Montag, 23. März 2009

WP Order of Battle - Ground Units

New informations about the East German Army made me redo my already finished orbat.
A forum post about the polish Army was so exhaustive that I had to include those infos too.
I never thought I'd find so many details about those armies. Unfortunately the same is not true for the CSSR. I'm still stuck with a basic orbat. Still searching.

On the other hand all counter values are finished and the counters could get a "go" if it wasn't for those czech units that seem far too generic now.

Before doing the WP counters I'll finish the orbat for NATO.

Air Defence Network

Much of the past weeks have gone into research of the Air Defence Networks of both NATO and Warsaw Pact.
As there were no rules in the underlying game system covering this matter I had to become very creative. ;-)
I have re-read the rulebooks of some games covering the subject. A very good german book about the "Bundesluftwaffe" gave me worthy informations and most of all the website of www.usarmygermany.com really helped me to get the picture.
Now I know what NADGE, GEADGE, 421L and such stands for. Implementing it into a rule was not such a big thing as I thought of in the beginning. Of course the rule has to be playtested but for now I'm quite happy with it. It's simple yet renders the impact of ground based air defense nicely.
Remains the HAWK and Patriot missile units. I would hate to cluster the map with fixed missile-sites and would hate even more to put more counters on the map. I'm playing with the idea of abstracting that part of the air-war.