TOTAL WAR 1985

[wulfir]

PlasmaKrab said:
Great, Hackett scenarios! Testing right away!

To be fair, the OPERATION STOSS scenarios are not quite Hackett based, but there is some material floating around, so I thought it could be fun to include. IIRC Hackett had the WP leave West Berlin more or less untouched...

PlasmaKrab said:
What do you have on the French sector forces at that point?

The main army combat formations were, from what I understand, one tank Bn (11th Regiment Chasseurs) and one mech inf Bn (46th Regiment d'Infanterie), supported by an engineer company.

But there were also a number of Misc forces, including the Base Ariénne 165 at Berlin-Tegel. The actual plans of deployment etc is of course mostly guesswork, but what the h*ll...

[The_Warrior]

You can do Team Yankee battles. Harld Coyle's book is set in Sir John Hackett's stoy of the third world war. It will give you alot more battles. Also, don't forget the Third World War, Untold Story. This is also by Sir John Hackett.

[Smersh]

very nice. looking forward to more scenarios.

[valo2000]

one thing i dont know that there is a Airport called Hegel in berlin. we call it Tegel ;P

[wulfir]

valo2000 said:
one thing i dont know that there is a Airport called Hegel in berlin. we call it Tegel ;P

Well..., just weeks prior to WWIII the airport was renamed in honour of the great German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Originally Immanuel Kant had been suggested, but a popular British comedy group had constructed a song where the ryhme "Immanuel Kant was a real p*ssant" was included, and there was some speculation as to this being the reason why Hegel was chosen in the end. Later events (WWIII) greatly overshadowed the various twists surrunding the renaming of the airport.



No, seriously...., it's a typo.

[narwan]

Hmm, wasn't Hackett the guy who made the dutch look bad in the fight!

[wulfir]

The Dutch..., IIRC there was something about Dutch troopers having too long hair..., but look bad, I dunno - the Danes and Italians get hammered..., so too the Austrians..., the Finns don't even fight...hmm...

[The_Warrior]

narwan said:
Hmm, wasn't Hackett the guy who made the dutch look bad in the fight!

No. I read both books and if I remember right, the Dutch did well. In the battle of Minden(Third World War, The Untold Story), the Dutch with U.S. Air Force support stop an Warsaw Pact break out attempt cold.

[centurion77]

"But there were also a number of Misc forces, including the Base Arié®®e 165 at Berlin-Tegel. The actual plans of deployment etc is of course mostly guesswork, but what the h*ll..."

I added the Gendarmerie company with AML 60's