The balloon has gone up. This is a scenario I have designed as a possible initial step to a campaign. The premise of this scenario is to represent the first eight hours of war. The Soviet 8 GCA is sending the 27th Guards MRD ahead to reduce NATO forces covering the area just west of the inter-German border. The 27th MRD will arrive in stages based on a standard Soviet road march. It will be the three MRR up with the TR trailing to exploit the weakest point (and the AI seems to figure that out). The march order will show the Recon on map at scenarios start followed by the Advanced Guard at 15 minutes. The rest of the regiments follow on considering a 5 km gap and a 30 km rate of advance. DIVARTY is off map but REGAGs will deploy on map. In addition, there is a Army 152 mm BTN allocated for the first hour of the game to represent pre-assault bombardment.
The US forces are a Squadron of the 11th ACR RGT screening a balanced TF of Mech INF/Armor. It is supported by a BTN of M109s, a squadron of AH-1F, and two batteries of M110s. The helos and big guns appear as reinforcements. Four sections of A-10s rotate on and off the map throughout the game.
This basically represents the point in the battle where both sides can bring their "A" game. It assumes in the wake of the Soviet coup that the government and Army will need time to consolidate their hold and purge the ranks of dissidents. NATO is able to detect the build up and has a month to start reinforcement. Because this is a NATO scenario, I did not include NBC warfare as from what I have read, the AI struggles with those weapons
The purpose of this AAR is largely for critique. Would love if scenario designers would chime in on ideas to make the scenario better.
