Thursday, June 25, 2020

Battle of the Roki Tunnel


There's the Roki Valley looking north. The tunnel is in the background, left. We've written most of the battle and learned to our chagrin that our mental image of the battlefield was substantially wrong.

Here's our up to date description of the valley:
The Tunnel opened up into the Roki Valley. The valley was about a kilometer wide, with unpassable slopes on the west and climbable slopes in the east. The ground was flat at the entrance and slopped gently downwards to the town of Nova Roki about two kilometers to the south. The road to town ran along the steep west slope and bent behind the mountain about a kilometer from the entrance. The bend was a was a natural defensive position and it was here that Captain Erasdze made his command post. From there the road led to the tunnel entrance and the ground sloped gently away to the east. An obvious helicopter landing field lay a few hundred kilometers east of the tunnel in a dry river bed.
So we' place a roadblock in front of the tunnel, the CP on that point in the road middle, far left, and a ton of positions on the east end of the valley.
The Soviets will be trying to push through the tunnel while landing troops in the riverbed on the east side of the valley. 

Fixing what we've written won't be to hard. Probably take about a day.

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