The Red Leopard

[Tacbat]

Frag O for mission 4 is out. Drop me a PM if you want to take a look (blue players only please ).

[12Alfa]

Good going Blue. Still in NTC and reading the blue victories from sunny Ca, well some sun, but lots of rain to wash away our tent floor. It's all good.

Keep up the good work!!

Playing SB on the NTC map will never be the same for me now....

[GaryOwen]

Sorry about having to leave the planning session early. If someone could send me the final Redfor map graphics, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[Itkovian]

Well, I disappear for a year or so, and I'm glad to see things are still going strong. I have to say this looks like a great campaign.

I don't suppose I could get a peek at the AARs, by any chance? I'd love to see how things went.

Itkovian

[Hedgehog]

Look through this thread, they're all there.

[Volcano]

Sorry about having to leave the planning session early. If someone could send me the final Redfor map graphics, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Sure, no problem, I will email it to you.

[GaryOwen]

Thanks. Got it. Having the time to do a thorough map appreciation and planning seesion makes a big difference. Myself not being one of the better 'gunners' it's better to rely on planning, especially when facing guys like Dave, who might actually kick ass if he were ever to show up.

He'd probably just retreat though.

[Itkovian]

Look through this thread, they're all there.

Bah, you are correct. I didn't go through each page of the thread, and looks like I managed to hop around the pages that had them.

Thank you.

Itkovian

[Vacquero]

Tac I won't be able to make it tonight. Household 6 needs me to do some stuff. Hopefully next week.

[Tacbat]

Rgr, thanks for the heads up.

[Hedgehog]

Well, that went well.

Died twice and bagged myself 3 BRDMs and 6 Leopard AS1s.

Could be worse.

For RL 5:

http://www.facebook.com/events/edit/index.php?new&gid=28149831014&step=2&eid=338412440169#!/event.php?eid=338412440169&ref=mf

[Sean]

AAR Mission 4

http://www.steelbeasts.com/aar/Red_Leopard_Camp_04.rar

[Tacbat]

Good game all! Action packed to say the least. Thanks to everyone who stayed up late/got up early to partake.

Expect another good fight in mission 5.

[Retro]

Doesn't look too good for Blue, does it? In the north, all tanks got wiped out, in the south it looks like there's one platoon left.. and what looks like 2 companies of mech infantry. Air support was a bust as well (got itself killed in the no-go zone).

Red got mauled as well of course (is there more than on battalion left?) but now it doesn't look like there's a lot remaining to oppose them.. have to check reinforcement schedule

[Edit: and here it is]

Red: After 4th mission => 33% of Full Regiment Strength

Blue: MBT: USA – 2 ESP – 1 DEN – 1

SCOUT: ESP – 1

APC/IFV: ESP – 1

[Eisenschwein]

Naa, BLUE wreck 126 RED Elements and lose 35 !!!!!

B stop RED advantage in the south completly, C do their best in the middle and shoot them out.

Only Thing what is missing, was a Counter Attack !!

I don´t think BLUE have a Problem.

[fidelthefallguy]

I think Blue did very well to last as long as we did this time especially in the north. The terrain offered little chance to hold ground and most of our fighting was played out in the open. and at close range giving red a good opportunity to fight back. Well done Sean on his sneaky flank near the end of the game. well do to all of red for being such good conon fodder haha >120 dead tanks. how many btn's is that under Russian doctrinaire?

Sorry we go wiped out Tacbat, but I could not seam to break of the engagements to with draw. No where to run you know. But my guys had fun and racked up a good kill ratio. I guess next week we have to make every unity count. It will be fun.

see you all next time.

[Tacbat]

NP Fidel.

Because of you and Eis looking after your Companies, I was able to get in and have some fun myself. Thanks for that.

There's only so much you can do, but hopefully everyone learned something. I was willing to make a bit of a stand this week knowing that our reinforcements for the next mission are fairly substantial, so hopefully they'll bail us out.

Fortunately, Red took it on the chin too, so I would say that overall we broke about even.

[Tacbat]

A couple of points for Blue after looking through the AAR:

1) Identify your target, we can afford blue on blue fire.

2) When falling back under contact, do so in reverse. It's slower, but it presents the EN with your strongest armour. A number of our vehicles were lost with shots in the rear. Time your withdrawl accordingly with the slower speed, and use overwatch positions.

3) Use smoke when engaging targets. If you can't get a good lase through the smoke (which is normal), get out and let the AI do the shooting, or manually enter the range. Critical for long range engagements. Also, the M2's have engine smoke, so turn it ON. Reload your smoke grenades.

4) PC's don't fight tanks intentionally. Their sole purpose in this campaign is to carry troops. If we lose a PC, then we lose the troops as well. Drop them off and run, unless the plan calls for something else (ex: TOW's).

[pongo]

Is anyone going to make/upload a video of this series?

I still enjoy watching the old youtube vids of LNoT etc., so a new one would be great

[DrDevice]

Minor addition:

1) Identify your target, we cannot afford blue on blue fire.

[Grenny]

A couple of points for Blue after looking through the AAR:

...

2) When falling back under contact, do so in reverse. It's slower, but it presents the EN with your strongest armour. A number of our vehicles were lost with shots in the rear. Time your withdrawl accordingly with the slower speed, and use overwatch positions.

(==> addition here, Our tactical handbook says: Local success panders disengagement from the enemy. In short...If an enemy platoon is rigth on top of you, you can only fall back if you kill them first and fast.)

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4) PC's don't fight tanks intentionally. Their sole purpose in this campaign is to carry troops. If we lose a PC, then we lose the troops as well. Drop them off and run, unless the plan calls for something else (ex: TOW's).

for point 4: Don't want to bragg around here...but I killed 3 enemy tanks(AT-squad kills not counted) with my M2s, without loosing a single PC. 8-)

[fidelthefallguy]

Yer same here, I kind of left my pc's in place too long and ended up having to fight with them, I lost two, but I killed at I think 6 enemy pc's. Some times you just have to fight and can run away.

[Volcano]

...well do to all of red for being such good conon fodder haha >120 dead tanks. how many btn's is that under Russian doctrinaire?

That would be about four battalions which is not unheard of if higher apparently wants an all out breakthrough in this area. I would reckon though that we killed *nearly* two battalions worth of Blue tanks/IFVs though in the past two scenarios. The question will be if 2:1, 2.5:1 or 3:1 trades are good or bad, but it is all irrelevant anyway since it all comes down to time and space, not losses.

Speaking of PCs, we have plenty to spare. I wonder who that was at the end that presented the four M2s on a nice silver platter? It was good for morale. :diable:

[Volcano]

Calling all Ruskies, there is a break from the campaign this Friday so the map recon will be on WED, FEB 24th @ 2100 CST.

[fidelthefallguy]

Speaking of PCs, we have plenty to spare. I wonder who that was at the end that presented the four M2s on a nice silver platter? It was good for morale. :diable:

That was a platoon from B coy that some how got left behind in the with draw.