Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20151018170726/@comment-14850713-20151021031941

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Holste grimaces as the casualty reports come in. He has lost 40% (in killed and wounded) of his 2 attacking battalions, and his 3rd (which was involved in the fight the day before) is still not up to strength. He underestimated the firepower and mobility of the new AFOH formation as he has been used to facing SAU light infantry. But his men have accomplished their mission and have taken the 2 DZs. He decides that the brigade cannot pursue at its current state, but in accordance to the plan sent to him, they are to hold and let heavier units (whom he supposes are on the way) pass through. He sets up his HQ in the reverse (eastern) slope of the northern DZ and nervously scans the sky now teeming with AFOH attack aircraft. This will be a slaughter, he mutters to himself.

Soon his radio comes to life. "Gruppe Holste", the voice on the other end starts in a calm and even tone, "Cat litter coming through, and Bats are inbound". A combined arms company in Puma AFVs and led by a platoon of Leopards approaches the southern DZ. As the armored vehicles crash through the underbush, a flight of Addlers screams in to do battle with the AFOH aircraft. This is it, Holste thinks to himself. It most surely is as several tank and AFV guns belch fire all around his 2 DZs, shells arching to Wabag. Then he sees Leopards and Pumas advance steadily, with troops fanned out to the flanks. 2 brigades, the vanguard of the Millennium attempt to break out of the encirclement, are now headed for Wabag and the 1st MEB.