Campaign Series Middle East: Hot Knife Through Butter - AAR/PBEM

[Jason Petho]

Turn 10

Overview

Pretty well half way through and here is the overall situation. This is zoom out level number 7, so while you get an excellent overview of the situation, it isn't intended to give you specific detailed reporting.

You can see I am still holding the center area fairly well although I have little to know reinforcements to help beef up any action that happens in the south.

With the exception of a couple of flights of TOW armed Cobra's that arrived this turn. They are in the southwest.



Southwest

The southern screen was provided by a couple of Jeep's armed with TOW's. They were keeping an eye on my southwest flank.

Here are the two flights of Cobra's. Quite frankly, these arrived just in time as I have noticed a flank attack in this sector by T-62's. The Cobra's used their TOW's and eliminated a couple of platoons of them. They will fly around this area in hopes of defeating any further attacks.



Dahr El Ahmar

My infantry has stalled the advance west of HILL 1036, and with the M150's and Magach 6's taking their toll on the T-72's, they are forced to halt their advance and seek defensive terrain.

An intense infantry fight has broken out to the southwest of Dahr El Ahmar and I see some more Gazelle's in the neighbourhood. With them flying around it, it is essential I keep my armoured vehicles out of Line of Sight. (You can see the Gazelle a few hexes southeast of Dah El Ahmar north of the woods).





Kfar Mechki

This area is getting a bit more tense as I know have to worry about the southwest flank. The Syrians are advancing towards Kfar Mechki and my infantry is paying in blood. I am pulling back the infantry company southwest of HILL 1187 to rejoin the fight at Kfar Mechki, but it will be a delaying action.






Losses

Here is the present loss situation.

I have lost 23 Magach 6's in the battle so far.

On the bright side, I have taken out 27 T-72's and 17 T-62's.

The 52 strength points of Rifle Platoon is painful though (about 26 squads or roughly 250 men).