Re: Dirtside campaign

You wrote: 

>The system is based at Task Group/Battalion level.  It uses a system 
of >allocating your forces into 3 sections: Recon, Main Body and Rear 
Guard. >Depending on the scenario, different parts of your force are 
used.  In >between games, you can shuffle a limited amount of your 
force between the >various detachments.

I don't think Dirtside is really appropriate for campaigns because of 
the scale.  Your usual fights are at a short Batallion Task Force size, 
and that's not enough to make that much of a difference overall in the 
war.  I mean, even in tiny wars like Falklands no one batallion would 
have been in all the engagements that determined the course of the war. 
 That was more or less a fight between two divisions (actually, the 
Brits only brought 2/3 of a division), and Dirtside isn't set up for 
that sort of thing.  I might like to see (someday) a larger scale game 
based on Dirtside wherein the figures represent company task forces and 
you command a division or two.

>Oh yes- you cant buy artillery, ortillery etc.  You "buy" fire support 
and >roll on a table to see what shows up- after all no Battalion 
Commander will >have his own aerospace fighters or MLRS battery !  

Why not a MLRS battery?  It's a division-level asset now, likely will 
be regimental/brigade asset by then, which might have it in direct 
support to a schwerpunkt batallion.

Another idea might be Anabasis--remnants of a brigade caught behind 
lines after a disaster.  Lots of REMFs and redlegs, real short on armor 
and infantry.  

John M. Atkinson