[Mopolopy]

4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards is attacked this time by 287/32 armoured regiment and not from the South-West but this time from the East, from East-Berlin.


Many soldiers were repositionned inside the 10 story building wich faced the exit of Checkpoint Charlie.
The sector was bombed again, lightly though, but very soon after, the noise of tank engines and caterpillars could be distincted...

"Lef-tenant ! They're coming !"
"Let them come private, do NOT engage until my hear my word."
"Prreparre the L.A.W. lads !"


Let them come... -Hey you're in the way git !


And so Ivan came. The soldiers could see various tanks and armored vehicles through the windows. T-72, T-62, BTR-60, BRDM 2 and one command T-80 ! The job was tough, indeed.

2nd Lt Adamson carefully watched the oncoming tanks. A BTR-60 passed the southern gate, briefly stopped to allow the following T-72s and a T-62 to catch-up with it, then it drove forward again.
Just beneath the town clock, the Chieftain gunner slightly moved the tank's turret to the right.

Adamson and his men saw the Soviet APC being blown to bits by the Cheftain's 120mm round.

Somthing like 50 meters away, the TOW launcher just next to the town clock destroyed a BRDM which had gone through the northern gate. But, while the TOW crew loaded another missile, the T-62M which followed the ex-BRDM advanced, fired, killing the TOW crew and fall back before the Chieftain MBT could engage it.




Meanwhile, Lt Adamson was still watching the Soviet tanks while a couple of Chieftains fired HE shells against Soviet infantry, devastating their ranks. In the same time, another T-62 aimed at one of the M113, south of the Wall gates. Unfortunately for the the Soviet crew, the M113/M901 gunner was quicker and fired a TOW missile at the aging T-62M wich returned fire a quarter of second after the missile shot. The M901 was hit by the 115mm round, leaving it burning. On the other side, the TOW hit the T-62, immobilizing it.

Inside the great building, the lieutenant began to slowly raise his right hand while private McFadyen aimed his Bofors AT4, at this precise moment, the other men moved themselves to the corner of the room, to avoid the launcher's back blast (they have had also spent a few hours digging holes in the interior walls yesterday).

In the street, the damaged T-62 had its turret pointing to the South while a couple of T-72 drove forward.




Adamson whispered "The one to the left, then Bowlby and Robinson hit the command tank on the right. FIRE !" and quickly lowered his hand.

The rocket perforated the tank's roof and exploded, followed by a pair of LAWs aimed at the command T-72. The first of the pair hit the frontal armor, but the second landed on the engine's armour plating producing an extraordinary effect !

The lieutenant himself then showed up at the window and fired a LAW to the fleeing crews.


The immoblized T-62 crew watched this scene with horror, they would be next, and the gunner immediately aimed the barrel at the windows.
Inside the building, private MacNeil was firing short bursts through the window when he noticed the tank and turned to his commander with a distraught face. The second after, the room was filled with dust, debries, noise... and blood splattered on the walls and even the ceiling. The T-62 could have hardly missed...

Completely deaf and still coughing, first class Heddle stood up with difficulty, his whole body ached, he'd just been blown away by the explosion. He distinguished the remains of what had to be MacNeil.
He yelled in a slow voice :
"Pick-up yourselves and move your arse gents !"
And then he collapsed to the floor. Private Cramer grabbed Heddle by the shoulders and dragged him to the back room with the help of Private Shannon.



Just a room next to them, the 3 shaken men stood up again and watched the Spetznaz team approaching the building. They were at the right distance this time.
The L1A1s spitted out volleys of bullets and in a matter of 5 seconds, all the Russian commandos were lying dead...

Another T-72 appeared, drove between the smoking wrecks of its companions, but was met by a volley of AT rockets from a third squad.

"They're pulling back !"

[Mopolopy]

Before we report the next battles, I must let you know about the situation at sea, which is pretty awkward for NATO right now !

Iceland has fallen to the Soviets, hence providing two airports for their reconnaissance and attack aircrafts.
NATO convoys from the USA to Germany are under direct threat from the Soviet submarines and their naval airfleet !

[Mopolopy]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

I thought about starting my campaign anew with new settings, my first settings were "line" for me and "elite" for the AI...

So, I will keep the precedent battle reports and add them into the new campaign, I'll make a little story about this change.
Now, my settings are "recruit" for AI andf "elite" for me.


