Firestorm: Stripes

Stavka had orderd an attack on Niederbayern sector for early morning, so our troops gathered in their assembly area. Satelite photos had shown strong british forces in this sector and our goal is to push them back.

A scouting force of two brave Motor Rifle Companies led by their commander Major Helmchen probed the enemy defenses. A well fortified british Infantry Company was identified.

Even before our attack has begun the Brits pushed forward with a platoon of Chieftains in a suicidal manner. Our troops were surprised as they didn't expect this amount of courage from the British. They only know them hiding and digging deep foxholes. Luckily a flight of Frogfoot was in the area and responded quick to our call for ground support.

The loss of one of their tanks let the Brits lose all of their courage and send them running back to their lines where they are protected by their infantry.

The surprise of attacking british forces didn't stick and our troops reacted with a massive counterattack to pressure the british Objective.

With the Chieftains gone this flank seems to be the hole where we can push through and exploit our attack. So all forces were send in, even the Scouting Force from Major Helmchen.

On the way to the weakend flank we suffer losses by cowardly Milans hiding in a building. But our brave Motor Rifles hold the lines against british Forces trying to reinforce their besieged objective.

All of our reserves were mobilised to dislodge the defending british infantry. While british recon troops poor in as their reserve we manage to isolate the objective from any reinforcements.

The british recon vehicles take their toll from the light armoured BMPs but our soldiers stand brave and fight down all sprouting resistance. The defending infantry is melting away, supported by Frogfoot. But a faulty batch of missiles (probably sabotaged by imperial agents) prohibits any losses of british lives.

British mortars try to conceal the british foxholes with smoke to stop our tanks from hitting them. But the tank commander Oberstlieutnant Krabowsky orderd a furious charge against the last surviving infantry to sweep them away.

Our troops have crushed the british line with minimal own casualties. We will now exploit this gap and poor our troops farther into the heart of West Germany.

This game was part of a gaming day with Larks. The 3 games played this day were our first TY games we we are still learning to move the troops properly. We are FoW veterans so decided to have though but funny games. This was this kind of game we were looking for. It was extrem thrilling with lots of movement and the objective was taken in the last possible turn (we agreed to play a max of 8 turns). So it ended 5:2 for Warpac.

Although it was intense fighting Warpac only lost 2 Platoons (BMP-1). The Brits on the other hand lost nearly all of their army with only 1 Scorpian Platoon, 1 Infantry Platoon, Mortar Platoon and Milan Platoon surviving. My MVP were the BMPs backed up by the T-55. They are so fast and squishy and put out loads of damage to small and medium vehicles. The Frogfoot were underwhelming although the showd up 4 times in 8 rounds. With only the Chieftains as high value targets their use was very limited and as they failed to hit properly they only destroyed 1 Chieftain and 2 stand of infantry in the whole game.

The game was a ton of fun and initiated orders for more stuff (BRDM, Carnations etc.). I am looking forward to more games in the future.