D.O.W. Saturday Mission 04-07-15 DOW Fulda Attack Phase I

[Cougar11]

D.O.W. Saturday Mission 04/07/15 @ GMT20:00


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DOW Fulda Attack Phase II by Cougar11
 

This scenario is a simulation and does not have any political message.



Mission Summary :
Phase 1 of two missions where US forces 2ACR first scout to destroy enemy recon, identify obstacles and enemy positions. Phase 2 is the attack of a US battalion size unit 1AD, based on your recon information.




Map






Excerpts of the battalion commander's (HAVOC 6) orders for...BLUEFOR (D.O.W.)

1) SITUATION:

a) Enemy:
   132nd Motorized Rifle Regiment Minus is conducting counter recon and defensive operations in sector. Enemy equipment is well supplied, and consists of modern Russian mechanized armor vehicles. They have no air assets, heavy anti-air, and heavy artillery support.


b) Own:
                Alpha Troop 2ACR with 2 M3A2 Bradley, 2 M1A2EP, and support units are set south of the enemy lines, and are prepared to move north.


c) Attachments and detachments:

                   1 platoon (4) of Eagle IV with lemur sites from Danish forces, 2 sections of engineers (1 M113 with MICLIC, 1 Bradley ODS no MICLIC), medics, repair, ARV, FISTV, and mortars. Air support will be available for recon (1 Tiger representing KIOWA) (-400pts).


2) MISSION:

Alpha 2ACR is to conduct counter recon to destroy enemy forces between friendly positions and the enemy main battle positions. Alpha will recon area to determine avenues of approach, obstacles, and emplace observation positions for follow on forces of the attack.


3) EXECUTION:  



Intent: Alpha 2ACR will NTL 0640 advance to defeat enemy recon and observation positions, recon avenues of approach, obstacles, enemy main positions, emplace observation positions, and other information as needed for the main attack.
 


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** Notes **
SB Version: 3.025 32bit/64bit
Mission Name: DOW Fulda Attack Phase I
Created by: Cougar11
Modified by: N/A
Multi-Crew: Yes
Single Crew: Yes
Largest command: 1+ Companies
Smallest command:Crew Position
Mission Duration: 80-120 minutes depending on players and progress.
Minimum number players: 3
Date: Saturday Mission 04/07/15
Time: 20:00 GMT
Time (local): http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150704T20&p0=%3A&msg=DOW+Saturday+Steel+Beasts+Meeting&font=sanserif&csz=1
Teamspeak  IP: 216.22.24.158 , Port 9987
Room: Dogs of War

Player Skill/Ability:
•   Completion of at least 1 full tutorial of Leo2A5 or M1A2Sep, preferred also M2A2 and or CV-90.
•   Working knowledge of Comms procedure.

Dogs Of War Vehicles : (in mission)

M1A2:
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=M1A2_(SEP)

M3A2ODS
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=M3A2

Eagle IV
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=Eagle_IV

M113 G3 ENG
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=M113A3_Eng

FISTV
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=M981_FISTV

M2A2ENG
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=M2A2

M88 MRV
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=M88A1_MRV



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Our goal is to have the DOW Saturday session more immersive and realistic.

[RedWardancer]

I don't work this Saturday thanks to Independence Day.

I'll take a M3 platoon/section. 

[Cougar11]

Red. I thought you might. It has tow missiles. Lol

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[Lumituisku]

Im interested of manning M981 FISTV and / or Eagle IVs ^^   

I recently did some training for Artillery and now know how to quickly call artillery if emergency.  :3  even in 40 seconds from call if necessary.


And I'm familiar with Lemur RWS. as well so it would be interesting to make good use of those in recon kind of missions.

[Cougar11]

Not sure how the m981 will be employed, but the eagles could be put to good use.

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[Lumituisku]

Then why it is on the mission? It is vehicle to call artillery.. right? - oh well so easy to call artillery from map. : /   why to use any of those observes anyways.

[Cougar11]

They are in there to make it more realistic, as a unit like this would have one. How it gets used would be determined by the CO. Would be better used in the defense.

[Asid]

Great mission

Thank you Cougar

[Cougar11]

Here is a few shots from our scouts, and some tank support from the mission.

[Lumituisku]

The more I scout, the more interested of it I get.

Its in the heart of action.

It feels very important, even when actual firefights hardly exist.

But in turn there is that constant thrill of finding enemy from behind corner, just before that mad escape and desperate survival attempt.

It is something where it literally feels that small can play big role.

- - -

It seems that to be good scout...  one has to be very aggressive. To move well ahead of friendly forces but not too far.

I guess it is like a line drawn into water.

If not being aggressive own forces gain hardly any benefit, and force movement can become very slow.

Since... scouting in the heart is slow and very cautious.

Even on this mission. Own tanks sometimes run ahead of scouts. Hence i find it necessity to be aggressive and to push well ahead of friendly force.

Thought... not too far. Something from 1km - 5km kilometers would probably work best. Depending of terrain and enemy.

- - -

I find a lot possibilities from scouting. If situation allows it, scouts could have lot of creativity and flexibility to move well a head of friendly forces, to find enemy positions and movement even better than they did on this mission.

Also... I have been thinking that we would need some kind of simple markings that would be easy to understand and easy to create to map. Those simple arrows that Rhyfel and Apocalypse use seem to be using a lot would be really nice, Basically a continuous line with hook end. it is really easy to draw to map. Perhaps thickness of line could describe size of enemy force? and type of line for quality. Normal for heavy armor. - Dotted for infantry or non dangerous units?

perhaps text to describe this could be going for two letter and two numbers. Where first letter would be...  either number of spotted tanks..  or estimated.. such as platoon, section, company? and second letter for type.  T = tanks, P = Pc:s, I=infantry,  O=others  and last two numbers would be mission time first for hour and second for tens of minutes. for example
PP14 = Platoon, PCs, 1 hour 40 minutes 
1T03 = 1 tank 0 hours 30 minutes
SI00 = Squad Infantry 0 hours less than 5 minutes of start

Something like this could help marking a lot?

Red color of course for enemy.. and green for minefield... but hmm...  I feel something is missing and I feel that this is far from perfect.





Also.. as much as i like scout vehicles and I like Eagles... those eagles were not  ideal to this kind of terrain. They were bouncing up and down constantly, so much that even when they had stabilized sights, those just could not keep up, and were shaking, not terribly but enough to make screen blurry most of the time. Perhaps, a tracked vehicle could have done better in this terrain.