Soviet Everoed Airfield Hasty Defense
My OOB Soviet purchase for the Everoed Airfield hasty defense is a classic Soviet airborne drop of a battalion augmented with a spetsnaz airborne company. I choose to drop the force (from AN-12s transport aircraft) given the range to Everoed and back is beyond the combat radius of an air assault from a Warsaw Pact field (greater then 475km radius.) Furthermore, I based my unit buys on an assumption the Soviets would have to cover the Arctic Circle while cutting off Stockholm from Copenhagen to complete a plan to secure the airfield at Everoed. In the end, this was an explicit mission requirement that the Soviet force is composed of VDV units.
Additionally, I assumed the Soviet force quickly defeated the Swedes but headquarters had not time to airlift in heavy tanks, AA units, and helicopters, thus the assaulting force must hold the field until the arrival of a sealift force (meaning the NATO navies are at the bottom of the Baltic Sea or out of the area all together).
I built a force from 1985 (although in real-life the Soviets were being licked in Afghanistan with her air assault units suffering stupendous losses.) However, in this scenario I decided to depict units from the famed:
104th Guards Airborne Regiment
218th Battalion, 45th Airborne Spetsnaz Regiment.
In a subsequent post, I intend to describe the disposition of the Soviet force in the Everoed airfield area.