NationStates Jolt Archive

Hello and welcome to the Har Land International Joint Operation Tactics Center, (HI-JOTC). Here we will learn, develop, and employ tactics to various given scenarios. Knowing your terrain and reading the enemy are essential.

All nations are welcome to try their hand at this. Due to the time required in the creation of certain scenarios, and positioning all necessary equipment, some tactics may not be tested. However we will try to test every idea.

These scenarios may be given either daily, every other day, or once every few days.

Here is the first official scenario:



You are in charge of protecting a small port town that has essential docks to unload troops. Right now, you must defend it will available resources, re-inforcements are on their way.

You:

3x Fireteams of 5 men
3x Fireteams of 4 men
2x Fireteams of 3 men and 1 corpsman.
22x mines
4x M2 Machine Guns
3x Leopard 2A4 Tanks
8x Mark2 PBR's
2x Heavy AT weapons (Finish APHALIAS thingies. They can take out or disable a tank in one hit in some cases, but they are one shot. 2 weapons and 1 missile per. So you've only got two rockets)
You have ammunition and repairs. You tanks are fully loaded, but fuel is a concern. You have the necessary equipment to entrench your tanks.


Them:

Possibility for several heavy armor.
Attack will most likely be carred out by Russian Naval Infantry
The enemy does not have air support. Their airport took some big hits last night

Map (http://www.tacticalblunder.com/~uploads/Harnu/NSWG1-1.jpg)

The forests are thick, infantry will not be able to pass through these in large numbers.
The area you must defend is lower than surrounding areas.
Each square on that map is 128x128meters. This should give you an idea of the area you are defending.

OOC Hint/Info

You fortifications will be up against a well executed and planned attack. Possibly followed by waves of soldiers. Make

sure you can hold out until reinforcments arrive. (They will arrive 10 mins after the battle begins, with various air support).


OOC: There are various ways into the area you must defend. An example of something you could do, is keep some of the AT men in a certain spot, and allow them to react whereever the armor, if there is any, is. If the map is too hard to read, tell me and I'll save one that is higher quality, and possibly with the terrain colors on there. This is a large scale scenario with a lot of people and equipment. Some peoples suggestions of tactics may be left out if they are too similiar to other ones.

Here (http://www.tacticalblunder.com/~uploads/Harnu/NSWG1-2.jpg) is and picture of the area a civilian chopper took a while back.

Okay, the first thing's first, I want the area in front of that clump of trees and the road leading to the town mined with a slight numerical bias towards the road. Second, I want the five man fireteams prone on the forward small hill with two .50s flanking them. Second, I want the other fireteams prone on the rear small hill and ready to reinforce the five man fireteams on the forward hill, I also want the other two .50s on the flanks of the second hill fireteams but they are not to move. Next, I the BPRs on divided evenly and placed on the flanks of the infantry on the hills, with the rear hill BPRs moving up to replace any of the forward BPRs. I want the tanks along the left grove of trees and ready to meet any tanks that may support the Naval Infantry. Finally, I want the two AT Missileers along the right grove between the two hills to surprise any tanks that decide to show their ugly faces.

OOC: Frankly, I don't expect this to be a real success and if they hold off the opposition for ten minutes I'll be surprised.

BPR's? I assume you mean the PBR's, in which case, a PBR is a boat. (Patrol Boat River). They have dual M2 machine guns mounted on the front.

The M2's are mounted, and really can't be moved in the middle of a battle. It would take a bit of scripting to achieve it moving.

And please tell me your tactic again. But instead of saying a physical desc. of where you want stuff, please use the grid coordinates. (You can see them on the edges of the map)

Shit, that just screws my strategy to hell then. Can you tell us where the M2s are mounted so that I can know how to ancor my defenses?

You can tell me where to put the M2's. They can me mounted where ever you want.

You:

3x Fireteams of 5 men
3x Fireteams of 4 men
2x Fireteams of 3 men and 1 corpsman.
22x mines
4x M2 Machine Guns
3x Leopard 2A4 Tanks
8x Mark2 PBR's
2x Heavy AT weapons (Finish APHALIAS thingies. They can take out or disable a tank in one hit in some cases, but they are one shot. 2 weapons and 1 missile per. So you've only got two rockets)
You have ammunition and repairs. You tanks are fully loaded, but fuel is a concern. You can the necessary to entrench your tanks.

Why didn't your just say 9x Fireteams of 4, in which case you could have just as easily said 3 Squads since Fireteams are groups of 4 men and Squads are 3 FT's plus 1, guess that would have been too easy.

Because I'm listing the groups in the sizes that they are given from the addon makers.

One of the "Fireteam Alpha" is 5 men (5 because he fifth is the squad leader), bravo uses 4 men, charlie is a 4 man team, but one of them is a medic.

And instead of listing them in squads I keep them in fire teams so it makes them more move independtly as fire teams.

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Does no one like defend tactics or do I just need to bump this?

I'll give it a go.

Firstly, 2 M2 machine guns along with 2 teams of 5 and 1 team of 4 around Hd12. Put about 12 mines on the way from there to the shore.

Put 2 Leopard tanks in Hi13, but be ready to deploy them to whereever they're needed.

Put the remander of the machine guns and the tank leftover in Hd9, along with the AT weapons and rest of the fireteams.

4 PRBs patrol HA7 to HB3, and the others HA12 to HB8.

Stick the rest of the mines along the coastline.

Nice job. Your choice of mine placement was great. Two T12um1 Black Eagle tanks. (Heavy armor) ran right into the minefield

The two Leopard's mowed down some infantry coming down the road. And the last leo destroyed incoming light armor, and amphibious vehicles from the sea.

The rifle squads took out the rest of the enemy. And there was sufficient numbers and position to kill a wave of infantry.

Good job Exonerate :)

As you solved that one pretty perfectly, I'm off to create another scenario. Expect it tommorow or the day after.

Yay :D

This looks interesting, I think I might become a regular for this thread :wink:

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I'll get a scenario tommorow. Was going to do it today but I had to dig myself out of the snow first :?