[Caliber-10:7] Relief Column
CALIBER 10 SCENARIO PACK – MISSION 7 (of 8)
~10.30 hours, January 1st 1995
Forces of the 131st Brigade (plus elements of the adjacent 81st Regiment), led by Col. Ivan Savin, have been taking cover and defending Grozny’s central rail station against determined separatist attacks since the previous afternoon. They are surrounded, low on ammo, and with dozens of wounded in the basement of the main station building – and cannot hold out for much longer on their own. Two relief columns, one from 131 Brigade’s own rear echelons, and the other from the reserve 276 Brigade, are sent into the city an attempt to break through and relieve the beleaguered troops. Get them to the station before it is overrun by the enemy!
SCENARIO SIZE: Small (1+ hour of play)
CONDITIONS: Cool, Cloudy (Fair) – Significant damage from shelling in city
MISSION: Get relief columns to the rail station, and defend from enemy assault!
NOTE: This mission makes extensive use of custom ‘no-entry’ areas – check your map to see which areas are inaccessible. This is designed to guide both AI and player in order to model the rather unique tactical situation.
The large ‘no-go’ area between the column and the station represents positions of the 81st Regiment’s survivors at the freight yards – radio contact with whom is proving difficult, and so the relief column must keep away from those positions in order to avoid ‘friendly fire’.
SITUATION:
The survivors of 131 Brigade’s main position at the rail station, following their retreat there after the failure of Group North’s assault on downtown the previous day, have now been holding out against persistent separatist attacks – from nearly every direction – for some 20 hours. Col. Savin, 131 Brigade’s commander (callsign ‘Caliber-10’), has dozens of seriously wounded soldiers in the station’s basement, and has by now been wounded twice himself – which hasn’t stopped him from continuing to lead his forces on-site, and personally directing much of the incoming artillery strikes. But his own troops are low on ammo, and Savin is growing increasingly desperate in his calls for relief.
Finally, word comes through that two columns – one from the 131 Brigade’s own rear echelons left behind north of the city (arriving under callsign ‘Leska-12’), and the other from the sister 276 Brigade that was left in reserve (in contact largely via callsign ‘104’) – are inbound to his position, through a city still controlled almost completely by the enemy. Realizing their poor odds, Savin keeps up regular checks with these columns on the radio and tries to guide them towards his positions and around potential danger areas. After 10.00 hours, they are within barely a mile of the station…
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NOTE: Requires the following files to play
Chechnya database mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1903544436
Grozny map: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1903544436
Required items:
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Chechnya: Database Mod (v0.60) — Steam Workshop
Chechnya: Grozny Map — Steam Workshop
