Never saw much detail on it myself - the 49th must have done a heck of a lot of damage before it got stopped - if you look at the Mexican Army composition by 2000 they had almost no AFV's left - and the Soviet force took a big hit too - and they would have been pretty well equipped with M60 tanks as they hadnt seen any combat at the time - they didnt get the Stingray tanks till after the losses they took in 1998 not before (US Army Vehicle Guide
Also the 85th must have been pretty badly led - they didnt have any armor with them but they did have some artillery - and the Texian's arent portrayed as having any armor - so to get wiped out that bad by guys armed with small arms only means they must not have had any veterans at all in their officer and Non-com ranks
whats interesting is that Lone Star makes it clear that the furthest north the Mexicans are deployed is Waco, with most of them to the south of that, the Soviets are all the way to the south in San Antonio and not very mobile and the Legion is mostly around Houston and areas east and north of it - so why are the US forces pulled all the way back to Oklahoma?
Most of northern and western Texas seems to not have Mexicans or Soviets in it - so why give up so much of Texas when Lone Star makes it clear that the governor of Texas is at Wichita Falls, still inside the state? Why would the 49th, a Texas National Guard unit, not have at least some troops with him?
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