Iranian attack on Basra, 1980

 The Iranians attacked Saddams troops on the outskirts of Basra. An Iranian M60 battalion with Basji attacked the forward Iraqi trenches.

The Iraqis had a single T-62 squadron with a VCR-HOT squadron and a BTR-60 company in trenches.

The first turn, the Iranians opened fore, and while pinned several tanks, were unable to dig out the infantry.

The Iraqis proceeded to use every Anti-tank weapon from RPGs, Milans and AT-3, in lieu of less tanks, which chewed up the Iranians.

M60s are very easy to take out. The Iraqi losses 2 VCR, 1 RPG team and a T-62, while the Iranians were annihilated.

And I forgot to take pictures.

This game was played on one of the night shifts i had with my coworker Mike who had previously done 40,000 games but was impressed that this game is easier to do. So perhaps next summer I shall do another one with him for WW2.

Iranian M60s

 When I got the starter set, I was able to obtain a small squadron of M60s. I already had a squad of 3, so I now have a full battalion of 5 tanks albeit small but sufficient.

During the winter of 2023, I was able to get an additional set of 5. so 10 is good

I'm in the process of painting them up. Which I have just need to take pictures.

Which  took a while as they were being sent to me in my new postion in Nunavut.

Current to April 2023, the Iranian M60 battalion consists of an HQ squadron and 3 squadrons of 3 tanks each. 

Netherlands 103 Verkennings Eskadron for 4. Divise

 So I've been doing some research on my Dutch force in team Yankee, and I realized that it's smaller than my Canadian forces 

So basically I have a Recce Battalion made up of a Leopard 1 squadron, which is made of turrets mounted in bushes, with a M113 Light Infantry section. 

Unless I draft in my Belgian Leopard 1s it's pretty small. 

Update:

Since I have been given the chance to teach in Nunavut, I will be able to have the chance to rebuild my NATO forces.

As of January 2023 the Dutch now have

1 battery M109 sp guns (2)

Leopard 1 

The Dutch need

Leopard 2 squadron 

The carriers

M113

And recce

So, yeah need to build the whole force 

Kit bit bash with M548

I figured that with the ravages of war and the need for more equipment, many engineers would be taking gear they had and changing it into something different. The Anti-tank bits above could be camoflaged as cargo carriers but could easily have the weapons systems mounted when needed.

Always need more Recce or fire support vehicles. lots of machine guns