KG Rommel

[wodin]

Another good scenario...really enjoyed it. Though there hasn't been one I haven't enjoyed yet. I have found though I usually win first time playing a scenario so far, saying that I always feel I'm loosing whilst playing. Though I think I will have to star with limited orders from now on.

Greetings from the Inspectorate of the General Staff -

To: Colonel, commanding KG Rommel

* In the battle of "NM_WGS KG Rommel" your forces worth 3,567 points secured 58% (9661 vs 7122) of awarded victory points against an enemy force worth 7,441 points. The Inspectorate congratulates you and rates your performance as excellent.

* Your force has claimed 8 Recce, 71 Tank, 53 APC, 26 Inf, 1 SP AT, 14 HQ and 12 AD enemy subunits.

* Remaining force tally -
Active: 4 Recce, 1 Tank, 19 APC, 14 Inf, 4 SP AT, 9 HQ, 15 SP Arty, 11 Utility and 2 Air.
Fallen out: 10 Tank, 16 APC, 16 Inf, 3 SP AT, 1 AD and 1 SP Arty.
Destroyed: 2 Tank, 6 APC, 3 Inf, 1 SP AT and 3 AD.

* By the end of the battle your units had a 86% average readiness and a command cyle duration of 14 minutes.

* Your force took significant - 10% - permanent losses and must refit for for a moderate time to recover the 47 fallen out subunit(s).

Staff evaluation complete.

FINAL TALLY OF BATTLE LOSSES:
- West German Forces:
Fuchs - 1 starting.
Gepard A1 - 4 starting, 1 fallen out and 3 destroyed.
Headquarters - 5 starting.
Jaguar 2 - 4 starting, 1 fallen out and 1 destroyed.
Jeep MG - 4 starting.
Leopard 1A3 - 13 starting, 10 fallen out and 2 destroyed.
M109A3G - 6 starting.
M113GA1 - 16 starting, 5 fallen out and 5 destroyed.
M577A2 C2V - 4 starting.
MAN N 4510 - 6 starting.
Marder 1 A2 [m] - 24 starting, 11 fallen out and 1 destroyed.
MARS - 4 starting and 1 fallen out.
MBB F-4F - 2 starting and 2 withdrawn or exited.
MG3 Medium MG - 3 starting and 2 fallen out.
PzGren ATGM - 9 starting, 4 fallen out and 1 destroyed.
PzGrenadiers - 21 starting, 10 fallen out and 2 destroyed.
PzMrs M113 A1G - 6 starting.
Unimog 1300 L - 2 starting.
VW 181 Kuebel - 3 starting.
Wiesel 1 TOW - 4 starting and 2 fallen out.

- Soviet Forces:
122mm D-30 - 18 starting.
9P149 AT-6 Spiral - 6 starting and 1 fallen out.
BMD-2 [g] - 10 starting and 4 fallen out.
BMP-2D [g] - 4 starting, 3 fallen out and 1 destroyed.
BMP-Ksh - 5 starting, 3 fallen out and 1 destroyed.
BRDM-2 [g] - 8 starting, 6 fallen out and 2 destroyed.
BTR-60PB - 3 starting and 3 fallen out.
BTR-80 - 73 starting, 34 fallen out and 8 destroyed.
BTR-ZD Skrezhet - 8 starting and 8 fallen out.
Headquarters - 17 starting and 10 fallen out.
Heavy MG - 6 starting, 2 fallen out and 1 destroyed.
Mechanized Rifle - 54 starting and 23 fallen out.
MiG-23MF Flogger - 2 starting and 2 withdrawn or exited.
MiG-23MLD Flogger - 2 starting and 2 withdrawn or exited.
MT-LB [w] - 18 starting.

