For Red Thunder; play as either side. See Designer's Notes for acknowledgements.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7msd8w0f3jtg2nk/Kumeiky_Revisited.rar/file
For Red Thunder; play as either side. See Designer's Notes for acknowledgements.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7msd8w0f3jtg2nk/Kumeiky_Revisited.rar/file
Suvorov, as I have pointed out, is not a credible source. With regard to Chieftain, if we subtract the 66 prototype/development tanks issued in 1962 we end up with a figure of 230 in service. According to the UK's own vehicle database, 107 of those were issued in 1964, 86 in 1967 and 37 in 1968. According to a UK Defence Parliamentary debate in 1967 - the 11th Hussars in BAOR had reequipped with Chieftain that year with 17/21 Lancers due to be the next regiment in BAOR to receive it. It is also reported that a significant slice of the 107 issued in 1964 went to training regiments in Bovington and Catterick. So, at best three BAOR Regiments, which in US parlance = three battalions, could conceivably have been Chieftain-equipped by the Czechoslovakia Invasion of 1968 with the third probably having just received Chieftain and thus in the process of working up to a full operational capability in that year. For clarity, the UK Staff Officer's Handbook for 1968 has the tank strength of an armoured regiment as 51 tanks. I doubt very much; therefore, that Chieftain movements featured highly in the Carpathian Military District's collection deck, which as I have already pointed out, would unlikely have had the capability to collect that sort of data in that area. To use tradecraft terminology - 1 (BR) Corps would likely have been, and I'm being generous here, an Area of Intelligence Interest (AII) rather than an Area of Intelligence Responsibility (AOR) for the Carpathian Military District. Now I have no idea what your experience is with collection and collecting in an AII versus an AOR is - my experience is that you focus on your AOR and, if you're lucky, you might have something to cover the AII. In reality - the assets of the organization whose AOR in which 1 (BR) Corps sat (i.e., GSFG) - would provide this information/intelligence. So ... further evidence that Suvorov was a big fat fibber.
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