Your mission is to raise the capabillities of the 25 local defence-battalions of your (european) country. This to quickly (within two years) raise the overall defence-capabilliy of your armed forces versus an as yet unnamed aggressor.
Currently these battalions are equipped with 7.62mm Small arms, AT-mines and light AT-weapons only. Vehicles are near-scrap trucks and only a platoons-worth of vehicles per battalion. The soldiers are mostly volunteers with 1 company per battalion being conscripts. Commanders are volunteer ReserveOfficers. The men and women train about 10 weekends per year, this could increase to a maximum of 20 weekends per year the following two years. Time to retrain troops are limited because of this, obviously. Soldiers have between 3 and 24 months of basic training and a few have experience from UN-missions or similar, before joining the battalions. Average age is 34.
The army will consider giving the local defence-battalions the following, used, equipment:
129 6x6 Wheeled APCs (of wich 20 are command-versions and 20 Ambulance)
240 81mm mortars (manportable)
270 ATGMs, medium-range
5.56mm small arms (not including Machineguns)
50 Mercedez G-wagens (unarmoured)
Your budget is: 772 million € for acquisition and "special needs"
What do you do?
Currently these battalions are equipped with 7.62mm Small arms, AT-mines and light AT-weapons only. Vehicles are near-scrap trucks and only a platoons-worth of vehicles per battalion. The soldiers are mostly volunteers with 1 company per battalion being conscripts. Commanders are volunteer ReserveOfficers. The men and women train about 10 weekends per year, this could increase to a maximum of 20 weekends per year the following two years. Time to retrain troops are limited because of this, obviously. Soldiers have between 3 and 24 months of basic training and a few have experience from UN-missions or similar, before joining the battalions. Average age is 34.
The army will consider giving the local defence-battalions the following, used, equipment:
129 6x6 Wheeled APCs (of wich 20 are command-versions and 20 Ambulance)
240 81mm mortars (manportable)
270 ATGMs, medium-range
5.56mm small arms (not including Machineguns)
50 Mercedez G-wagens (unarmoured)
Your budget is: 772 million € for acquisition and "special needs"
What do you do?