Koen Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) Hi, Hereby a short battle report on OP 1973 Sinai-Chinese Farm - 1st scenario - this to: 1) say thx to the scenario designer (Volcano) for his efforts 2) maybe spark some tactical discussions. I played this sencario 3 times - and lost also 3 times 😊 1st take: * No plan * Just move the tanks towards the open space between Obj SAUL & Obj GOLIATH & we'll see what happens. Actually we hope to stop the enemy there * And move the AMX to Obj DAVID to occupy this objective, to gain victorypoints * Result: a short mission, where we are no match for an onstorming ENY 2nd & 3rd take: * Now we have a plan !: Intent: defend only 1 Obj, SOLOMON a) TKS attempt to flank ENY a.1) first from the hills left of Obj SAUL (approx. 390 680) a.2) upon pressure retreat to 400 683 (right of MATZMED) to flank from those hills any attackers of Obj SOLOMON b) AMX flanks from further away, near 410 682 c) INF deploys in wood in obj SOLOMON Result: * Result of both takes: we could not stop ENY before end-of-mission at 35 min. * While the TKS & AMX remained largely intact in the 2nd take !, we lost most of them in the 3rd take Lesson learned * Don't be silly: don't stand in the way of an overwhelming ENY force => Flanking is good ! * Retreating along the desert - so not on a road - turned out to be very slow => Need to take this into account next time * AMX vs ENY TKS seems not to be a balanced match. But the AMX might have slowed down a 1st wave of ENY BTR50 & by thus reduced the SAGGER-threat ? => I probably should have taken the AMX with our TKS forward ? Other things I could have done better ? ! I had a blast ! Edited May 14, 2021 by Koen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngel Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Played this scenario (a lot), we often play them during testing. There are a couple of really good positions. First is there is a small hill near the ( bracket of Matzmed (North) text . There is another one near your waypoint 20 but on the road in a hull down position. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 Take 🎬 4: * Not only the TKS move forward to flank the ENY, but also the AMX, as these were underused. * 💡: Stay away from ENY INF and their RPG-7 (firing range: 300 m) * I remained in the CO M113 & ordered movements of the various PLT with triggers: very immersive, great fun 😊 ! Issues & result: * PLT getting entangled when all rushing to more or less the same spot at the same time… * Retreat: ordered too late 🙁 & too slow in reverse * Most units destroyed in 15 min !!! 😳 Buuut, I may have a better idea More about it tomorrow 😎 NB What a nice MAP ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bond_Villian Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 I think this SINAI Campaign will be played in the TGIF rotation again soon (H2H version). Keep an eye on that @Koen sounds like you'd enjoy it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen Posted May 22, 2021 Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 On 5/16/2021 at 1:46 AM, Bond_Villian said: I think this SINAI Campaign will be played in the TGIF rotation again soon (H2H version). Keep an eye on that @Koen sounds like you'd enjoy it Thx Bond_Villian ! (but I'm only into SP, not MP, mainly due to lack of time) Take 5 Fresh courage + new plan: Flank ENY from BOTH flanks: South as before, but also from North. This means dividing up the COY in 2 groups, that are km away from each other, that may risk firing on each other => Question pls: would this be done in real life ? The result: * 400 points out of 1000, as we held the main OBJ, * but that still counts as a defeat OK, I can't win this one (as happened in 1967 as well, I guess, in the 1st hours) => If someone has tactical advice to win here (in SP), that would be welcome. Still: WAS GREAT FUN - thx for the scenario, Volcano ! (and it only starts as this was the 1st mission of the operation) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandur Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Not sure if this is still relevant, i play this yesterday first time and won it, but it was a tight match. If you would have asked me, id say i lost it, but game gave me a total victory. All i did was to scout well in the briefing with the 3d view for favourable terrain overlooking the objectives and i found some positions. I made it so that the shot kal tanks are 150 to 250 meters in front of the AMX "tanks", so the shot kal will "tank" the damage while the AMX can fire from the rear(first row of palm trees when you arrive from east) largely unmolested... that worked out great. It started to fall apart by the time my shot kal tanks ran out of ammo in the ready rack and had to reload ... i was overwhelmed with the effort and some started reloading in plain sight of the enemy and got shot. At that time the AMX tanks started to feel the heat as they became the target. As i took command of my last working shot kal and managed it by hand to reload some ammo in a dip i managed pop the last 3 t55´s that came charging forward, and yahweh be praised, the scenario ended right there with a major victory. In the AAR i saw they had one MTLB left and quiet a few troops but that was it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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