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Firestorm: Red Thunder

The Team Yankee Global Campaign

Frankfurt holds!

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British
Hawk02
VS Warsaw Pact
GeRi

A clear morning in the near of Frankfurt

Major Howard enjoyed his cup of tea and thinked about how the world could be without war as the sounds of nearing tanks came nearer.
Yesterday his small formation "Task Force Hawk" was ordered to reach a little village near Frankfurt. Why he could not understand, to defend Hannover was much more importand in his opinion. "OK", he think, "the high command will have their reasons, so we have to do our job".
He took his binoculars and put it into east to see what kind of vehicle that will be.
There where informations about some recon formations they operate in this sector, maybe reinforced with some T64.
The terrain was good and so he had ordered his "Scorps " and "Scimis" forwarded on his left flank, supported by 2 Swingfire from the Bravo Company.
"Commies spoted!", the com sounds. "Hey boys, clear massages!", he barked into the com: "What kind of vehicles and wich direction?", "Hawk01, this is Hawk02, a group of 4 BMP, comming from nordeast, heading west.", he thinked about the message, than an other follows: "Hawk02, 2 Shilkas spoted, same direction, heading to us."
"Ok, no time for thinking about the world without war", he thinked: "Good that the units are in good positions, now we have do our job." In the next moment he see some dust near the small farm and the sounds must be this from T-Tanks.
"This is Hawk01 to all, oncoming Soviet force, hold the Line and heads down, Fire on my command, good luck Gentleman!".
The battle began!
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Yesterday my friend GeRi and me made the third campaign game, our 2nd.
Because we build up our army`s we decided to play with 30 points.
We decided that he is the attacker (bad Russians ;)) and can choose the theater which will be played.
The short missions from BF came on the right time, so we could play one of them. The dice was rolled and showed a 1 - "Annihilation".

Ohh sh.. ;), no mission objectives and we must "Annihilate" all platoons of the opponent, "hmm ok", i thinked, "this will be a hard fight" and i should be right!
Now i will show you the battle with some pictures i made and write some words to this.

On the following picture you can see the whole battle.
Enjoy...

The whole battle in a picture!

Deployment

The army Lists

GeRi
- 1x T64 - Command
- 3x T64
- 2x BMP2 Recon
- 4x BMP2 Recon
- 2x Shilka

Hawk02
- 1x Chieftain Tank - Command
- 2x Chieftain Tank
- 2x Swingfire Tank Hunter
- 4x Scorpion Recon
- 4x Scimitar Recon

It was hard to decide where you put a unit, cause we don`t know who will have the first turn! 2 of my Scorpions Bogged as they want to "climp the hill" :(.

Round 1

Ok, than we knew who will have the first turn, Paul rolled a 4 and i a 3, hes was the attacker.
The T`s pushed the gas pedals and start to outflank my Chief`s, the 2 BMP`s left theirs positions. Also the Shilkas drive to get better firing position at the cropfield.
The rest of his army hold it`s.
Then it was time to fire. The T`s open the fire on my Chief`s bud could not land any hit, yes ;).
The BMP`s also open their fire but no hit was count.
Now it was time for the Shilkas, 10 Dices were roled, but only two hits score, 1 Scimitar explodes and one other must bail out.
The "Heads down" positions of my "little friends" could prevent them for higher loses.

The Russian raised the pressure on the right flank, to outflank my Chiefs!
The first shooting step of the Soviets.

Now it was time to give an answer!!!

The Crew of the Scimitar don´t want to go back to their vehicle.

I decided to Blitz the T-64 with my Chieftains, to clear the right flank, but the Dice sayed NO! I rolled, a 1 !!! What the fu...
Hmm, no plan lifes longer than 5 Minutes when the battle begins, so i decided to support the left flank with my Chiefs and brought it into position to attack the BMP`s, also to use the walls and buildings as concealmend for the next round. One of them bogged, they will be lost :(.
Ok, show must go on!
I brought my little friends (Scimitars and Scorpions) into position, the Swingfire hold the ground. One of the Scorpions had an engine problem, so it must stay on place.

The Scimitars opened fire and could land 3 hits at the Shilkas, one of them exploded, the other one bailed.
Than the Scorpions, 3 Hits!!! and 3 burning BMP´s later they chease their fire.
The Swingfires could not score any hit, but my Commander yet. He destroyed on BMP. The other Chief shoots at the BMP`s on the junction and destroyed one.