[Ron]

Nice one, you seemed to have preserved a significant portion of your force, especially the HQs. I lost a fair number of them in between Deckbergen and Lehmbreite when the Warsaw forces came out of the woods and I wasn't able to reposition in time. My bad for initial placement. In addition a small force of about 10 T-80s drove right up and through Groggenweiden, including a PG Bn which only claimed 3 T-80s in response. The T-80s displaced and destroyed considerable PGs, Marders and HQ Utility vehicles. Not sure what was up with that, but the only oddity I have seen thus far. A PG Bn was untouched in Oldendorf - the AI made a couple feints there then backed off so I never did reposition them. A platoon of Jaguar AT did pretty well.



Greetings from the Inspectorate of the General Staff -

To: Colonel, commanding KG Rommel

* In the battle of "KG Rommel 1311" your forces worth 3,567 points secured 88% (14775 vs 1989) of awarded victory points against an enemy force worth 7,441 points. The Inspectorate congratulates you and rates your performance as excellent.

* Your force has claimed 6 Recce, 64 Tank, 66 APC, 34 Inf, 3 SP AT, 12 HQ, 11 AD, 3 Arty, 4 Utility and 2 Air enemy subunits.

* Remaining force tally -
Active: 3 Tank, 15 APC, 17 Inf, 6 HQ, 2 AD, 12 SP Arty, 8 Utility and 2 Air.
Fallen out: 2 Recce, 3 Tank, 17 APC, 13 Inf, 5 SP AT, 3 HQ, 2 AD, 4 SP Arty and 2 Utility.
Destroyed: 2 Recce, 7 Tank, 9 APC, 3 Inf, 3 SP AT and 1 Utility.

* By the end of the battle your units had a 80% average readiness and a command cyle duration of 24 minutes.

* Your force took significant - 17% - permanent losses and must refit for for a moderate time to recover the 51 fallen out subunit(s).

Staff evaluation complete.

Estimated subunit states at present time:

- West German Forces:
Fuchs - 1 starting.
Gepard A1 - 4 starting, 2 fallen out.
Headquarters - 5 starting, 2 fallen out.
Jaguar 2 - 4 starting, 2 fallen out, 2 destroyed.
Jeep MG - 4 starting, 2 fallen out, 2 destroyed.
Leopard 1A3 - 13 starting, 3 fallen out, 7 destroyed.
M109A3G - 6 starting, 3 fallen out.
M113GA1 - 16 starting, 6 fallen out, 5 destroyed.
M577A2 C2V - 4 starting, 1 fallen out.
MAN N 4510 - 6 starting, 1 fallen out, 1 destroyed.
Marder 1 A2 [m] - 24 starting, 11 fallen out, 4 destroyed.
MARS - 4 starting.
MBB F-4F - 2 starting.
MG3 Medium MG - 3 starting, 1 destroyed.
PzGren ATGM - 9 starting, 4 fallen out, 1 destroyed.
PzGrenadiers - 21 starting, 9 fallen out, 1 destroyed.
PzMrs M113 A1G - 6 starting, 1 fallen out.
Unimog 1300 L - 2 starting.
VW 181 Kuebel - 3 starting, 1 fallen out.
Wiesel 1 TOW - 4 starting, 3 fallen out, 1 destroyed.

[wodin]

Seems we took out roughly the same amount of units..but you held them back alot better than me..but lost more troopers.

Looking at the point disparity it seems odd..Took out the same enemy more or less..I had more troopers till kicking at the end but the there is a HUGE disparity in VP. I'm sure Mad Russian said Victory Locations aren't necessarily worth the losses..yet this disproves that.

At first the enemy tried the center but was fought off..then went around to the left and it was here I didn't really have enough assets..also my Tank platoon was destroyed by T80's with out killing one Russian! This was a major blow for the left side defense..so the enemy managed to get across on the right and take those VL a fair few points I think 4 or 5 thousand. I also had units set up on my right and there wasn't a threat there so they wher eout of the game for a fair while.

