Action in the Obergurgle Gap!

[Harry Faversham]

High above the valley sits the Schloss Von Obergurgle, a grim imposing fortress, built by the Teutonic Knights of old. During WW2 the Castle had been a top secret Nazi research establishment, dedicated to dark and perverted science.
By 1982 it was a deserted ruin looking down on the Obergurgle Gap. Once more conflict was coming to the valley. The Cold War's gone hot, with the Warsaw Pact determined to conquer West Germany. Colonel Akin Lysenko's columns are racing through the Obergurgle Gap. Facing them is a scratch unit of BAOR's elite Faverforce, dug in in well prepared ambush positions.


 

[CapnJim]

Looks (edit: grant grand).  As usual for your stuff.  Now we just wait to see who comes out on top...

[Harry Faversham]

Thank you Cap'n.
 

[Kourtchatovium104]

Nice! I'm glad to see minis in "Cold war hot" interesting scenarii. 

[Harry Faversham]

A Milan anti tank missile started the ball spectacularly!
Blasting the lead T72 into scrap. A low flying Harrier joined in next, straddling the Red column with cluster bombs. Faverforce's motorised infantry swung into action as the stalled Soviet column tries desperately to deploy. Faverforce are causing very heavy casualties on the enemy, till a second T72 looms out of the smoke on A Company's flank. Point blank tank fire decimated the British troops on the hill. It's the high point of the Red offensive the BAOR's ant tank weaponry reduce the column to brewed up wrecks. The dazed survivors of the Soviet assault routed back the way they came.
"Well done chaps,"
Lt. Col. Faversham tells his orders group.
"At dawn tomorrow we'll be going down that road to take the bridge at Obergurgle. Good news is, armour will move up in the night. Right, carry on!"
 

[CapnJim]

My God, man.  Oh, the humanity!   

Seriously, folks, well done, lads.  That's a bunch of burning wrecks...

[Harry Faversham]

It's not all sunshine and roses. Wait till Flash Harry finds out his armoured support's from the Jerry's Panzers!!!
 

[CapnJim]

Oh, they'll be fine.  The Panzer fella I talked to in the mid-80s seemed to know their business.

By the way, I don't know what the lads in the BAOR called the Bundeswehr boys then, but we in USAREUR no longer referred to them by WW2 colloquial terms.  We called them "Fritz's".  That still might not meet with the LAF mod's approval, though... 

[Kourtchatovium104]

Interesting report! It's funny that the word "Fritz" was used in the 1980s because it was a French pejorative word for Germans during the WW2! 

[CapnJim]

In the early '80s, when I was in the Army National Guard, we had a Staff Sergeant who had been in the French resistance in WW2.  When we were at out 2 weeks' annual training one year, we had Bundeswehr officers and senior NCOs trooping our positions.  After they went by, he referred to them as "f***in' boche"....

[Harry Faversham]

Don't know wot they'll do to the enemy, but they certainly scare the 'ell out of me!
 

[Cypher226]

Oh, they'll be fine.  The Panzer fella I talked to in the mid-80s seemed to know their business.

By the way, I don't know what the lads in the BAOR called the Bundeswehr boys then, but we in USAREUR no longer referred to them by WW2 colloquial terms.  We called them "Fritz's".  That still might not meet with the LAF mod's approval, though... 

My wife tells a story from when she was a very small child living in Germany (early 80's, dad was in the then Pay Corps, later Royal Logistics Corps), being out at a German supermarket with mum and being hurriedly rushed out when - frustrated with the crowd blocking an aisle -  she rather loudly said 'what are all these blockheads doing here?'   

Obvioulsy my wife no longer condones such stereotypes or language 

[Khusru2]

Rolling down highways in column. The Russians haven't advanced in tactics much

[CapnJim]

A 2A4 in 1982?     Wow, must be a test unit for the Bundeswehr...

A Leopard 2A4 should do OK against the Soviet columns....

[carlos marighela]

My wife tells a story from when she was a very small child living in Germany (early 80's, dad was in the then Pay Corps, later Royal Logistics Corps), being out at a German supermarket with mum and being hurriedly rushed out when - frustrated with the crowd blocking an aisle -  she rather loudly said 'what are all these blockheads doing here?'   

Obvioulsy my wife no longer condones such stereotypes or language 

Clearly a reference to Ian Dury. ' Cornflake jackets, catalogue trousers, a mouth that never closes'. I'd be quite surprised too if I was in German supermarket and it was filled with people from around Romford and Chadwell Heath.

I like the rather eclectic, come as you are, selection of kit. Clearly the war has been running for a while and the reserves have been sent to the front.