Battle of the Gap – housekeeping

 The handful of surviving invading forces of Rubishland have retreated back to their side of the original border.  The one platoon of T-55’s that left the table made it into the Wilhelmsland fertile plains caused some panic, destroyed some crops, but was hunted down and destroyed by Helicopters before even coming in sight of the Wilhelmsland oil fields.

Clearly the next several months of game time will be spent re-equipping and training new troops for both sides.  I’ll have to figure out a way to determine how quickly the sponsor States of the two protagonists can ship them new equipment.  It should be fairly easy for the U.S. to send the old M-60 series tanks and M113’s from Europe to Eurica (after all it’s just down the coast of Africa from Europe) as the US upgrades to M-1’s and Bradley fighting vehicles (it is 1985 after all).  And the Soviet Union has more equipment than they know what to do with – unless they decide to shoot through the Fulda Gap and take Germany, so they can spare some for a Staunch Communist Ally.

President for Life Sanford will not allow this insult to the superiority of Rubishland military prowess to go, and he will be back.  He has a lot of Generals he can execute until he finds one that knows how to win.

So, on to the Butchers bill for the last action.

 

The attacking Rubishland forces lost the following in the Battle of the Gap:

·      12 T-72 platoons destroyed

·      10 T-55 platoons destroyed

·      8. BMP platoons destroyed

The rules have a mechanism to determining how many ‘destroyed’ units can be repaired and brought back, but since Rubishland fled the field, I’m ruling none of the above come back (at least not in Rubishland service – the reserve units of Wilhelmsland may be getting some T-72’s and T-55s).

The units that failed their quality check also have a chance to return, they weren’t destroyed just had significant mechanical damaged/failure, key personal were killed, etc.  Rubishland had the following forces fail their quality check in the battle:

·      9 T-72 Platoon’s – of which 3 were able to retreat back to Rubishland

·      7 T-55 Platoon’s of which 2 were able to retreat back to Rubishland

·      5 BMP Platoons of which 2 were able to retreat back to Rubishland

·      1 BRDM-2AT Platoon  which was able to retreat back to Rubishland

Wilhelmsland losses in the battle were:

·      5 M-60A3 Platoons of which 1 was able to return to service

·      5 Marder Platoons of which 1 was able to return to service

Wilhelmsland also had the following Platoons fail their quality check:

·      6  M-60A3 platoons of which 2 were able to return to service

·      2  M-60A1 platoons of which 1 was able to return to service

·      1 Marder platoon which was able to return to service

·      9 Platoons of dismounted Infantry of which 3 were able to return to service

The attacking Rubishland forces represented a little over 2/3’s of the total Rubishland uniformed forces so they will most likely behave for a while.  Wilhelmsland started with 4 Brigades, (2 each on the borders with Rubishland and Gardenstan) the 2^nd Brigade which fought the two actions in ‘The One Day War’ as it is being called will be down approx. 50% for some time.

There may be a few news reports posted regarding the war and the world response… but even in 1985 it wasn’t wise to believe everything the news told you.

On the Outlandishian Chronicles front, look for a return to the Renaissance era in the next month or so.  The leaves are starting to turn and the overnight temps are in the high 40’s to low 50’s, and for some reason I equate gaming that era in the fall-winter time frame. 

Sorry about the lack of photos in this post, but I haven’t really been painting the past couple of months.

Until next time,

So much lead, so little time