Yom Kippur - Egyptian Turn I (Part 1)

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Movement Phase

During this first turn Egyptian movement is basically restricted to Infantry crossing the Canal and Airmobile movement since the bridges are not laid yet and Mech and Armor units can not cross to the other side without them.

Fig 1 - Initial Infantry Crossings

In order to clean up the selected crossing sites Egypt moves Infantry adjacent to 15.17 - 2 brigades - and 32.23 - 4 brigades. Two other crossing at 30.23 and 13.17 are intended to ease establishing eventual supply lines.

Fig 2 - Airmobile Movement

Then Egypt took advantage of its - somehow limited - airmobile capability and transported two brigades close to the Chinese Farm and two Brigades close to 32.23; this last location became critical since the Bar Lev fort there suffered no damage during the Pre-Game Barrage and it blocks the planned crossing point.

The Movement Phase ended with the Egyptian amphibious battalions crossing the Canal close to the Bar Lev fort at 15.17.

Fig 3 - Amphibious Movement

Barrage Phase

Artillery kept softening the Bar Lev forts around the crossing points but it also attacked - support by Air units - the Chinese Farm in preparation for an early advance during the Exploitation Phase.

Fig 4 - South Barrage

The fort at 15.17 - already damaged by the Pre-Game Barrage - got destroyed (10 @ 18 = 1) leaving the South crossing clear of enemy units.

Fig 5 - North Barrages

On the North Egypt got mixed results: the combined barrage of 4 arty brigades only manage to DG 32.23 (4 @ 24) which was disappointing since that particular place was the main crossing point; another barrage at 29.24 got a DG result (5 @ 18) but since the target was already DGed nothing was gained; and finally the truly unexpected... 4 Air Units plus Frog battery completely obliterated the Israeli Static unit defending the Chinese Farm (10 @ 24 = 2)

Even if highly successful this last barrage left a couple of teachings: on one hand Egypt used its four available Air units (20 strength) plus the 12 strength Frog battery for a grand total of 32 but the maximum barrage column is 24 so at least one Air unit could have been used elsewhere; on the other hand the two Commando brigades transported close to the Chinese Farm early during the Movement Phase played a key role by avoiding the 2 column shift penalty for barraging targets with no spotter... without them the result would have been 1 (10 @ 13-17) instead of 2.

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