I would say, it was a very good shooting phase, Paul decided otherwise ;).

The battlefield after Round 1.
4 disabled BMP`s
Scimitars firing at Shilkas - HIT!!!

Round 2

But the battle was not over.
Now it was Paul`s turn.
The remaining Shilka crew don`t want to remount their vehicle.
He pressed the T-64`s into my right flank to give my Chieftains the rest. The last BMP holds position to destroy my Scimitar Platoon.
The fire of the T`s was horrible and two of the Chiefs burned.
The commander was a lucky man, the shots missed.
The remaining BMP shot at the "Scims" and could bail one.
It was time to test, but the glourious Scimi Boys decided to stay in battle, brave guys!

The Battlefield after Round 2 - 1
T-64`s pushing forward

Now it was time to react on the T`s, i must do something, my right flank was open.
One of the Scimitar Crews climp into their vehicle, the other one had get to much pressure and hold their heads down.
It was time to "Blitz" the T`s with my Commander! You can remember Round 1? Yes, a 1 was rolled, AGAIN!!! This ..., i could *censored* and ... *censored* ... ;).
Ok, i drove the man behind the workshop to shoot at the enemy, cause the left flank was cleared he onl the T`s to shoot at him.
The Scimitars hold their possition to engage the BMP and the last Shilka, also the Sorpions.
The Swingfire could be in sight if i would "Blitz" them into a new position, but also rolled a 1!!!

For me it was no "Blitz day" the 25.08.2017! ;-)

Some shoots later the last BMP was destroyed, but the Shilka was missed. My Commander could also not score a hit and so must wait for the reaction.

The Battlefield after Round 2 - 2

Round 3

Pauls turn.
The Shilka Crew don`t make any intentions to remound their vehicle. I think they looked at some pictures of "naked Madruschkas" ;).
He decided to flank my Commander to score a save hit and shoot at the Swingfire.
Fortunately hi miss!

The Battlefield after Round 3 - 1

The Scimitar Crew decided to remound their vehicle and so the unit could make ground.
A "Blitz Move" later they reach the junction near the cropfield.
My Commander decided to "Blitz" backwarts to make some ground, but you know the game :-) a 1, what else! So speed up and extended the range between the T`s.
The Sporpions regroup to flank the T-64 Platoon in later turns, if it would be possible.
My Swingfire`s where in good positions and could open the fire at the T`s and scored two hits. Two burned T-64 later the victory was concrete. But Paul made it.
My Commander missed, the Scimitars too ...

The Battlefield after Round 3 - 2
Two disabled T-64`s

Round 4 and 5

I will speed up now.
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Paul`s last chance was to destroy my Commander and the Swingfires.
So he pushed his T-64 forward to get new fire positions and hold the pressure.
The Shilka crew decided not to remound their vehicle.
In his shooting step he could destroy my Commander, nothing else happened.
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I pushed my Scimitars forward and destroyed the last Shilka. The Swingfire`s tryed to extend the distances between the T-64`s, one bogged, the other could reach the hill near the Scorpions and wait their for an other attack.
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Paul scored all dice draws and don`t fled. His shooting step was harmles.
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Now it was my turn.
The Scimitars make ground to get out of range of the T`s. In the case of no success on the botton of the table so i could score a draw, cause game run out of time.
The Swingfire in the forest bogged again, sh..., but the other one could reach a possition (Blitz) to attack one of the T`s, i scored a hit and Paul must test.
There was the 1 i needed!

So the victory was mine.

Round 4
Victourious Scimitars
Round 5
Swingfire attacks

Epilog

Captain Steel saw the burning tank of Major Howard and thinked. "What the fu.., they hid em realy hard, i hope the crew could bail out."
But there was no time to think about it. He had to send a report.
"Eagle Six, this is Hawk02", he wait some seconds, then a reaction cames in: "This is Eagle Six, speak.", "This is Hawk02, could stop a Russian advance at Alpha -2 and -4.", he looked at the mike and get a sad face, then spoke further: "Hawk01 is lost." ... "need replacements and wait for further instruction."
...
To be continued ...

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Best regards, Frank.

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