After numerous failed attacks to break through NATO lines in Germany, the Soviets put into action early on their reserve divisions and managed to push NATO from invading East Gremany.
West Germany's border are being overrun, allied forces are holding but their forces have been depleted while the Soviets had had some fresh reinforcements !
Where is the French army ? Where is the Italian army ? Heck ! They're busy South !
But relax people, Canadian, Netherlander and Belgian regiments along with additionnal American ones are being ferried through the Atlantic. It will take a few days too to round up the forces present in Germany which were disorganised by Spetznaz commando attacks.
West Berlin is still holding, there is still hope.
Time is playing against the Soviets, they know that. Just hold that goddamned line soldier !
Aye sir !

[dgfred]

Looking forward to the new AARs and pics : . Thanks for your time and effort in posting this :smoke3 :ok1 .

[Mopolopy]

(Happy new year and Joyeuses Pâques, everyone ; I am preparing a late, little surprise christmas box )



Again, the 203 Pz/4th Panzer is in charge of the defense of Lübeck. This time, the region is invaded by the 239/21 motorised rifle regiment.

The Bundeswher soldiers were repositionned inside buildings, most of them inside the Maritim Hotel, from where they could observe the roads from which the Soviet vehicles should arrive shortly...

Indeed, on the other side of those roads, the Russian captain opened his tank hatch and observed with his field glass the incoming buildings. His T-72 was followed by a platoon of light vehicles. He was concerned with the number of German tanks that were creeping ahead, though he could not see them, yet.

The Germans were entrenched and ready. With their numerous Leopard 1 tanks and two additionnal artillery batteries, they would give the Reds a beating, as they had done with the marine batallion earlier.

"Down hatch." A Bravo-Tango-Romeo eight-zero followed by a Papa-Tango seven-six rolled into the street leading to the town's marina. A pair of infantry squads rushed inside the buildings for concealment just in time before their transports were blown to pieces by two German Leopards coming from the quays. "Hit! Load a HEAT round."
Both Leopard commanders had seen Ivans getting inside the "Lübeck Beaches" restaurant and pounded the building as soon as they had a visual on the Soviet infantry, disabling the two squads in half a minute.



Captain Kamarov, on the top of his T-72 turret, chose to divert his men to the south, toward the "Maritim Hotel", which, he expected, was heavily defended, too. But the road would be more practicle than the docks.
His driver advanced cautiously, men walking behind the tank.
Just the before the crossroad, the tank stopped and and the captain ordered 1st squad to climb into the nearest building in order to observe what was on the other side of the road.

A minute later, the Soviet lieutenant, commanding 1st squad, radioed his commander that a German tank was waiting just in front of the hotel. The lieutenant didn't see any other armour or soldiers.
The captain then turned to his forward observers, sitting on the back of the tank's hull.
"Well, get to work sarge.
-Aye aye capt'n !"

The Leopard was standing still, even when the first shell exploded, the tank did'nt move. The russian captain could not know the first round had dismantled the treads.

"Zuruck ! Los los los, schnell !"
German NCOs shouted at their men, hidden inside the maritim hotel to get down and move to a safer position. But after 30 seconds, the bombardment stopped. No shells had hit the building. Though there was heavy smoke coming from somewhere.
The unlucky Leopard was now in pieces.

The T-72 then moved forward, slowly, and caught glimpse of a fleeing Gepard SPAAG. The first AP shell blew one of the Gepard's gun, without more damage. Then came a second, then a third, then a fourth, then a fifth AP round ! All missed !
The captain was just enraged at his gunner when he saw another vehicle coming in front of his tank, another Leopard 1.
The T-72 found its fate, it was this Leopard, parked behind a couple of cars as additionnal hull protection.
The shock was deafening. The remaining Soviet infantrymen immediately ran for cover inside the nearby buildings while the captain jumped from the burning turret.
But the soldiers were out of luck, they'd been seen by the Germans who were now pounding the buildings facing the Maritim Hotel.

Meanwhile, an aufklarer team sneaked north of the now dreadful crossroad to try to have a visual on the Soviet remains. They reported the few survivors were running to the South-East, toward their lines.
Eventually the aufklarers pushed their luck and dissabled a PT-76 with Panzerfaust fire.

Again, losses were surprisingly low for NATO.

[general_solomon]

great aar. these look amazing. i wish this battle could have been fought on 3d map.

[Ryz]

excellent post killer.