OGRE Batrep #15 - OPA! The Central Americans are here!

Off the coast of a Greek isle named Aigina, an Armored Group belonging to the North American Combine (Central America) disembarks onto Greek soil. The objective: A temple complex to the godess Aphaea. Only El Guapo knows why...

El Guapo Groupo 1 - North American Combine Central American  [EGG1-NACCA] goes feet dry on Greek soil for the first time in history, to take a Greek Temple Complex.

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"Dimitris, why all the boats come here?"

"I do not know, woman! Why you ask me silly question?  

"Why you not know anything, silly man? All the time, I ask question, you no have answer! They have machines - look!"

"Ooof! Woman! Run to Athenios house and use phone. Call the magistrate!"

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Strategic Map:

Scenario - Three objective zones on the map with one 10 point objective in the middle temple complex and (2) 3-point objectives to the Northwest and Southeastern sides of the battlefield. 

Forces involved: 300 Points of Greek Defense Forces  vs. 300 points of NAC Central American forces. Forces deploy off of the table edge, with the NACCA Forces deploying first.

Objective - Meeting Engagement. Objectives on the map provide points every turn if a player has a unit wholly within that zone and is not contested. There are (2) 3-point areas, and (1) 10 point areas. If one side takes the central temple objective for more than 10 consecutive turns, the battle is won. VPs are also awarded for units destroyed.

Strategic Map 2:

Tactical Map:

El Guapo Groupo-1 would come from the South. The Greek defenders set up a Tactical Assembly Area just Northeast of the Temple of Aphaia.

Greek Defense Forces [GDF] GEVs take the 3-point objective in the Northwestern edge of the battlefield.

Initial contact of El Guapo Groupo-1 and the GDF GEV assets skirmish around the temple complex while the bulk of EGG-1 NACCA armor and infantry move into place.

In the distance, a second wave of NACCA GEV moves on the temple while GDF armor maneuvers to meet the Super Heavy Company and infantry.

 The NACCA GEV Squadrons 3 and 4 move up to join the fray.

On the Western flank, an Armor Battalion rolls on the 3-point objective held by a single squadron of GDF GEV's - they would delay but not hold here.

On the eastern flank of the temple, GDF armor commander decides to roll southeast and take out the remaining NACCA GEV and deal with the few tanks and the infantry.

NACCA armor assault grinds into the fierce defenses of the Greeks. In the distance, the heavy infantry leave the city to unleash missile fire on the GDF armor engaging NACCA  GEV squadrons 2 and 3.

The GDF armor engages EGG-1 NACCA GEV squadrons 2 and 3

GDF Armor neutralizes EGG-1 GEV squadrons 2 and 3 to the southeast.

El Guapo Groupo-1 heavy infantry deploy into the city to pick their shots.

EGG-1 heavy infantry jump the GDF armor with missiles. Most shots would fail to hit.

The GDF commander turns his armor on the EGG-1 heavy infantry. They would not have time to reload from the hover truck before being wiped.

The Temple Complex cleared and uncontested, and all EGG-1 NACCA threats eliminated elsewhere on the field, the GDF commander moves northwest to meet the last attackers.

1 LGEV remained on the southeast 3 point objective and 1 heavy tank remained on the northwest 3 point objective. The last El Guapo Tank Company would be wiped by the GDF Super Heavies.

In the end, El Guapo Groupo-1 North American Combine Central American was wiped out by the Greek Defenders. Attempts by the Greek Government to contact NAC were unsuccessful, so the mystery behind the attack on the Temple Complex of Aphaea on the Greek Isle of AIGina may never be discerned. 

Greek Defense Force: TOTAL VICTORY!

Until next time, fellow OGREnauts!

OGRE Batrep #13: "Hold them by the nose and kick them in the ass!"

 United States Forces - North American Combine  European Command [USNAC EUROCOM] 

13:33:77 zulu somewhere northwest of Dresden, Germany.

"XO!" The Commander EUROCOM United States Forces looked at the Intelligence briefing sitting on the makeshift table in his field quarters.

