NATO Forces in Africa during the Twilight War (v1.0)

[Abbott Shaull]

Yeah, if I remember correctly the unit that GDW had assigned was suppose to deployed to Iceland. Never really brought that the 6th Infantry Division in all out war like that would deployed entirely to Norway. One Brigade to reinforce the 10th Mountain that was sent there too maybe. I would see the Brigade with the Airborne battalion left in Alaska in case the Soviet tried to invade Alaska.

[stilleto69]

In my version of the game I had the 47th ID alerted earlier and deployed to Norway while the 6th ID (L) remained in Alaska, just in case.

[Abbott Shaull]

With how the Army is moving Brigades about to form an Operational Division, I leaning toward a revamp of the the ORBAT for the war. Which would give the back story why the US didn't activate several new Division that one would believe could of activate even if they were largely paper divisions when the nukes started to fall in Nov of 1997. Not only that it give me a reason to make Armor and Mechanized Division more unique than being identical or near identical depending on what Mechanized/Armor/Cavalry Division you were assigned too. Kinda like the WWII light Armored Division...

[HorseSoldier]

GDW built a lot of divisions up out of what were designated as seperate brigades. I don't think there were any units in the 'Guard or USAR that were set up to provide divisional assets beyond what could just be cobbled together from the brigades' MTOEs.

A more likely course of action would be those units staying seperate or attaching over to one division or anothjer, either as needed or semi-permananetly depending on the situation.

[Raellus]

Here's a semi-related question:

After OMEGA, canon has some of the troops evacuated from Europe being sent to Iran, correct? Do you think any of them would get dropped off in Kenya, first? The 173rd would have been going on a couple of years without any significant replacements. They could use some "fresh" manpower.

[HorseSoldier]

The idea certainly seems reasonable to me. I never really bought into the idea the evacuation was just going to dump a bunch of demobilized veterans off in the Virginia area. Plussing up remaining OCONUS forces and the either filling out CONUS units or forming new ones seems likle a much more plausible idea.

[Abbott Shaull]

I think many of the NG and Reserve Brigades would be assigned to a specific rear area Corps and then they rotate to Divisions that are at the front as other Brigades were needed to be replace due the fact they needed rest and reorganization. Much like they have in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan where a Divisional HQ will have one or two of it component Combat Brigades along with support Brigades, and have the other Combat Brigade come from other Divisions, NG, or Reserve units.

Granted that many Divisions that would be created after the start war would be lacking in certain aspect such as Aviation assets. As for other assets, many of these would come from Corps and Army units sent down to make Divisions operational.