment is amphib capable. Question is will this Ruskie commander use that capability?

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

The river runs through the town and there is only a single bridge over the main river.

How to defend this.

At the very least considering amphib capacity for both sides, we don't want to get our backs to the river and have to try to retreat across it under fire.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Here is the north half of our AO defense.

The main route is mined to either slow the momentum of the attack, split the attack or force it to go to either side of the mine block area.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

The bottom half of the AO defense showing the mine block.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

The battle plan is for us to stay fluid. So that we can respond to a threat from wherever the Soviets come at us.

We have the screen out front and the mine block on the road.

Groups A, B and C are set to reinforce that part of the line the Soviets push.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

My kind of action! Starts within the first few seconds of the game starting.

Immediately the Soviet recon elements penetrate the minefield, apparently at no cost and attempt to overrun our forward position.

They are engaged before they even know they aren't alone.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

We should have opened fire before they were right on top of us. They surprised us as well with how fast they penetrated our perimeter.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Having 2 vehicle sections doesn't give you much staying power when you lose them both.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

The Scimitars are moving north to let the mine belt do it's damage and not get pinned by it. All the while moving and shooting.

More Soviet Recon losses.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

After the initial contact the sides put some distance between themselves.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

You can give formation orders if you like by Shift+left click on all those involved.

Here I've given a formation order to move forward.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

We lost the Soviet Recon units...where did they go?

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Seems they are moving towards the main road.

Good Hunting.

MR