As mentioned in the last post I have created a campaign map which should cover the first 24 hours of a Warsaw Pact attack, give or take a couple of hours. Apologies for the slightly washed out reproduction I need to play around with the scanner settings to get a bit more colour saturation.
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| The campaign map for the initial fighting |
Soviet Forces will enter at the right hand side and try to exit from the left. I will be covering this frontage with BAOR forces. Recon units will cover the area in the first two rows of rectangles (each one of which is a game table measuring 6' by 4'). Heavier formations will be to the west. I will probably deploy a brigade sized battlegroup to cover the area consisting of a Chieftain regiment, one or possibly two mechanised infantry battalions plus a couple of Milan platoons, A Striker detachment (mounting Swingfire ATGM) and a Blowpipe AAGM detachment. Artillery will be offboard. Soviets will have (initially) three Motorised Rifle Regiments backed up with a T-62 Regiment. Stacked up behind that will be a T-64 Tank Regiment. Which means that I need to get on with the painting and basing! 15 T-64As are painted and will be based by later today.
Based upon my initial test game it took the Soviets 36 game minutes to achieve their initial objectives on a 6' x 4' table and they would perhaps probably needed another 24 minutes (two turns) to get forces off the table excluding time for the second echelon to come up. I intend throwing WarPac lines of assault open to input both through this blog and elsewhere on Face Book and through real life (TM pending) contacts. So it is probably worth mentioning that WarPac forces may enter the map on any of the roads marked with a red arrow and the rules require battalions to be kept together. Other than that express your opinions on the best WarPac operational plan for day one in the comments. I will throw the actual table tactics open in due course.
Like the map. What’s happening with air support and will their be any chemical weapons used?
ReplyDeleteUnlikely to use chemical weapons or receive any air support on the first table (AKA as my rules haven't arrived yet and the free set of FFT2 don't include the rules for this). Later there will be Jaguar and Harrier close support for the BAOR and Su-25 and Hind for the Russians. They will also have a first use of chemical weapons available but only on Army level agreement (expected if an attack bogs down against significant resistance) while BAOR can only use them following Russian use.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that all makes sense. You doing this solo?
DeleteSemi Solo is the best way to describe it. I will ask through the blog and other avenues for tactical plans and will go with the most popular option if there is any difference of opinion. I will probably play the table top action solo. Always assuming that people are interested enough to provide input.
ReplyDeleteThe rules arrived at lunch time. The NBC rules are sobering to say the least. I think I may do without for the first game. Once they come into use the petrol can and matches suddenly seem a lot closer!
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