Turn 1, Action 6 (The rest of Fall, 1992)
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I’m in love without the tears of regret
Open fire 'cause I love it to death
Sky high with a heartache of stone
You’ll never see me 'cause I’m always alone
—Ministry (Performer and Songwriters). “N.W.O.” Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs , by Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker. Sire – Warner Bros. 1992. Single.
Ratko is tired of the stalemate in the North. Given a free hand by the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, the real power broker behind the Bosnian Republika Srpska, he decides to launch Operation Corridor 92, which is this game is represented by this Card, which is the Serb card play:
Ratko puts the Operation in the hands of the 1st Krajina Corps commander, who is this man (and card):
What this means is the Serbs have 4 Operations, but any attack in Posavina Opstina will be +5. They also get 2 of these “Reductions” before the any attacks in Posavina (massive shelling of a population center and using MRLS as well Mobile Rocket Launchers). And the attack, from the 4 Ops card, if successful, will have a +1 to the Advance after combat (aside from the advance they get into the hex). General Simić there gives them another +2 to the attack and another +1 Advance after combat. So what I am trying to do here is guarantee (with a massive shelling and with a +7 to my d10 roll) that they will demolish all the Croat Units in Posavina in one attack (against Bosnaska Brod), and when they do they’ll be able to redeploy a bit. So, three of the Main Card’s Operations are to activate three stacks in Posavina – two adjacent to against Bosnaska Brod and one in Doboi there to move to Devenic to ensure an attack with maximum strength, twenty four Ground Factors.
So first we roll for the reductions against the two best Croat Units, the HV National Units (Units from Croatia, not Bosnian Croat Militias). A 3 and a 6 are rolled reducing them to one step 2-6-4 units. The remaining two step unit is a 3-6-4 Croat Militia Brigade.
For Combat the Croats roll a 6. They have no DRMs for Terrain, and none for the Entrenchments because they are not completed. They have 7 Factors, so this is, per the 6 rolled, x 1. They do a Step of Damage to the Serbs (7 is equal to or more than 6, the Defending value of all the Serb units there and the remainder is discarded), which will be implemented after the attack is resolved. The Serbs roll a freaking 1. Glad I made this a +7 attack with all the cards. That is a net 8. 24 Factors at x 1.5 is 36 Factors. The Croats can absorb only 24. So they are wiped out. Our respective Strategic Wills are +3 (me for destroying 3 of his units) and -3 to him (for losing 3 Units).
Now for the Advance below. Boassanski Brod is taken (+3 for my SW for taking a key space/-3 to the Croats for losing it) and that also means I have complete control over Posavina Opstina (+6 more SW).
Taking Boassanski Brod also means that the Slovenians there (seen as pro-Croat) and any Croats are forced to flee to across the border to escape the wrath of the local Serbs who were under Croat Military control and “held responsible” for the shelling by the Croat Military. As well the VRS goes on a rampage, burning any remaining Slovene and Croat areas to the ground as punishment for “oppressing” the local Serb population. This raises the ire of the International Community again, so the Serbs +1 to to their FA. But not yet at a level where it will impact the VRS Militarily. More sternly worded letters from Paris and London. Ratko uses the extra movement to deploy defensively in the area.
With the other Operation, Ratko will activate a stack in the South and finish the nonsense in Srbrenica. Below is the same end phase Map in that area, but only the northern stack is activated here.
This is just straight up roll for the Serbs with 12 Factors at a -2 for mountains. And for the Boniaks, a -2 for Turn 1 with just 2 factors.
The Serbs roll a 9, -2 a net 7. Which means 12 x 1.5 = 18 factors. The Bosniaks are wiped out.
The Bosniaks roll a 5, -2 a net 3. Which is 2 x 1 = 2 factors. The Serbs take no damage.
Again, the Bosniaks lose 1 SW and the Serbs gain 1 for the Bosniak losses. The Serbs gain +3 SW for capturing the key space of Srbrenica, and the Bosniaks lose 3. This completes the undisputed Republika Srpska control of Semberija Opstina which gives the Serbs an additional 5 SW. Below is the situation in the area post-Attack resolution.
The Serb Division runs wild after taking the City. The Bosniaks have nowhere to go – across the border is Serbia proper. That means refugees are flooding south for Goradze through a gauntlet of the remaining Serb populace, who have been suffering the depredations of the Bosniak paramilitaries and are now “liberated”, and VRS Division. It is estimated that only 33% of the refugees make it to Goradze.
A summit of French, British and German leaders is held in Geneva. It is decided to propose at the UN that a resolution be passed to reimpose fuel sanctions on the Serbs. The Russians and the Chinese veto the resolution in the Security Council. The Nascent-EU imposes the sanctions anyway. However, fuel shipments through Hungary continue in blatant violation of the sanctions and it is also suspected that German companies are now able to make a great profits by evading the sanctions and shipping through there. Perhaps the new year will see brave leadership by the liberal Western powers in ending this conflict.
Final SW and FA levels at turn end:
End Turn 1
A new world order
A new world order
A new world order
A new world order
We’re not about to make that same mistake twice