Scenario: The River Flows Frozen

[Tomas]

Got to finish this one, i was about to scrap it (because it's hard to make it both playable and historical), but here it goes anyways.

The River Flows Frozen
Date: March 15, 1969
Battle Location: Damansky Island, USSR
Battle Type: Soviet assault vs PRC defend

Description: The battle takes on place on Soviet-Chinese border, Primorsky Krai. After several smaller clashes over the disputed Damansky Island, Soviet Union decides to retake the island once for all. Several elements of the 135th Motorised Division arrive near the vicinity of the island that is now controlled by the PRC troops and prepare to assault the island.

The battle saw first use of BM-21 Grad MLRS as well as then secret T-62.

After devastating bombardment causing massive casualties on the PRC side, Soviet troops recaptured the island with minimal losses.

Notes: If played against the AI the human player should take the Soviet side.

Sources: D. S. Ryabushkin, The Damansky Myths, Moscow 2004.

Tried to keep the units ratio (can't do multiple thousand chinese army in SPMBT) and TOE realistic. This one might be too easy for Soviets (and it was devastating victory historically).

Map is based on old soviet topographic map, because the map vegetation has changed quite a bit in last forty years.

It might not be very suitable for PBEM, as there will be massive overload penalty for the Soviet player, but ..

Any coments, results and so on are welcome.


EDIT: Final version 2 is attached.

Changes:
- Vastly reworked OOB for both sides
- PRC will now get historical reinforcements and try to retake the island (human waves)
- The Grad salvo now goes full (see the scenario notes in briefing)
- The frozen Ussuri river now has some patches of 'clear' land on it, to allow proper tank movement (as it was historically), so it should be possible to operate around the island with BTRs and T-62s without fear of sinking them, if done carefully
- Fixed victory points
- Some other minor stuff


Again, thanks for input to everyone! If played correctly as USSR, it's possible to achieve historical result (even in casualties).