You can lie to yourself, but please don't lie to me...
The L52 AS-90 is not the same thing as the AHS Krab. The Krab is the L/52 Braveheart with the Korean chassis and a domestic Polish FCS. The AS-90 is either L/39 or L/52 but the British Army specifically chose not to upgrade to L/52 because of some issue with their ammo, not the design itself.
Ignore my sometimes finicky memory, found the post in question, you specifically mention using the L/52 gun not the AHS Krab and for whatever reason that got remembered as you using the AHS Krab, which you clearly do not.
Since, NS MIL likes its sources and I took the bother to double-check-here's the yummy sauce.
On a related note about equipment usage that I forget to ask last time: On the split between the two versions of the Ermine MBT you use, do you split it by brigade, battalion, company, etc… EX. two of your armored regiments use the Ermine C1, while the third armored regiment and the RHMG use the C2?
Or am I asking a question you haven’t really needed to have thought about before?
Questers wrote:I can't wait to hear.United Earthlings wrote:P.S. Will have an answer to your two questions you asked at the end of the Division Maneuvers section about Black's options, either posted on Friday or Saturday.
Can any decision be made by Black that does not risk a decisive breakthrough, either in the late or early stages of the battle? Can a counter-attack be made that doesn't jeopardize the Division's rear?
Yes, to both.
On the first question: If you accept the premise that no matter what one does, a Questers division is going to achieve a breakthrough somehow or someway and incorporate that definite possibility into your prior operational planning by positioning sufficient blocking mobile {reserve} forces to the rear, space permitting, to check said breakthrough, say, an whole other Armored Division, then said breakthrough is no longer as decisive as it first seems and the fight devolves to the side better able to attain mobility and situation awareness of what the other side is doing. Furthermore, through proper employment of terrain, blocking forces and defensive obstacles such as minefields you can channel where you want said breakthrough to happen in this case right into prepared kill zones and ambushes that will slow, degrade/attrit and eventually stop the breakthrough especially when it runs into opposition along its flanks against forces equal or superior to its strength.
On the second question and continuing with the first: Here's how the Commonwealth would respond and remember as this is a Corps/Army level fight, there is more than one division on the field of battle. For reference: Commonwealth Corps generally deploy with three divisions {1 infantry, 2 armored}, but depending on the operational requirements can be as large as five divisions plus supporting aviation and artillery/missile assets which in of itself can be as large as one of our infantry divisions manpower wise when fully deployed. Questers {you} mass artillery, the Commonwealth {we} mass airpower especially in regards to CAS/BAI as one corps by itself can have an entire air wing supporting it comprised of numerous aircraft types.
No matter how impressive or intimidating a Questers RHMG is, an entire armored division is more impressive/intimidating.
In that regard, Commonwealth Defence Forces would hold the line with Division 1 {Probably Infantry supported by mobile independent Armor Regiment(s)} and permit the RHMG its penetration into the rear area while holding in check through an elastic in-depth defense supported by numerous hedgehog defense fortifications against the various Brigades that constitute the main striking power of a Questers Division, which in our estimate is the far greater threat to the cohesion of a Commonwealth division or corps. The further that RHMG penetrates into the divisional/corps rear area, the more isolated it becomes from its own supporting corps/divisional/brigade assets while at the same time the inverse is happening as the RHMG becomes more exposed itself to the Commonwealth’s own Divisional/Corps assets such as air, artillery and missile fire.
Upon breakthrough of the MLR by the RHMG, the preposition rear area Division 2 {Armored} becomes active and begins its checking motion {counter-attack} supported by both aviation assets assigned to the Corps/Division {helicopter gunships as well as fighters, fighter-bombers, ISTAR, UAVs, bombers & attack aircraft} plus the Armored division's own organic Artillery support and any Corps level artillery/airpower currently not actively D3ing the enemies logistics & C4I capability.
What’s left of the RHMG encounters the forward elements of the three Armored Combat Battle-Groups that are converging on it. The commander of the RHMG now has a choice: A. Press ahead against an enemy of unknown strength and hope for the best that it can fight its way forward to victory. B. Flank said force and hope said force is not the main element. C. Fall back {delaying action}.
Selecting A and B, leaves the RHMG both at a tactical and operational disadvantage that it if presses ahead it exposes it flanks and rear area to engagement by the other two equally powerful armored battle-groups. If it tries to flank, it losses some momentum and runs head-on into another Armored Combat Battle-Group, again setting it up at option A. C will probably permit the RHMG to survive, but probably result in the unit being render combat ineffective by the time it again reaches its own lines depending on how far it was able to advance into the rear area.
Meanwhile, the Commonwealth has decided this is the perfect time to launch a multi-prong Corps offensive north and south of the Corps/divisional fight in the centre. The battle for the centre results in a tactical draw with both sides having resumed their almost if not exact lines prior to the start of the Questerian offensive and finally the enemy {the Commonwealth} has launch its own massive offensive thereby now controlling the initiative for the time being.
Finally, and this is where doctrinal differences come into play with the Commonwealth's preference for smaller, but more numerous divisions mobilized overall as the Commonwealth still holds a full strength Armored Division in reserve in the Centre sectors Corps area which can either be shifted to the Corps north or south of it to act as a new reserve or used to keep pressure on the remaining assets of the Questerian Division in its current area of operations.
War is many things, but one of them is about sacrifice, one can lose the tactical battle and still win at the operational level. The Commonwealth is willing to sacrifice an entire division of personnel and material if that means gaining the larger victory at the operational and strategic level, which is where the war will ultimately be decided.
