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PhillipH -> Special Units in Longest Day (9/29/2009 10:06:06 PM)
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Hi,
I like playing the Longest Day - Airborne Variant agains the German PO and I have a question about the proper employment of the British division level specialist units. Specifically the Anti Tank and Machine Gun batallions. I recognise from history books that they tended to be broken up and deployed intermingled with infantry batallions to form a loose kind of battlegroup (although I don't think the unit actually operated as battlegroups in the German or modern sense - they were just occupying the same ground). Is this how they should be employed in TOAW ? In which case is it OK to split down these units and divide them over the front line infantry batallions, accepting the lower unit capabilities that splitting penalises with ?
Is there another, better, way of using these specialised units ?
Secondly, once my airborne have landed and either held their ground or been ground to dust, what should I do with them ? They are very slow moving and don't have a great deal of offensive capability and once (if ?) the seaborne units catch up with the airborne bridgehead, I'm at a loss with what is the best task to employ them with. Can/should I ship them back to the UK for a second drop ?
Lastly an observation on this scenario, (I got from Rugged Defence) - it might be a quirk of the PO but I've found rather than dropping en-masse, I get better results from outflanking tactical drops of individual airborne brigades just behind the German battle line. En-masse they are vulnerable for many turns, but dropped tactically they can outflank and force some nasty behaviour from Elmer, cutting supply etc. Is this just "gamey" or is it a valid tactic ? In reality was the strategic dropping of airborne a good use of their capability or the last gasp of an invalid vertical envelopment concept (and possibly alert the defenders to the upcoming attacks into the bargin ?)
PhillipH
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