BTR in Nevada

[Legbreaker]

The more I think about the less likely bulk amounts of Pact vehicles are going to be available.

When you consider that it is standard practise to destory vehicles to deny them to the enemy (if only for the intel value) and I believe it's usually standard to destroy the enemies vehicles captured, particularly in the first months of the war, It's doubtful significant numbers are going to remain in any sort of usable form.

Also, it is highly unlikely that the broad, sweeping encirclements occured as it took litterally MONTHS for the NATO forces to cross Poland. This doesn't bode well for outflanking manouvres, etc but speaks more of head to head engagements.

Originally Posted by Webstral

They will have massive air support operating from nearby friendly air bases. The enemy will be tired from seven weeks of hard fighting. It’s going to be a bad, if brief, period for Reds.

As for the above statement, canon doesn't support it. Going from memory, the Pact air forces virtually destroyed German airpower before anyone else even thought about joining the war. After that may have been different as the US, Britain, etc joined in, but you also had increasing numbers coming across from China.

Large scale encirlements without air superiority are a recipe for disaster. However, this is not to say a vehicle here, a plattoon there wasn't captured intact (or close to it), just that these events are likely to have been few and far between.

Of course move the timeline along 6 months or so and you've got the Pact offensive back towards the west, nuking as they go with Nato apparently falling back in disarray. Now there's a time for massive amounts of captured equipment and personnel. Unfortunately it's the Pact getting the best of it...