Hi guys,
last thursday I joined the weekly BG ANZAC steelbeasts multiplayer session.
Whe had a party of 3 guys from australia, 1 guy from australia who lives in new zealand, 2 guys from denmark, 1 from canada an me from germany.
We played a not so easy mission.
Tac197 was the last who joined in, so he had the honour to lead us during the battle.
Here the mission briefing and the starting positions with the plan of our CO.
I was a platoon leader and had 4x M1A2(SEP). My callsign was “12”.
I had support from Tacbat (canadien). He was running the platoon seargent section.
You can see the PL CORK and the “platoon area 12”. I checked the line of sight from there, and you can see I could a lot of areas observe (the red marked).
good morning australiaaaaaaaaaa
looks like I need my NVG.
We moved in position, the “11” tank platoon was left of us, the V31 recon platoon to our right, observed the border line along a ridge. Our mechanized infantry platoon I23 prepared a defensive position to block a crossing point of the CAUSEWAY. The engineers “E21” working to lay a minefield.
At this time we had our first engagement with the enemy. 3x T90s, 1x BRDM-2 and 1 MT-LB are destroyed in the north.
The Javelin team of V31 destroyed one T-90 (reference point MP1015).
Here you see the graveyard of the enemy recon force in the north.
Now the enemy knew our positions and tried to cover his attack with a smoke screen along the ridge line.
Hehe but we have thermal imager.
V31A under enemy arty fire.
Our CO and the maintenance dudes in the rear area.
The enemy tried to recon the center route between PL BEER and CORK.
But our recon guys are in position and can observe everything.
The view of our dismounted observer squad.
The Javelin team of our recon guys changed their position, protected by an enemy smoke screen.
Just in time to report some new tanks in the north.
They lost one guy, but shot back.
At this time we gave the enemy recon force a bloody nose, but now are the main body arrived. The big question was: where is the main effort, north or south?
I can observe the movement of our recon guys west of the ridge. My platoon seargent observed to the north and I changed my position to observe the center ridge line.
My M1 (I love the australia skinpackage).
Something is moving over the ridge to our east and “11” and “12” engaging tanks in the north.
The enemy tanks in the north had no chance against eight M1s in position and it looked like they changed their main effort to the center. Our CO ordered the V31 recon guys back. I spotted a MT-LB and took him out.
My gunner reported an enemy infantry men, time for some coax action.
There must be some more infantry but the enemy forward detachement was comming closer.
My platoon under arty fire HE/smoke.
The fire fight started and “11” and we gave our best. The enemy FO in my TIS.
Ok, I give you another sabot.
So everything went very good. My wingman got one hit and had an injured driver. So in steelbeasts this means you can`t move the tank. You have to send an ambulance to the tank, but it takes 15 minutes for the reanimation. So in this delay mission I called for the ARV to bring the tank to the rear area and to heal the driver there.
“11” and I covered the recovery mission. In the meantime our CO ordered my platoon to PL ACK.
During our fire fight on PL CORK I requested an ammo truck on PL BEER. So a perfect team work again.
We arrived PL ACK and the ammo truck was in place.
Our recon guys reported a tank platoon moving south and a tank company in the center and more enemy reinforcements. We had to reload faster.
Ok, I sent my platoon seargent to the ridge, to protect our right flank. With the other 2 tanks we moved in position to welcome the center guys. In the end it was a bad idea and you guys will see why.
The tanks south came over the ridge and were in my right flank. My seargent gave his best, but there came more than one platoon. The first enemy tank fired and I hit him a second later. I destroyed him but he hit me too and I lost my driver, loader and my fire control system. I got two hits today and every time I lost the driver.
The OMEN were bad for the rest of the battle.
Tacbats second tank got a hit too and lost his ammo storage and the driver and gunner, and another T-90 destroyed my tank.
So at this time we had one tank with an injured driver in the rear area, visiting the uncle doctor, one tank with injured driver on PL ACK and the fully operable tank of my seargent. The enemy was pushing in the south with a tank company.
good night…
Ah ja, I forgot to say the enemy was attacking the center area with two reinforced tank companies.
Our other tank platoon lost one callsign too and was fighting against the center guys. The engineers finished their minefield and withdrawed. Our infantry guys were in position to over watch the mine field and to block the crossing point. Tacbat was fighting against our enemy tank platoon, but got also the first hits.
He destroyed 2 more T-90s, but died seconds later.
There was one M1 left with the injured driver, not very long.
The ambulance in the “rear area” needed 11 more minutes to reanimate my driver.
I used “” because the enemy distance to the “rear area” was 1200m.
Our CO decided to fall back with all callsigns. So bad luck for me, the ambulance said good by.
The ARV was not available at this time, it was recovering a “11” callsign.
It was a withdraw under enemy pressure with a lot of enemy arty fire.
One T-90 came very close, but was taken out by a “11” callsign.
I can see the turret.
What comes next…
My position under arty fire and the ARV try to survive.
Last man standing of the 12 platoon…
run away guys, faster…
hey M113 wait, we want to jump in…
ok, we dig in…
and red was pushing and pushing…
11B the last tank of our party.
Did I wrote the enemy was pushing…
…run faster…
We did not gave up.
We had a Javelin team in the flank of the enemy attack but only 2 missiles left, damn we needed a arcade magazine now.
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What we can do to stop the enemy?
We have a M113AS4 with cal.50, maybe we can destroy some tracks.
ähmm, no, but we have a maintenance M113, we can try to ram…
…ähmm no,
I make a try with the Unimog…
no luck,
and now the G-wagon…
no try because the host stopped the session.
and we got a victory, better a pyrrhic victory.
What a mission, my platoon lost the battle on PL ACK. Next time we fall back to PL RUM and try to flank out the southern attack, and after that to delay the main body.
But as always good teamplay and a nice thursday morning with the comrades from down under.
The last pictures are a time lapse, were you can see all (own and enemy) callsigns in the mission.
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Thank you to all participants and thanks for reading.
cheers
Duke