Yom Kippur - Egyptian Set Up

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The Egyptian plan is quite simple at start: Cross the Canal in force, secure the Israeli VP hexes at the Chinese Farm and Zrakor then wait until the Exploitation Reserve is released before pushing down South.

The initial rush across the Canal is mostly restricted to infantry units since armor and mech require a bridge to reach the West shore and bridges are laid after the Movement and Combat phases; that leaves armor and mech with only the Exploitation phase of the first turn to move across the obstacle.

Another important - and more general - consideration is Egyptian HQ restriction to stay on the East side of the Canal; this could have a significant impact on supply mainly when trying to reach the farthest VP hexes like 23.01 or 50.01

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The main attack will take place around 32.23 with the primary goal of securing an assembly area West of the Canal and then seize the Chinese Farm and Zrakor; the Nozel Bar Lev (32.23) must be destroyed at all costs to enable the crossing while the Purkan Bar Lev (29.24) should be seized in order to ease the supply of forces going after the Chinese Farm.

Fig 1 - North Set Up

On the South front we have a smaller force basically meant to establish a secondary crossing point and to harass the IDF forces coming through the Gidi and Mitla Passes.


Fig 2 - South Set Up

Next figure shows the Egyptian SAM coverage with is pretty good but not so effective due to Israel SAM Suppression rules that allow some Air points to operate within it.

Fig 3 - Egyptian SAM Coverage

Finally a few dispersed units have been located around Israeli VP hexes across the Canal like Suez, Fayid and Port Said but truth is if Egypt is ever forced to defend such places then it has to be already a quite desperate situation.

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