Tuesday, March 1, 2016

ARMA 3 - Eden 3D Editor

A great update for Arma 3 has come out a few days ago and the centerpiece was a new 3D Editor that makes things very easy for mission creators.

Placing a character, rotating it, giving it a certain height. All at the scenario creator's fingertips in a very well thought interface.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Arma 3 - Special Forces Short on Demo Charges Need Only a Radio - AAR

Running this scenario (a modded version with stuff from SimHQ.com and Red Hammer Studios), I used artillery with guided munition.

A 4 man team advances towards enemy-occupied territory in an undisclosed location of Takistan. This is an archive screenshot from another mission.

Monday, February 8, 2016

Crossing Points - Combat Mission Black Sea AAR, Part3

Continued from this blog entry.

Tanks forward, infantry following. The immense firepower of the Abrams opens up an opportunity for the infantry to gain a foothold in the village.

Crossing Points - Combat Mission Black Sea AAR, Part 2

This is a continuation of this previous blog entry.

After a non-so auspicious start (see initial losses in the first blog entry), the US detachment starts to delivery covering fire for one Bradley IFV that will ford the creek.

Sunday, February 7, 2016

Saving Basra - Steel Armor Blaze of War

December 1985. After years of war, the Iranians are feeling the pinch of social unrest. Determined to finish Saddam Hussein and his Army, chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani made it clear that the only way to finish the war would be an attack on Basra. The first phase of the operation would be crossing the the Shatt al-Arab river, south of Basra (Operation Karbala 4) and to turn the Iraqi defensive positions centered on Basra.

The lead tank of an Iraqi T-62 platoon moves west to be debriefed at the tactical command post.
The Iraqis understood the importance of defeating the Iranian offensive right at the onset of the operation. Iraqi General Maher Rashid led a successful clearing of the Iranian bridgehead. This blog entry shows how that fighting may have looked like from the Iraqi side.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Retaking Mount Hermon (or Some Part of It) - Campaign Series Middle East AAR

Part rescue mission of IDF troops trapped in the outpost system at Mt. Hermon, part tactical re-capture of strategical real estate, this scenario is a great representation of this bloody encounter in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War (1973).

In real life, the briefing of the 317th Parachute Brigade was interrupted and never completed because of a Syrian air raid. This left the battalion and company commanders with just marching orders but not too much information about the enemy and the essence of the mission.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Not so Kurz und Vives (short and lively) - A Postcard from The Seven Years War

My choosing of the sequence to achieve strategic goals ... The King would never approve.

This blog entry is from "The Road to War", a campaign scenario from The Seven Years War. The goals are in the bottom right corner.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Friday, January 22, 2016

Crossing Points - Combat Mission Black Sea AAR, Part 1

Set during a fictional war between the US and Russia in Ukraine, this scenario depicts a US combined arms detachment struggling to control a crossing point near a village.