Tournament B - Into the Breach - 6/16/82 - DAR

[Crossroads]

Turn #17

Northern Edge

Although I had the Cobra flight monitoring the area, and they've given the All Clear report, a Syrian tank platoon comes out of woods and assaults my TOW team. I take a disruption, but the retreating Syrian tanks stayed within their LOS and the other TOW team quickly took revenge. Missile teams are deadly!

Rawia Vital Ground

The mop up continues. There's still heavy Syrian shelling on my supply road, so I really need to secure the area from all spotters.

Northern Sector

Syrians send a couple of infantry units probing forward, while I move my tanks out of LOS of their TOW teams. Stalemate it is.

Southern Sector

My Arm'd Infantry Coy is giving me a hard time. Let us at'em! My recon team has a good visual towards South, so I've plotted some artillery on the Objectives area. I don't have a full visual to the area as a whole though, I don't have the information on Syrians there, so I will still wait for some more reinforcements to come before moving forward.



Over to Warhorse!

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ORIGINAL: Crossroads
Over to Warhorse!

And that's it, for this DAR too. We've discussed with Warhorse this scenario depends on Syrians making fast progress on the map, so having played this blind we'll start over, switch sides, and see how it will play with both of us now familiar with the map and the opposing forces.

I hope you enjoyed reading this During Action Report, we certainly enjoyed playing it!

[:)]

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So vonkrieg, hold your horses please, let us see a mirrored game next before too many changes [:)]

[vonkrieg]

Not making any changes until I get the feedback from you two. I have some ideas, but I do want to hear from the field commander's on this.

Standing by,

Jim

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ORIGINAL: vonkrieg

Not making any changes until I get the feedback from you two. I have some ideas, but I do want to hear from the field commander's on this.

Standing by,

Jim

We switched sides a while ago. So far, Mike's murdering me! [:D]

I decided to swing everything and their kitchen sink via the northern route, had my commandoes attacking the lone Israeli pillbox position there. 13 burning T-72 wrecks mark the battle there. I managed to down his other Cobra flight, first 1SP to ground AA fire, then the other SP to Mi-8 Escorts. There is hope...

His Merkava's are out there now too, I am airlifting Milan teams now as I have first carried a few MANPAD teams to secure the airspace.

To be continued...

[berto]

Ooh, lovin' those new 1 px wide armored symbols. [8D]

(Looks like they're not all quite finished, though.)

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Work-in-progress! Warhorse put 420 individual NATO icons in place remember [&o]

This is just an iteration on tank treads + ATG triangle + AA curve, so should not take long.

Will have this available as a mod so don't have to wait until 1.01 is out.

[berto]

ORIGINAL: Crossroads

Will have this available as a mod so don't have to wait until 1.01 is out.

+1

Will be made official, the default, not just a mod, in ME 1.01, yes?

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ORIGINAL: berto

Will be made official, the default, not just a mod, in ME 1.01, yes?

Yes Sir-ree.

Here's a more complete view with the new NATO icons. There's some experimental AIW inspired wreck markers too.

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Turn #11 at our mirrored game, I am now playing the Syrians with a whopping +3 pts to show for my efforts! That is just worth a Draw, so I am not complaining here...

15 burning T-72s traded for 6 burning Merkavas. I don't know if that's good or bad!

On show here are the latest CS:ME1.01 BETA exes, together with counter stats and display of six stacked counters max.

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Turn #12 of the Mirrored Game

Back to a negative point tally with -10 VPs, my tankers being sniped by those pesky Milan teams. Closing on then 100VP objective though. Meanwhile, the Israelis are at least partially abandoning their forward positions, so time to move some reinforcements towards those VP Objectives in order for them to maintain at least some presence there.

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Turn #13 of the Mirrored Game

My BMP-1s with their deadly Sagger load, hunting in the orchards, were able to catch the Merkava troop by surprise. The wreck markers display now 16 T-72s and 4 T-55s burning vs 9 Merkavas on the opposite side.

I am now to +74VP, with 150 worth of VPs available in this plateau, and 50VP in the south that will receive some attention next. Draw is at 0VP and Minor Victory at 250VP. Quite a nailbiter this scenario, from both sides!

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Turn #21 of the mirrored game

Quite an epic tank battle been brewing here for quite some time. That's 40 Syrian T-55s and T-72s burning vs 23 Israeli Merkavas. I am still at Minor Victory with some 290 VPs, but there's a couple of 50 VP Objectives that been swinging back and forth. Mike retook mine, while at the south I took his. Brutal.

On show here are the CS Middle East 1.01 release candidate 2D graphics. New counters with borders pushed a bit towards edges, with Israelis showing their brighter blue counters. There's the Black Unit Profile mod active here too.

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Turn #25 of the mirrored game

It's been a brutal battle for the 100VP plateau. Everytime I order an unfortunate recon to view the valley below me, my recon troops are blasted to smithereens. Everytime Israelis try to recon in force, my desperate troops, while still digging in for their lives, launch a halo of direct fire accompanied with ATGMs to throw them back.

I lost the 50VP Objective towards Isreali front line, but took the one in South. Victory points are somewhere north of 300 VPs. All's good, if I can only hang into this vital 100VP Objective here for five more turns!

Showing the view from my front lines. Oh, there's an equal amount of burning Syrian steel outside the pic too...


Oh, it is not deserted out there. Israeli infantry must be preparing for an assault, I just can't maintain a LOS there once I lost my only Mi-8 Gunship troop a good few turns ago. Come to think of it, it is one of the key assets for Syrians! Or was, rather [:(]

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Turn #29 - Mirrored game

Almost there! Hanging into Minor Win with my tooth and nails... The fight for the two 50VP Objectives has been absolutely brutal, they keep changing hands turn after turn. Not many moving tanks around either. ATGM platforms be what they may, shoulder to APC, are just deadly. Some burning oil there!

Here's for a change a full screen 2D Normal View (75) situation from the game:

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And so it ends. While VP tally would suggest this was a comfortable Minor Win for Syrians, it really wasn't. The two 50VP objectives changed hands quite a few times, the northern one especially saw some vicious fighting at close range in the orchards surrounding the Objective. Also, the 100VP Objective saw Israelis several times within one hex of it, but Syrians just managed to push them out each time.

To be included in CS: Middle East 1.01, and warmly recommended to be played by either side. Would work well for a simultaneous mirrored game too, being designed for Tournament use. Great design, vonkrieg, looking towards the sequel!

[carll11]

I am presently playing this scn. and cannot get my cobras to fire on tanks....medium height in range, message says cannot fire, they seem to have ammo...??

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ORIGINAL: carl11

I am presently playing this scn. and cannot get my cobras to fire on tanks....medium height in range, message says cannot fire, they seem to have ammo...??

Sorry to hear about that carl11,

Which version are you on? 1.01 had a bug on few scenarios where helo ammo levels were wrong. It has been fixed in the 1.02 beta, and with the upcoming 1.02 as well of course. Look at your helos, do they show an out-of-missiles icon? It is a hollow missile with a red X over it. If it does, that would indicate you're experiencing this problem.