A good gym day on the machines yesterday. And we had to make ourselves go. One always feels better having gone.
A great day of writing too. We cranked out that East German scene no problem. Guttentag, East German 9th Panzer Division. We've got the division's CO and the COs of the four principle regiments. Kraut tossers. There's also a few paragraphs describing their routing of a pair of Belgian army divisions.
We're also going to do an introductory 'shootaround' where one sees the status of the Belgian army, the Danish army etc etc...through their commanding general giving a sitrep to SAUCER.
Today we're doing our southern National Guard ACR. Resolved, we're making them up. Introducing the 211th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Carolinas), the Renegade Rebels. Plot: the HHT's jet got shot down and they pull a new CO from the 2nd Armored Division who survived the Battle of Bremen. Meet Major DeWayne Dawson, Chicago Illinois, Northwestern, class of 1974. You people know where this is headed. 'Excuse me sir, look at my neck. You see any red?'
We caught some Ben Shapiro yesterday. He took some time to really slam our own governor, Phil Murphy. We've said for a year that Murphy has done ok. Are we wrong? Is this a case of Helsinki Syndrome, as in Helsinki, Sweden? Maybe we just need to reread Terrorist-Hostage/Hostage-Terrorist: A Study in Duality.*
It's primary day here in New Jersey. We think we'll get out to vote. If so, we'll vote for Hirsch Singh, even though the other guy, whose name we're not going to look up to spell, something Italian with a C, is sure to win. Meh. We'd vote for Murphy before the Italian C guy. GOP ennui thy name is Will.
*You better get that reference.
I do NOT want to be that guy, so please don't take this the wrong way. Just some stuff to think about. I Belgian Corps was composed of *exactly* two divisions of three brigades - so if the 9th Panzer Division routed two Belgian Divisions then they effectively slaughtered the entire Belgian Army in a single engagement.
ReplyDelete- Another thing to think about, in Nederlandse, there's a group of Belgian Logistics guys that handed off a load of ammo and medical supplies to the Dutch Troops because (if memory serves) one of them said "What Belgian Army ?" and a Belgian fighter pilot made mention that basically the entire Belgian Army had been put out of action. But two (or three) Brigades being hammered would still give the Belgians 50% losses (with enough to aid the West Germans in the drive on Berlin in the later books that was already written)
Don't over think the commander thing by the 90s the military even the guard is though professional group we wouldn't care who the commander is as long as they were a good commander now after the fighting yes there would be some good nature ribbing and horse play about the commander being black or a Yankee but once the fighting starts we will all be on the same side
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