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Mark Hemns -> (9/11/2003 4:37:18 PM)
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[B]13:30-14:00 [/B]
I have been issuing too many orders again and experience a close shave as the HQ BTR-80 Gremlin is destroyed by incoming artillery. If the Regimental HQ had been destroyed, order times would have been significantly disrupted whilst command was passed to another unit.
[B]14:00-15:00 [/B]
My left hook is now well in the American rear. 3rd Battalion destroys an American Engineering company and the remnants of a M-109 Howitzer battery (my previous Counter Battery fire had some effect after all).
[B]15:00-17:00 [/B]
2 hours of consolidation take place whilst I manoeuvre units into position to re-start the attack.
Units that need it are given Rest And Refit orders which allow them to recover morale and fatigue.
3rd Battalion has reached Quadrant 1 and sets up in defensive positions.
At 16:00 the weather improved enough that a A-10 strike was launched against one of my artillery positions destroying 3 2S1 Howitzers and a command vehicle. Up until then the 2000m visibility had thankfully restricted flying.
[B]17:00-17:30 [/B]
I no longer know where C & D Coy's/2-67th Arm Bn are so I advance one damaged T-80 company (2 tanks) towards their last known position. The unit completes it's mission and I will have to remember to award a posthumous medal for it's commander.
[B]17:30-18:30 [/B]
All artillery units drop fire on the target in a one hour preparatory bombardment. They run out of ammo at the end of the turn.
There is no real logistics in the game. If a unit runs out of ammo it receives a small emergency re-supply if it is within range of it's HQ.
[B]19:00 [/B]
The game ends before I can get my remaining units into the attack. Most were suffering from severe fatigue which was increasing the time it took them to react to orders.
I also forgot when the game was due to finish!
The screenshot shows the final positions of all the surviving forces (note the darker look to the map that denotes that the sun has set).
US forces were reduced to A Company (14 M1A1) and D Company (5 M1A1).
C company must have been destroyed by my artillery fire along with a large portion of D.
Curiously NATO also had a flight of 4 Cobra helicopters which never got into the fight (helicopters are only partially coded at the moment which may explain this).
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