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Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! With a ... - 4/8/2019 5:17:22 PM   
Daniele

 

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Status: offline 		The Cold War is cold no more. NATO countries are facing their Warsaw Pact counterparts right in the middle of Europe, furiously fighting to control the Fulda-Gap and close key-locations.

But Germany is not the only European Front where the Soviet High Command is looking to overcome the West resistance.

On the south, a century-old hot border is ready to erupt into fire. Yugoslavia, although not a “Soviet” state, is willing to take advantage of the chaos in which the totality of Western Nations has been embroiled. Their eyes run along the Italian border and the important port of Trieste, the acquisition of which could be of immense value for its economy. The JNA (Yugoslav People's Army) is equipped with hardware of high efficiency and it is not afraid to use it on its old enemy.

Italy, even if marked by endemic inner political weaknesses, is not blind to the Yugoslavian claims and maneuvers. Its Army is not the inefficient and burdened system that collapsed in WWII. Being a member of NATO and of the EEC has brought enormous economic advantages and its Army has benefitted from decades of renovation and training in Europe and in military operations abroad.

Will the plains of Italy be the next battleground in the war that could end everything?

Veitikka Studios, developers of the praised wargame Armored Brigade, is proud to announce their first DLC, bringing Italy and Yugoslavia into the war!

The DLC comes with two new factions, 250 new units, and a colossal and ultra-detailed new map, the Gorizia Border!

Check the Product Page here for more details!

But news is not over. Since its release in November, Armored Brigade gathered enormous attention from the players’ community due to its flexibility, wide range of units and factions combined with a seldom-seen realism. However, its heavily skirmish oriented mode had put many people on the fence, wondering if any new game mode would be added in the future. The day has come, as together with the Nation Pack DLC developers will release an update featuring, among many other goodies, a Campaign Generator tool! And it will come for free!

We will release more information on the update (and the DLC, of course) further along the road, but for the moment suffice to say that it will allow to carry over your units from battle to battle following different geographic locations depending on your victory outcomes!

Stay tuned for further updates!

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/8/2019 5:57:19 PM   
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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/8/2019 7:58:52 PM   
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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/9/2019 12:39:57 PM   
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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/9/2019 4:51:02 PM   
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Looking forward to the release...

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/9/2019 5:15:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had the same ideas (maybe because I'm italian)...time ago I started a research for this theater, but I never thought developers could develop this NATO sector, also because this sector, LANDSOUTH, was peripheral flank.

After many research, I found out that, in case the cold war had become hot the invasion of Italy would have been carried out by Hungarians and Soviets (in small numbers) via two routes; one of this its via "Lubjana corridor" and after via "Gorizia Gap" (Soglia di Gorizia), but the real intentions of Tito's Yugoslavia were unknown, secretly in case of war Yugoslavia would have passed with NATO in any case the Warsaw Pact forces that were supposed to invade Italy would have found a first resistance in Slovenia by the JNA. The other one was via Austria (violating its neutrality) and Tarvisio pass trought the Alps, very uncomfortable for mechanized and armored units.

Thanks in advance for this DLC, fantastic!!!!

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/9/2019 6:59:02 PM   
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Now i hope for a pack with Czech, Austrian and Swiss forces

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/9/2019 7:26:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Although there was a formal reconciliation with USSR in 1955 under Khrushchev (following Tito-Stalin split in 1948), Yugoslav policymakers would spend the rest of the Cold War fearing a Soviet attack because of their ideological heresy. On the other hand, despite periods of relatively cordial relations, for the majority of the Cold War Yugoslavia viewed NATO with caution and hostility, with Tito could often be heard denouncing the imperialism of the United States and its allies, and particularly the possibility of Italy using global conflict to reclaim Istria and Dalmatia was contemplated in war plans. Yugoslav military doctrine assumed an omnidirectional threat, but its strategy and tactics presupposed a heavily armored and mechanized Soviet or Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion, entering from the northeast and driving southwest to split the country. Major exercises were held every few years to test the doctrine in action.

Special attention went to coordinating combat actions between Yugoslav People's Army and Territorial Defence Forces. While conventional forces fought defensive actions along a nationwide front (read: air-force, most of armored and mechanized units would be sacrificed in delaying actions and counterattacks buying time for the mobilization plan to be implemented), one to three million citizen-soldiers would be activated in TDF units.

