TheForwardObserver Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 @HerrTom We're two batteries short of all the Division's organic FA. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 11 hours ago, TheForwardObserver said: @HerrTom We're two batteries short of all the Division's organic FA. Is this at all Realistic? A Single Battalion sucking Up that much Divarty? v. a single OpFor Mech Inf Batt ? Im Not Complaining, just Seems A Little. . . Extreme. . . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 13 hours ago, TheForwardObserver said: This one is called "Don't Fire till you see the whites of their eyes..." This Was Well Played. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 (edited) @kinophile The question you should be asking is whether it's real at all. 7 Batteries of Paladins firing in support of a single maneuver battalion is unusual to say the least. Edited November 20, 2016 by TheForwardObserver 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 The new TFO doesn't write effort posts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrTom Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 2 hours ago, TheForwardObserver said: The question you should be asking is whether it's real at all. I came to this thread for artillery and glorious smack talk, and now I get some philosophy too? I think things just got real. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 2 hours ago, TheForwardObserver said: @kinophile The question you should be asking is whether it's real at all. 7 Batteries of Paladins firing in support of a single maneuver battalion is unusual to say the least. Hey now, the break through to Bastogne was like three battalions of artillery firing in support of what was basically a improvised combined arms battalion. But yeah little weird. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 In the end the commander gets what the commander needs. A division going into action will have their organic FA btlns/mortars and an attached 1-5 btlns of 155/HIMARS/MLRS. Depending on who is doing what, anything's possible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 9 hours ago, TheForwardObserver said: In the end the commander gets what the commander needs. A division going into action will have their organic FA btlns/mortars and an attached 1-5 btlns of 155/HIMARS/MLRS. Depending on who is doing what, anything's possible. Totally. Like the Bastogne comment, if Division decided you were the decisive operation, then congrats, welcome to steel rain town. . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Fair Point. My Batt is Definitely a weak link. . . . . Or is it?? ? ? ? ? ? dunh-dunh, DUUUUUUNNNNNHHHHH! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 1 hour ago, kinophile said: dunh-dunh, DUUUUUUNNNNNHHHHH! Q: What's brown and sounds like a bell? A: Dung! (And thank you Monty Python.) Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 15 minutes in, 1 hour and 45 minutes left. All initial reconnaissance objectives have been met. Blue Casualties are at 7 personnel, 0 vics. 2 from indirect fire, 5 from direct fire. We've taken approximately 235 rounds of enemy artillery and mortars, and have identified the positions of 14 enemy vehicles, as well as accompanying infantry. Red casualties are estimated at 7 vics destroyed and 25 casualties. We are now entering operational phase Arnhem auslöschen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 Correction-- 9 enemy vehicles destroyed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 (edited) TheForwardObserver, 235 rounds of artillery fire? In 15 minutes? Holy Toledo, Cincinnati and Akron! With that volume of incoming artillery and mortar fire, I'm surprised you have a force left. For perspective, at the Battle of An Loc, during the Vietnam War, during the siege there the minimum NVA artillery fire/day was 1000 rounds. You're talking a quarter of that in 15 minutes. For a more typical volume of fire, 2000 rounds/day, it's still an eighth!http://www.thebattleofkontum.com/stars/363.html (Fair Use) "Hanoi's 5th Division thereupon moved up. The 5th's commander had boastfully promised to take An Loc in three day's time. He tried hard between May 10 and May 15. After that the 5th North Vietnamese Division had also been expanded. It, too, had to be pulled back. That leaves only one point to cover. The miserable little unfortified town has an area of perhaps three square kilometers. Even when there was no ground assaults, the enemy artillery continued -each day never less than 1,000 rounds; in normal times, generally about 2,000 rounds; and when an assault was coming 7 to 8,000 rounds." Regards, John Kettler Edited November 22, 2016 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 Rgr that John. Saber Xray this Saber 16, we are Oscar Mike en route to phase line Minnehaha, over. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 An Abrams platoon halts its advance to investigate suspicious activity along the riverbank. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Gunner HEAT sauropod! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 TheForwardObserver, Absolutely hilarious, but are they fitted with BLUFOR Trackers? They are BLUFOR, right? (radio crackles, unless it doesn't these days) "Saber 16. In the event a T-rex shows up your are Weapons Free. Repeat. Weapons Free." "Saber Xray out." panzersaurkrautwerfer, Shouldn't the ammo be MPAT? Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 4 hours ago, TheForwardObserver said: An Abrams platoon halts its advance to investigate suspicious activity along the riverbank. Wow, a whole herd of FO's in the wild! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 15 minutes ago, John Kettler said: panzersaurkrautwerfer, Shouldn't the ammo be MPAT? Regards, John Kettler We didn't fire MPATs during training until right before I left active duty so I tend to default to HEAT when selecting non-tank type targets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 panzersaurkrautwerfer, Understood. Appreciate explanation. Also apologize because I wrote the wrong round. Should've written AMP. Quite good discussion of its capabilities, tactical leverage and logistical impact here. Yet again I shudder at how tremendously innovative we humans are when it comes to weapons. https://www.army.mil/article/98946/Army_developing_new_120mm_AMP_tank_round Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 The collective noun for a group of grazing free range American FISTERs is a Det. A Rookery of Albatross, Herd of Bison, Bloat of Hippos, Det of FISTERs (FOs). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Fisters? Really, you guys allowed anyone to call you fisters? Sounds like some grunt is pranking you. What do you call the second group of fisters to show up? MoFOs? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 2 minutes ago, sburke said: Fisters? Really, you guys allowed anyone to call you fisters? Sounds like some grunt is pranking you. What do you call the second group of fisters to show up? MoFOs? Late. . . . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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