[General Battuta]

as this is much too many armored vehicles for the Taliban.

Balance Issues?

See, some people can work balance and reality into the same scenario, some can't.

Respectfully, it sounds like his instructor is...pretty well versed in this stuff.

Frighteningly so.

[Polpolion]

--Day 5--

We started off today with the combat bound that was interrupted yesterday. Yesterday, the enemy had 3 strykers right smack dab in front of a cave opening, so we popped out and shot them all. We blew up all 3 strykers and gunned down a bunch of the infantry that hobbled out of the wrecks. Their survivors are retreating towards their remaining strykers in the open, so we just retreated back into the caves, intending to regroup with our remaining light armor and possibly counterattack.

Other than that, they called in 2 A-10s, even though all of our heavy armor already did all the damage it needed to do. But we have ZPUs and anti-air guns all over the map, so hopefully they'll stray into range of one of them.

Well, I doubt that they'll be stupid enough to randomly stray into any of our traps, but you never know.


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As for the balancing, I can't really see any other way to do it. If you just give us a ****load of infantry, that will be even more difficult, because our infantry is even more handicapped, and plus, it would be way too hard to manage it all. We can't split the class up 50-50 because then the US forces wouldn't have a full company, and the Taliban don't really have that kind of force hierarchy. How would you try and balance it, NGTM-1R?

[NGTM-1R]

More infantry is the answer, but probably specialized; ATGM teams most likely, still with a couple of tanks (T-55s or T-62s); BTRs instead of BMPs (which were apparently extranous anyways); extensive mining of the terrain. Protecting light armor like Strykers from infantry isn't easy and one of the first mistakes your opponents made was not to dismount their infantry and use it as a screen for the Strykers (who in turn probably should have screened the MGS Strykers).

It would get rather unwieldy with that many infantry on the board, perhaps, although not totally unmanageable if you replaced each tank with a pair of ATGM teams or three or four RPG teams with reloads. But yes, more or less this would kill you on your time constraints.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, it's pretty dumb to move armor through broken terrain without an infantry screen.

[Dilmah G]

Out of curiosity

Did your course teach Armour/Infantry/Aircraft tactics? Or would that be ripping off West Point too much hehe

[Polpolion]

No, he did not teach any tactics. He did, however give us all a CD with all of the semester's material on it, and there is a neat little power point presentation hidden in there about it, but he didn't present it in class at all.

I'm going to see if I can take some pictures of the board either tomorrow or the day after.

[Polpolion]

--Day 6--

First of all, I did take pictures, but I have to wait until I get home to upload them.

After that ambush when the enemy ground infantry that survived retreated, our guys advanced and tried to take off the .50 cals. Unfortunately, the enemy took them when they retreated yesterday, so all we got was the M240 machine guns on them. Still good though; we killed a few of them and wounded them while they were retreating. Other than that, we started regrouping for another assault. The suicide donkeys, TBH, weren't really meant to do anything more than distract the enemy. Every single enemy stryker, which can move six times as fast as the donkeys, were engaging the donkeys, as were the A-10s. Needless to say, the donkeys are all dead now, but we were able to regroup all of our infantry into two complete, heavily armed groups, complete with BMP and truck support.

We've also gotten two groups of civillians to steal .50 cals off of two destroyed tank and hide in a valley. The enemy CO is moving up through that valley in his stryker. Time providing, we'll be able to gun him down (It should work, because we were able to take down a stryker at one ambush with MMG fire).

Now here's the thing: Tomorrow will be like -37 degrees celcius with wind chill, and since our campus has 4 buildings and a third of the school's population walks outside every hour for about a third of a mile, we might just get school off. If that happens, the final ends. I think that it would end in our favor, seeing as how we're ready to mount a counter offensive and the enemy is retarded. They have to withdraw when they reach 15% casualties, and a lot of their guys are dismounted now because we've destroyed over half their strykers.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, if anything like this ever happened in real-Afghanistan, it'd be a debacle for the US. Never mind that it's only a tactical defeat, those kind of things just aren't supposed to happen the US Army.

[Polpolion]

Yeah, if anything like this ever happened in real-Afghanistan, it'd be a debacle for the US. Never mind that it's only a tactical defeat, those kind of things just aren't supposed to happen the US Army.

But it wouldn't happen in real life because US Army officers aren't high school students that have no knowledge of the capabilities of their units or tactics, thank goodness.

But to be honest, I think if this game was a perfect simulation, yet still with the same overall plans and actions from each side, I would only be helped. For one, all of my units in every ambush would most likely get kills because A) they had over a minute to line up their shot while in hiding B) all shots were made from less than 200m. The enemy wouldn't be able to return fire a lot of times, too, because they wouldn't be able to specifically see where my guys our. For example, when our RPG troops fired from the crops, the Americans would know they were being fired at from the crops, but AFAIK not all of their strykers have thermals and they wouldn't be able to see through the crops like we are.

[StarSlayer]

Aw poor donkeys...

Still its pretty silly that they called in CAS and used armored vehicles to eliminate them.  If anything they just wasted millions of dollars of ordinance on targets that probably cost diddly squat.

[Bob-san]

I'd like to see pictures. I actually would love to play some games like this.

[Titan]

Doubt that this is on topic anymore, but that would be by dream class. My entire bookshelf is military history books.

[Polpolion]

Overall battle. Enemy MGS and stryker group is in red, stryker only group is in blue. Our lines of fire during ambushes are in yellow. Circled yellow is our suicide donkeys. That little group single handedly distracted the entire surviving American force today. Other than them, we did not take any casualties today.

[Titan]

I'm SOOOO glad you're american 

Or is it the other team?  No offense at your classmates

[Polpolion]

I'm SOOOO glad you're american 

Or is it the other team?  No offense at your classmates

I live in America. I am on the Taliban team. The American team got killed.

[Dilmah G]

WOah that looks cool