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Tactical Decision Game #99-11, "Attack on Rocky Run Hollow," was described in detail in MCG, Nov99. In that scenario, you command an infantry battalion. Your enemy is elements of the Quantico Liberation Front (QLF), a tough and effective guerrilla force that tends to operate in small units, relying on ambush and hit-and-run tactics. Faced with a superior enemy, QLF forces will usually withdraw quickly. QLF forces will stand and fight only occasionally, when to their advantage, and have shown themselves capable of mounting operations up to battalion size, with up to 8-10 light tanks in support. The largest stream, Rocky Run, is never more than 3 feet deep; the others are intermittent and pose no obstacle to infantry. The only road in your area is Highway 6 (Hwy 6), a one-lane dirt road. Vehicles are mostly limited to the road and trails.
Regiment has decided to try to seize the initiative and bring the QLF to battle with a pair of simultaneous, predawn surprise attacks. Your battalion will locate and attack a possible enemy regimental supply depot in Rocky Run Hollow west of Hwy 6. The regimental commander makes it clear that the true objective is to force the QLF to fight, and the idea is to do that by threatening his logistics. Meanwhile, some 15 kilometers east, 2d Battalion (2d Bn) will launch a helicopterborne raid on Triangletown, a suspected QLF assembly area.
Your antiarmor assets are organized into "Whiskey" Company (Co), consisting of M2 heavy machineguns, Mk19 automatic grenade launchers, and TOWs mounted on HMMWVs and organized into four platoons of four vehicles each. Alpha Co will swing around to block the western flank near Hill 86. Whiskey will advance north on Hwy 6 to block from the east. Bravo Co will advance directly north on the suspected logistics (log) site in order to fix the enemy or flush him toward Alpha or Whiskey. Charlie Co will be in reserve, ready to exploit the situation.
Alpha reaches its attack position at 0300 without making contact. Whiskey reaches Homestead 1. Bravo advances quickly in the face of sporadic harassment, but reaches its attack position overlooking the suspected log site. From the regimental tactical net, you can tell things are not going nearly so well...