55K tanks through the Fulda, I war gamed it in C&GS, I got from Fulda to Franfurt (FRG) with 80% of my command. I was the Russian Commander, the Ami’s were 3 West Point grads. Ya gotta be careful with those secondary roads, if they are wide enough for a tank. I was the sneaky Pete who flanked their main force which was waiting on the Autobahn. I coulda been a Hero of the Soviet Union. I have 3 nephews who graduated from west Point, I told them they should have gone to OCS like I did, if I could out flank them as a Signal Officer. BTW, I turned a war movie off last night that I was watching on You tube. It was called battle of the bulge. It wasn’t the Henry Fonda one, it was a newer one. When the jeep pulled off the road and the RO went to call the BN, he was cranking a EE-8 on the back of the jeep. That was enough for me to turn it off. He couldn’t raise anyone? Duuuuuh!! He had an RL 29 in the back. How does a EE-8 without another EE-8 and a Switchboard work with no wire contact? It was a EE-8 Radio? The old EE-8 was still around in the early 60’s but was replaced with a better model, the TA 312, but you still needed a wire for it to call Bn. LOL!!!. Hollywood, ya gotta love it.
Yea, I remember the EE-8. I humped a PRC-25 as the Duty Sniper-Check. Funny how in a firefight, no one wants to get near you!
“Was it something I said?”
“Has my underarm deodorant failed me?”
After you managed to get 80% of your command to Frankfort, did the Ami ‘commanders’ buy you a cold one at the O-Club?
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IIRC, inflexibility was one of the criticisms of both the German and Soviet armies. That and the unacceptability of mid and lower level leaders making ad hoc decisions in the fog of war.
Nice job in your war game!