The  USNAC EUROCOM Executive Officer appeared over his shoulder. "Yes, sir."

"Fucking don't sneak up on me like that! How many times have I told you that??" The XO started his standard reply but was cut off by the standard response.

"At ease! The Commander stood up and started pacing. "The Russians are fucking around in my newly designated Area of Operations, and we need to put an end to it. They have armor assets as well as OGRE support running roughshod through Central Germany and they have Chechnyan units joining them. What the fuck is a Chechnya anyway?"

"Yes, sir. SigInt verified the force makeup this morning, and Chech-"

"Well, I have a plan." He sat back down at the crate-table and pointed to an area just west of their current position. "We have the Speedshot GEV Battalion and the Scattershot Armored Battalion both ready to move right now, correct?"

"Yes sir." 

"Good. Give the order to be ready to move in 3 hours. They probably know we're here at this point."

"Yes sir. What orders should I give the Company Commanders regarding the battle plan?"

The Commander EUROCOM United States Forces didn't look up from his map. " Tell them we're going to hold the Russians by the nose and kick them in the ass! Post haste!"

Elements of Speedshot would feint down the left flank to hold the Chechnyan forces in check while Scattershot supported by a Company of GEV's would assault the bulk of the Russian armor on the right. The OGRE MKII was too far south to be of any significance if they moved fast.

Strategic Map:

Scenario - Four objective zones on the map with one 10 point objective in each players' deployment zone - these generate no Victory Points for the player who owns that objective. The players' must take their opponents 10 point objective to score those points. There are two 5 point objectives in the middle of the map on each side. 

Forces involved: 150 Points of Soviet Federated States supported by 150 points of Chechnyan forces vs. 300 points of US EUROCOM forces. Forces deploy off of the table edge, with the USNAC EUROCOM Forces deploying first.

Objective - Occupation and Defend. Objectives on the map provide points every turn if a player has a unit wholly within that zone and is not contested. There are (2) 5-point areas, and (2) 10 point areas. The 10 point objectives are inside each players' deployment zone and the owning player scores no points for that objective. Victory Points are awarded at the end of each players' turn if the objective is not contested. VPs are also awarded for units destroyed.

Tactical Map:

Russian and Chechnyan deployments and first contact

Chechnyan GEV and Super Heavy assets move up to engage

 The NAC EUROCOM feint would be blunted here, and the Chechnyans would hold this objective for the remainder of the fight

On the other flank, the Russians would try to halt the armored spearhead

Tactical Situation:

Bravo Company would not advance as the CO did not receive orders in time...

American EUROCOM assaults the Russian armor and takes the other 5-point objective

The engagement takes shape

Maneuver and initial shots - The Russian units are caught without support and unable to reach the objective

Bravo Company [Компания "Браво"] could not weather the fusillade of the American gunners and gets wiped trying to contest the objective

The lone Russian heavy tank would exact revenge with a well placed shot into the super heavy and contest the objective for one turn. It would not be enough.

On the other flank, the NAC GEV Company was wiped out and the Chechnyan armor and GEVs moved to harass  the NAC home objective but were pushed back

The final SatInt images of the day. In the end, neither home objective was taken and the Russian OGRE MKII made a command decision to beat feet!

"XO!"

"Yes, sir!" 

The Commander EUROCOM United States Forces relit his Havana and sat back in the LGEV he had commandeered during the fight. "Get me PAN-EUROCOM on the line. We don't need anymore of this bullshit in our backyard!" He unfolded his bulky frame from out of the vehicle and stretched. "How the fuck did they get a Mark Two in here without us knowing it?"

The Executive Officer started to reply, "Signal Inte -."

"At ease! We need to hunt that thing down and kill it. Along with the rest of them. Get me PAN-EUROCOM on the line!"

"Yes sir!"

FINAL SCORE:

USNAC EUROCOM: 264 points.

Russian/Chechnyan: 233 points.

Marginal USNAC EUROCOM Victory!

