Team Whiskey - WWIII Fulda Gap Campaign

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Jack you have to remember Phil is WELSH. they only understand bits of bent wood with string attached, which they didn't invent.

IanS 

[bigjackmac]

Phil - If you've been sleeping nights, you've had time study up on the martial arts

Ian - I've been looking everywhere and can't find 'Welsh' on a map, so I think he's making that up too 

V/R,
Jack

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Ian - I've been looking everywhere and can't find 'Welsh' on a map, so I think he's making that up too 

Colonials - sheesh  Welsh as comes from Wales......

IanS   

[fsn]

Yes. Like the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Ok - so foreigners cant spell - Vicky being German and naming that rgt.

IanS

[bigjackmac]

"...Welsh as comes from Wales......"

Thanks, Captain! 

I thought you Brits were known for your sense of humo(u)r?   

V/R,
Jack

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Welching out again Ian?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

"...Welsh as comes from Wales......"

I thought you Brits were known for your sense of humo(u)r?   

What a sense of humor ?? - I never 'ad one 

IanS

[bigjackmac]

"...I never 'ad one."

Me either, turns out Pendraken don't sell'em.

Lemmey will be happy to know I'm working on my latest account of the Russians roughing me up again this past weekend...

V/R,
Jack

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Uh oh! 

[bigjackmac]

Yeah, Phil's not gonna like it. 

V/R,
Jack

[Techno]

 

Cheers - Phil

[bigjackmac]

And just remember Phil, this had nothing to do with our little spat the other day 

V/R,
Jack

[bigjackmac]

Just kidding, neither Phil nor Lemmey feature in this next fight.

But it is ugly, gonna need more replacments...

V/R,
Jack

[bigjackmac]

Next one will be posted this evening, so slip on your reading glasses!

V/R,
Jack

[bigjackmac]

All,

It's 0130 on 7 August 1986, and Team Whiskey is in dire straits.  Following the crushing defeat of Kilo Company yesterday in Frankfurt-Am Main, V Corps has been tossing ad-hoc units into the fray to stem the flow of blood as various NATO forces fall back and herd civilian refugees across the last bridge still standing (in the Frankfurt area).  As dusk on the 6 Aug 1986 falls, the two sides retract from each other to lick their wounds and reorganize, with NATO stepping up its withdrawals to the south/west bank of the Main river.

However, by approximately 2130 on the 6th, deep reconnaissance noted Soviet armored elements forming up, and by 2300 they had broken through the thin outer line manned by West German Territorials.  V Corps, in the midst of evacuating itself, as well as supervising the evacuation of various severely beaten NATO units as well as civilians from a number of European nations, is very disorganized.  As a last ditch effort, 11th ACR's commander turned to Lt Col Lacy and begged him for units to stuff into the breach.

Lt Col Lacy immediately dispatched his Executive Officer, Major Kavscott, with Lt Lamanchew's 3rd Mechanized Infantry Platoon of Kilo Company, Captain Sighe's 1st Mechanized Infantry Platoon of India Company, and Lt Dillon's 1st Tank Platoon of Charlie Company.  The Brigade also provided a single AH-64 Apache as air support.  Lt Col Lacy's last words to his XO were "Major, every second you hold the bridge open is another soldier or civilian saved from the Red horde."


The opposing forces, with Soviets on the left and US on the right.  As usual, the Team Whiskey force is badly outnumbered.  But this time the Soviets actually have the services of a MiG-23 armed for ground attack at their disposal.

The US has two Mech Inf platoons, 2 machine gun teams, four TOW missile launchers, a platoon of 81mm mortars, a platoon of M1 Abrams, and an Apache.  Due to supply issues, each US rifle team is down to one LAW (vice their normal two).  The Soviets, with six mechanized rifle platoons, 3 machine gun teams, a company of T-72s, a ZSU-23/4 anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) vehicle, the MiG-23 (making one bomb run), and six fire missions from two 2S1 122mm self-propelled howitzers.

I've got a bad feeling about this...


Overview of table, north is up.  The US force is occupying a line roughly from the top left corner to the bottom right corner.  The Soviets are entering the table at top right, needing to exit off the board at bottom left.  Tanks must use the bridge, but BMPs may swim.  All of that gray  mess is supposed to represent a paved slipway leading down to the river.


Soviet BMPs return fire as TOWs come running in.  To see how the fight is going, please check the blog at:
http://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2015/10/team-whiskey-fulda-gap-batrep-7-part-i.html

More to come, so stay tuned guys.

V/R,
Jack

[Techno]

I don't suppose you've ever seen 'Dad's Army', Jack.

There was a character in that, called private Fraser.
One of his oft repeated phrases was, "We're doomed."

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Bad day at the office for the grunts? Time to send in the cooks and bottlewashers!

[toxicpixie]

I think they did that two battles ago! It's not going well is it :S Better start practising my Russian...

[bigjackmac]

Phil,

"I don't suppose you've ever seen 'Dad's Army', Jack."
Negative, only heard of it on wargames forums.  If I recall correctly, there's actually some folks that created wargaming armies to play it out (I'm guessing Operationa Sealion?).

"One of his oft repeated phrases was, "We're doomed.""
Lately that's been one of my oft repeated phrases 

Lemmey,

"Time to send in the cooks and bottlewashers!"
As Toxicpixie mentioned, that was done a few battles ago!  And since then, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment has folded four squadrons down into two squadrons, due to losses.  Not much gas left in the tank...

TP,

"It's not going well is it?"
Dammit, I'm doing the best I can!!! 
To me it has a certain late-WWII Eastern Front feel.  There's no denying the US has better kit and training, and they're punching well above their weight, but just being eaten alive by the constant swarm of ants.
I've always wondered why the US went with quality over quantity, after the US used Shermans and the Soviets used T-34s to stomp the crap out of the Germans with quantity over quality.

I've got to finish this one up, then I've got three more fights left in this campaign.  I can see the finish line!  Then I can get back to my smaller-scale fights; these have been exhausting!

V/R,
Jack