Servus,
greetings after my 12h dayshift.
I`m amused and become a little bit angry.
You red the briefing and our last mails?
I tried to explain it step by step, I failed.
Zitat
My russian friend and me, we are not from RA, we are from steelbeasts.ru (steelbeasts.pro).
sorry for this, I will change this in the final version.
Zitat
So we can not understand why this mission have 1985 date, and the red on the offensive? Why all the current funny missions contain the offensive of the red?
It`s 1985 because I like this year and we have all vehicles for this time period (ok no Marder1A2 but Marder1A3).
I can promise you, if red and blue play there cards right, it will be not a funny mission like "Midweek Madness".
We have the vehicles, we have the weappons and ammunition. I tried to make the organization with the callsign template like in real life during this time period.
I want to play red as offensive part, because in my opinion it was there doctrine.
Zitat
We had a defensive military doctrine.
lol
Zitat
And I can not understand why DKs have equipment with thermal imagers in 1985?
As I tried to explain you in the last EMails, we don`t use DK equipment, but we use the mod folder \DK.
It`s simple, in this time period our rifle was the HK G3 and not the G36. In steelbeasts the DK mod folder use this rifle.
If we play this mission I will send you all german skins for this mission, you can put these in the dk mod folder and every blue soldier or callsign will have german camo.
Thats why the blue equipment has thermal imager, we had this in 1985.
Zitat
The main problem of the mission, it's difficult weather conditions and very limited visibility. In such circumstances, we can not go on the offensive and prefer to wait for the right weather conditions, even against your company we would have an entire division. We do not need the losses.
Besides. We do not understand what is the "capture of an object", we understand the "reaching of the frontier", and why we need to capture the Kalinka in this terrain, if above it rises the height of the most dominant to the west?
From a tactical point of view, we would have preferred to attack in the souther direction, or in the worst case, in the norther direction of this area. In general, we would prefer to choose offensive conditions ourselves, because it is our offensive. But much work has been done, and we offer a compromise.
It is necessary to exclude from the height of the game, marked in purple or revise the target of the attack.
The weather in germany can be bad and difficult, I can make sunshine and visibility 3000m, no problem good for our Leopards. I don`t wanted to write a novel in the situation reports.
The situation is like I described in the mission. Red found a gap in our defense and sent this MechInf Btn to take this key terrain and to develop the situation.
If you use google maps, you can see our Brigade is defending between Detmold and Paderborn. So if you can take your OBJ you have 2 options for future operations (we will not play these options).
1st you can go west or you can attack the deep left flank of our Btn or Brigade.
To the south is the main effort of your division and our brigade because there are the main roads. I was not scripting this and I will not make a script.
Back to the situation.
The blue Btn Cdr saw this gap and sent one PzGrenCoy to defend the area. Thats why it`s a hasty defense for blue.
It is not your offensive. You play a MechInfBN and you follow orders from your RGT CDR or DIV CDR. In good old red army doctrine a MechInf CDR has not the option, he follows orders, strictly.
If you like you can download the regulations in our download section.
In this mission we have a classic 3:1 ratio. And in my opinion this is a good ratio for you in this mission, because blue has no obstacles, mines, prepared arty missions, prepared battle positions, recon in front etc...
You can use the missiles from your BMPs, our Marder can`t do this (in real life yes, but not in sb), we have to dismount squads. The only thing we have is the terrain. We have to find out your main effort and have to defend very flexible.
We can speak about the time limit, but we need this in my eyes.
My intention of this mission: I want to see a powerfull red attack and a flexible blue defense.
If red use single tank tactics, I think they will fail, If blue is defending to inflexible, I think they will fail. For both sides it`s a challenge. But this is just my opinion.
What we can do, we can play it and after this we change sides and see what happens.
cheers
Duke