Battle of Alsfeld 1985

[General SP]

The Soviet battle plan was going to be a 3 part attack.

A major attack through the south with minor thrusts to the center and north. An para drop would happen around turn 8 and this would be supported with air units. Of course in thought it sounded good :)

Forces:

Main attack:

2 companies T-80's
2 companies T-72BI's
2 companies BTR Infantry
9 platoons naval infantry
3 Naval scout platoons (1 MB-LT x 3 scouts per platoon)
2 para obs
4 marksman
2 platoons BDRM scout
6 Hinds
5 Gecko Sams
12 ZU-23AA
8 MT-LB82 SP mortars
12 BM-22 Urugan rocket launcher
6 RPU-14 Rocket launchers
6 Akatsaya SPA
12 BTR-50 ammo units

Para Forces:

20 AN-2P transports with 20 para platoons
14 AN-32 with 14 para platoons
13 AN-32 used as SAM suckers
12 ZSU-23AA

Air units:

4 Graphs
4 Foxbats


The Air drop was a disaster. The decoys did a nice job of sucking up some of the sams, but the drops themselves were so scattered that they could not produce any real threat to Wulfirs units. As Wulfir stated, the only thing that worked was running into his HQ unit and showing them home the hard way :) The supporting air attacks were timed badly and most were blotted before they could do damage.

Main forces did rather well in the south and the northern forces were decimated slowly. Northern and center groups were reduced to 6 working tanks and 2 platoons of infantry. Eventually they were in hold positions to thwart any counter attack from Wulfir. Southern mode did rather well but again ran out of steam at the end. Main losses came from Cluster Munitions and evil AT units hiding in the bushes.

My Bm-22's and Akatsayas were on a fire 2 turn and then scoot routine. Lost only BM-22 and the rest survived. Not sure how much effect they actually had as in a game this big I hardly watched the replays. Thankfully my Geckos kept his Apaches grounded as they took a toll in the initial attack. And the Bradleys were complete terrors with those kill-anything Tows.Scouts did a terrible job of finding anything so need to practice with them a bit more.

Overall an awesome game and was sad to not see the whole end. We decided to call it a medium victory for Wulfir as I had no forces able to mass any more attacks.