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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
By: JC
Flashpoint Latvia Episode 7 - Steel Beasts ProPE - Hit and Run
This narrative is fictional. No political point is intended.
D-day. The Russian mechanized brigades have crossed the border at Morozovka and Terehova. The Russian spearheads inexplicably paused for one hour just a few kilometers after the crossing. There was no real opposition from the Latvian National Armed Forces, just a few incidents with civilians throwing harmless household projectiles at the Russians. The Russian soldiers endured this with remarkable stoicism. It was clear this was not the Russian Army of yesteryear. Professionals, very conscious of their relationship with civilians.
Sensing the lack of resistance and aware that not a second was to be spared, some Russian detachments started to detangle from the main advance guard. The Russian detachment in this blog post (3 BMP-3s) was racing through a secondary road in the vicinity of Nirza when it met a Latvian recon platoon of (FV 107) Scimitars.
The Latvian light armored vehicles were on alert about Russian armor near their position, but the distinctive sound of the BMP-3 engines caught them by surprise. With their backs to a deep...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
By: JC
Looking for a Scourge of War Waterloo Multiplayer Session? Find it at the Dogs of War Virtual Unit
Dogs of War is a very cool bunch of sim/wargames guys who play in both a very immersive and a casual style. Their diet includes Arma 3 and Steel Beasts ProPE.
Now, according to this forum thread, they will start multiplayer sessions of Scourge of War. The first one (Waterloo) is today at 1300 GMT. More details in the original forum thread.
Make sure to drop by today or sometime in the future.
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Sunday, November 6, 2016
By: JC
DCS World 1.5 Mig-21bis - Flares That Lit the Fires Inside
June, 1980 something. Col. Evgeny Nudler has been deployed to the Vaziani Airbase (near Tiblisi) as a first responder to a political crisis that is spinning out of control. After a successful strike on separatist vehicles bivouacking at the Dinamo Arena, the commander of the Soviet forces placed a priority on the agitators that were about to move into Tiblisi proper for a massive demonstration downtown. It was an unusually hot, dark-pitch night and no less than 34 buses were observed in the April Garden park (a few hundred meters west of the Mtkvari river) along with thousands of demonstrators camping under the trees. HUMINT, always easy to get from civilians, indicated that the demonstrators were to transported by bus via the Saarbruecken bridge early the next day.
Time of take off: 2300. Flight: 1 Mig-21 piloted by Col. Nudler. Mission: destroy the Saarbruecken bridge in order to disrupt demonstrations in Tiblisi. Loadout: S24B rockets.
Support: 1 Mi-8 helicopter armed with S-80M illumination rockets.
Below, the lights of Tiblisi helped Col. Nudler to keep a relatively low altitude without colliding...
Monday, November 7, 2016
Scourge of War Waterloo - Ligny DLC - A Virtual Tour of the Sombreffe Position
This blog post contains images from the recently released Ligny DLC for Scourge of War Waterloo and excerpts from the controversial book 1815 The Waterloo Campaign by (the no less controversial) Peter Hofschroer. Book quotes are in italics.
"The terrain around Sombreffe gave a number of advantages to the defence. The undulating countryside contained considerable areas of dea ground in which troops could be hidden"
"The tall crops, at the time often the height of a man or more, added to the possibilities for concealment."
"The village of Ligny spread over a extent of around 1 km, with its longest axis running from south-west to north-east"
"From Ligny to Mont Potriaux, the [Ligne] brook ran through a marshy meadow which could only be crossed by troops with the greatest difficulty".
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