I mean, the good shit, but yes. Cobbled-together gear, as best as you can. Their, "tanks," make their operators want to shriek in fury.
So to reiterate to everyone, so while we can adapt technicals to IFV tactics, we still doing the equivalent of a mad dash to a FO,fortifying it to wait for a counter attack, then moving out again . For 3 nights .
Your troops just started hitting the I'm tired phase, because without IFV and combat engineer vehicles, you digging in by hand.
Ideally, modern mech forces avoid this by fortifying up to level one only, so, foxholes, some OPs, some bagged positions to protect your heavy gear like ammo. One of the advantages of mech infantry is that the IFV does a lot of this. You need to position your weapons in defence, move your Bradley. Ammo is stored on the vehicles and already protected by armour, ditto to signals, water. But a motorized force? Well, they vulnerable to artillery so you need to provide some cover and protection, so even without the barbed wire protection of a FO, you need sandbags to protect your stuff.
Given that we were digging in to defend against a counterattack, we probably working our way up to level 2 fortifications , so we not just leaving range cards but some prepared positions to follow on forces such as the Tolederons.
Mech forces preserve troops stamina a lot but well, we starting to go into the BRO is tired territory.
That said. My vote is
[X] Something isn't right here. Push across the river and into Buffalo before reestablishing defensive lines. Maybe that will bait out the response for which you've been looking -- and you won't exactly complain about the opportunity to deny Victoria the rail infrastructure within the city.
So I haven't read victoria, but don't they have some weird ass military doctrine? Would them retreating and allowing us to advance fit in that doctrine, or be very opposite that doctrine?
Yes. Their first victory against US forces , the Numero Division, aka 1st was won by allowing them to advance, run out of supplies and get entrapped by light infantry and technicals.
The PROBLEM is that while this might sound believable back in 90s, Iraq showed that a persistant attack the like wielded is possible to be tracked by air and destroyed with superior firepower. Afghanistan complicates it by making it very difficult to deliver said firepower, combined with truly well trained and drilled RPG tank Hunter teams.