OGRE Batrep #10: The Descartes Gambit

 OGRE Battle Report [BatRep #10]

+++This scenario is third-hand information stolen by the Belarussian SigInt battalion through satellite communications which were not encrypted.+++

The Descartes Gambit

Inside the hardened bowels of the Denver International Airports'  Deep Underground Military Base, server blades powered on and began wargaming a very specific scenario. One that was programmed 5 years earlier and contingent upon certain fail-safes. Fail-Safes put in place by the North American Combine AI network in tandem with a high level Federal Agency: The IRS.

This was the Descartes AI and it was programmed to become self-aware and operative only if certain conditions were met. 

The Descartes program ran through 3,577,289 scenarios in just under 3.73 seconds. It analyzed the results in another 27 seconds and some change and made its' decision. It reached out to an IRS agent program hibernating somewhere in the Black Sea and brought it to life. It issued orders and waited for a response.

The Eastern European Cooperative [An upstart coalition of Ukrainian, Latvian, a smattering of Romanians and a few Serbian territories] had borrowed a rather large sum of credits from the NA Combine with only the promise to pay back the Federal Taxes at interest over a 5 year period. A simple contract. One the EEC failed to complete.

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Somewhere at the bottom of the Black Sea a Mark V OGRE rumbled to life, sent an affirmation of orders to the Descartes AI and began making way for the Port of Odes[s]a in the Ukrainian Territories. It would rendezvous with a small escort battalion of heavy armor already being transported into the Area of Operations and move north into the province of Novo-Stara. The OGRE was designated [Bones] and was an agent of the NA Combines' IRS Federal Seizure assets.

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Having completed the routines as instructed, the Descartes program powered down: Bones and its' escorts were enroute to the objective area. The chances of success were estimated to be 88.76102 percent if the chosen configuration of forces was correct.

Scenario - Meeting Engagement

Forces involved: 300 Points of NA Combine vs. 300 points of Eastern European Cooperative Forces

Objective - No Objectives defined. Kill Points only.  Forces will deploy inside deployment zones.

The Strategic Map:

The Tactical Map:

+++These are unedited and unformatted pictures from stolen satellite data. Most information gathered can be assumed to be speculative at best.+++

This is the widest angle photo available among the drone and/or sat images captured from the NA Combine IRS uplinks.

The Mark V IRS Agent Bones arrives with Super-Heavy escorts

The 'asset seizure program' commences north of the port city of Odes[s]a, Ukraine Territories.

The IRS heavy escort for the OGRE MK V

This view from the north shows initial disposition of forces with the ECC units in the foreground and TF Eagle to the left top and the IRS units in the top right.

The Ground Effect Units met in the lake in the middle of the map before the armor could negotiate the crowded terrain.

The ECC GEV forces picket the TF Eagle GEVs out on the lake while their armor assets closed with the MK V.

In a close-up of the above photo, Intelligence shows the IRS assets in green supported by a Task Force of NA Combine regulars designated as TF Eagle. The blue, gold, and black assets are ECC forces from the Ukraine, Latvia, Romania and Serbia.

The two forces met in between Novo and Stara Territories north of Odes[s]a.

The blue and gold ECC forces take the fight to the NAC IRS OGRE and escorts just outside of the Novo territory, Ukraine.

Approximately 7km from the MK V, TF Eagle and what looked to have been a secondary detachment from the ECC met in the woods in around the town of Novo.

From initial intel, this battle appears to have been won by the ECC forces.

ECC forces disposition at the beginning phase of the battle of Novo:

ECC forces disposition at the end of the battle of Novo:

'Agent Bones' rolls up on the ECC remaining forces and lets loose with missiles, mains and secondary batteries scoring multiple X and XX hits on the ECC

After the MK V collected its' taxes in arrears the remaining ECC units capitulated to it:

Not much of the ECC force was left to seize. 

SigInt believes the remaining ECC forces were seized as partial payment due and picked up for transport with the remaining NAC forces minus the OGRE. The Mk V designated 'Bones' made it's way back to the Black Sea. 

FINAL SCORE:

IRS/TF Eagle NAC: 71point margin over the Eastern European Cooperative

CRUSHING IRS Victory!