Thinking about it it was the left hand side after they took out my tank platoon without a scratch where they got so many VP's..if my Tanks had performed abit better and held them up and if I had one or two right hnad side units there I'd have stopped them getting those to VL's. Still i was happy with a close call..if I smashed the AI in every scenario I'd think less of the game.

[Showtime 100_MatrixForum]

Just had my first run at this one as well. I was blindsided by the Soviet advance from the woods between Deckbergen and Lehmbreite and they drove over the bridge before I could manage to so much as scratch their paint, but since my C3 was in much better shape than theirs I pulled off an amazingly lucky airstrike that destroyed 16 T-80s on the bridge and a fortunately-placed ICM rocket artillery barrage that wiped out all but two of the rest, which left it open to be retaken. I got pretty solidly mangled in Hessisch Oldendorf since I misplaced my armor, but I managed to just barely hold it until the end. There's no way I could have lasted much longer.

Greetings from the Inspectorate of the General Staff -

To: Colonel, commanding KG Rommel

* In the battle of "NM_WGS KG Rommel" your forces worth 3,567 points secured 88% (12955 vs 1710) of awarded victory points against an enemy force worth 7,441 points. The Inspectorate congratulates you and rates your performance as excellent.

* Your force has claimed 8 Recce, 77 Tank, 53 APC, 30 Inf, 3 SP AT, 10 HQ and 12 AD enemy subunits.

* Remaining force tally -
Active: 4 Tank, 20 APC, 22 Inf, 4 SP AT, 9 HQ, 15 SP Arty, 7 Utility and 2 Air.
Fallen out: 2 Recce, 5 Tank, 16 APC, 9 Inf, 3 SP AT, 3 AD, 1 SP Arty and 4 Utility.
Destroyed: 2 Recce, 4 Tank, 5 APC, 2 Inf, 1 SP AT and 1 AD.

* By the end of the battle your units had a 84% average readiness and a command cyle duration of 28 minutes.

* Your force took significant - 10% - permanent losses and must refit for for a moderate time to recover the 43 fallen out subunit(s).

Staff evaluation complete.

Estimated subunit states at present time:

- West German Forces:
Fuchs - 1 starting.
Gepard A1 - 4 starting, 3 fallen out, 1 destroyed.
Headquarters - 5 starting.
Jaguar 2 - 4 starting, 3 fallen out, 1 destroyed.
Jeep MG - 4 starting, 2 fallen out, 2 destroyed.
Leopard 1A3 - 13 starting, 5 fallen out, 4 destroyed.
M109A3G - 6 starting, 1 fallen out.
M113GA1 - 16 starting, 7 fallen out.
M577A2 C2V - 4 starting.
MAN N 4510 - 6 starting, 4 fallen out.
Marder 1 A2 [m] - 24 starting, 9 fallen out, 5 destroyed.
MARS - 4 starting.
MBB F-4F - 2 starting.
MG3 Medium MG - 3 starting, 1 fallen out.
PzGren ATGM - 9 starting, 6 fallen out, 1 destroyed.
PzGrenadiers - 21 starting, 2 fallen out, 1 destroyed.
PzMrs M113 A1G - 6 starting.
Unimog 1300 L - 2 starting.
VW 181 Kuebel - 3 starting.
Wiesel 1 TOW - 4 starting.

[british exil]

I did a real bad setup. Let the Pact come into the open ground, I thought I could pick them off, they smashed me completly. Was giving out orders to blow the Weser bridges even though I had a few forces stuck on the other bank.

Was glad when game ended, did not really look at results, as I didn't have a fighting force left.

I also noticed my rocket Art just as the game was nearly finished. Teaches me to pay better attention next time.

Mat

I will return to fight another day.

[Showtime 100_MatrixForum]

There's no way I could have managed without the air support and MLRS. ICMs from the MLRS will demolish anything in the hex it hits; using it to blunt the Soviet push south into town was the only way that I wasn't completely overrun when the Soviets dropped to 30% strength and triggered sudden death.