Only "inner-bastion" (Bosnia, parts of western and south-western Serbia, Montenegro, southern part of Croatia and Slovenia) were expected to be actively defended. In case of "Czechoslovakian scenario", or Warsaw Pact invasion without war with NATO, it was expected that Novi Sad would fall in a 3-5 days, Zagreb in a 5-7 days, Belgrade (actively defended) in 2 weeks. "Inner bastion" was estimated to be able to resist for maybe a month without suffering critical breakthrough. After that, either NATO intervened to assist Yugoslavia (NATO did have contingency plans for such option), or war ended (although capitulation was forbidden by Constitution) or resistance would transform into a partisan warfare. In case of major Warsaw Pact conflict with NATO war expectations were somewhat higher, about 2-3 times longer active resistance duration was expected.

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/10/2019 12:24:10 PM   
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with Tito could often be heard denouncing the imperialism of the United States and its allies, and particularly the possibility of Italy using global conflict to reclaim Istria and Dalmatia was contemplated in war plans.


Italy, didn't have any offensive war plan to conquer Istria and Dalmatia, consider that for Italy the war is forbidden by Constitution as offensive tool. Italian Army thought, accordly with JNA, to occupy defence positions beyond the borders in Slovenia in case of war.


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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/10/2019 11:05:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, all nations prepare for worst case scenarios, including attacks by closest allies.

Italy took the possibility of Yugoslav attack quote seriously (with Soviets, mostly), albeit if I remember correctly only quite late (maybe even as late as 1980s) those plans envisioned a possibility of Italian Army counterattacking beyond established borders (east of Gorizia or Trieste).

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/12/2019 7:23:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Kinda disappointing, Was looking forward to the French since they have their own equipment and doctrine whereas the Italian mostly use a mix of equipment from Germany and the U.S.

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/13/2019 12:39:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		France of is highest priority, but it will require few months of work, being a pretty large and unique faction.

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/13/2019 12:42:54 PM   
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ORIGINAL: nikolas93TS

with Tito could often be heard denouncing the imperialism of the United States and its allies, and particularly the possibility of Italy using global conflict to reclaim Istria and Dalmatia was contemplated in war plans.


Italy, didn't have any offensive war plan to conquer Istria and Dalmatia, consider that for Italy the war is forbidden by Constitution as offensive tool. Italian Army thought, accordly with JNA, to occupy defence positions beyond the borders in Slovenia in case of war.



Found the relevant bit: a possibility of counterattack and reoccupation of Istria was added to war plans in 1970, in case of "skirmish" with Yugoslavia, without NATO or Warsaw pact intervention. Second option was just repulsing the Yugoslavs and re-establishing status quo with post-1945 border.

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/13/2019 2:20:22 PM   
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ORIGINAL: nikolas93TS

Found the relevant bit: a possibility of counterattack and reoccupation of Istria was added to war plans in 1970, in case of "skirmish" with Yugoslavia, without NATO or Warsaw pact intervention. Second option was just repulsing the Yugoslavs and re-establishing status quo with post-1945 border.



I find this particular very interesting and at same time a little bit strange. Have you some sources related at this "scenario/option"?
I don't understand if you are talking about a Yugoslavian war plan or Italian.

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RE: Armored Brigade first Nation Pack is announced! Wit... - 4/14/2019 11:19:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		In this particular case I was referring to Italian plan. My source is the national planning study (pianificazione nazionale) elaborated by Army General Staff (Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito), on mandate of Defence Staff (Stato Maggiore della Difesa) in 1970. The document imply that the possibility of border skirmish with Yugoslavia was always held in high priority by Italian Army (which is not surprising given the Trieste Crisis in 1953 and that this issue was finally settled only with the Treaty of Osimo in 1975). The planning study I mentioned specifically included the option of using the border dispute to counterattack and re-occupy Istria peninsula if political and military means would allow.

As for Yugoslavia, USSR and satellite forces from Hungary and Bulgaria (and Romania until 1968) were considered the most likely opponent since Tito-Stalin split in 1948 and until the dissolution of Yugoslavia. With Greece there was a mutual defense treaty that neither side would allow transit of the enemy troops over own territory.
Italy was considered possible opponent in the 1940s and 1950s (obviously due to Trieste Crisis), but after that it's threat level was gradually diminished, principal option being that it might try to use the cover of wider global war to occupy parts of Istria. It is clear that both Italy and Yugoslavia expected the other to strike first in order to commence hostilities.

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