Entebbe is Ready. - Get it now!

WBWilder · #1 October 1st, 2005, 01:14 AM

Oh, one more thing. If you take long enough for that A0 Terrorist unit to appear, you'll need to speed things up a bit. You want all civilians out of there by turn 7 latest! Sooner if you can. Oops, loose lips sink Ships. I'll say no more.

WB

Busko · #2 October 1st, 2005, 10:28 AM

Thanks WBW, i'll look for the books and the links!

WBWilder · #3 October 1st, 2005, 01:55 PM

It can be done...

halstein · #4 October 1st, 2005, 05:29 PM

Played trough the Entebbe scenario. It is one of the best SP2/SPMBT/winSPMBT I have played. Did a little worse than the real Israelis. Lost no hostages, but only killed about half of the terrorist (but got some of Amin's guys too). Lost the Mercedes and 6 men.

Great job, Wild Bill!
Halstein.

markgame · #5 October 1st, 2005, 08:11 PM

I'm still losing hostages

. Glad to know that it's possible to avoid it, so I'm going to give it another try.

WBWilder · #6 October 2nd, 2005, 12:52 PM

Thank you so much, Halstein! I really appreciate that. I love to play this one. I do it over and over again, trying different tactics to get the job done.

One can quickly see (as Mark and I both have) that you can lose hostages. It is a very tight, tense scenario, watching the clock and watching the roadways, plus looking over your shoulder for those evil Palestinian terrorists who attack with a vengeance.

You'll get it done, Mark. Historically a few hostages were killed so I'll allow you that. Just avoid any sort of vicious slaughter. Losing one group of hostages can really hurt you.

Taking out those terrorists is a good way to get points.

But DON'T take too long to do it all. (Easy for you to say, Wild Bill!)

Siddhi · #7 October 10th, 2005, 09:28 AM

This is a magnificant little scenario, quickly playable and managable - plus with a great storyline and a couple of snazy design inovations.

One issue is raised by it however: I noticed that even the Israeli commandos are not granted an 'elite' experience rating, indeed 'elite' as a qualification has not been used for any of the standard OOBs, including SAS type commandos. The first question would be: who is exactly 'elite' then?

Secondly, historically the Israelli's suffered (IRC) a single casulty, Bibi netenyahu;s brother (the CO), although there were a couple of hostages killed. It is impossible to replicate this result, even under the following conditions:
- all israeli troops have had experience increased to 105-110.
- all terrorists have average exp. 60, moral 70
- all ugandans have average exp. 50, moral 60.

still the israeli's suffer casulties, which makes me wonder more about the game system. E.g. the ugandan gaurds react a little 'too well' (firing every single time someone enters a spotted hex) and the Israeli's tax casulties too easily (every single time 1 man goes down). If we actually look at the specifics - one full-allowance commando team moves 1 hex in a building and is fired upon by a unit 100m away AND causes casulties - it makes me think the building cover rating is insufficent, as well as the true differential between experience ratings too small. what is the actual difference between exp. 100 and exp. 60, besides ROF?