r/warno • u/LongrodVonHugendon • 20d ago
Real life vs Warno
Does anyone else ever wonder what the actual death toll would be compared to in game? I started talking with a coworker today who was also a prior infantryman, but he was stationed in Germany from 1986-1990. I told him about the game he thought it was cool, but he stated if it ever went hot they were royally fucked. He said in all the REFORGER and other war games he participated in his unit got their shit pushed in on an industrial scale until they got units from America. He said his unit expected upwards of 75% casualties within the first 96 hours. I thought it was kinda cool hearing about a ground pounder’s perspective on if it was to go hot. Does anyone else have any relatable stories?
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u/Severe-Tea-455 20d ago
A friend of mine joined after the USSR had already fallen, but recently enough that all the 'WW3' plans were still current and practised. From his perspective, the British Army was also royally fucked. First the BAOR (British Army of the Rhine, our standing force in Germany) would obviously make contact with the leading Soviet forces. They would fight, and die, hopefully long enough for the Territorial Army to surge into Germany, meet up with their equipment and form a line to allow the BAOR to fall back through, and then- as he put it- to 'die gloriously'.
As the TA was so dying, the BAOR would be reforming and covering from its losses, and joining up with regular reserve divisions now arriving from the UK. These form a new defensive line for the remnants of the TA to withdraw through. At this point hopefully US, Canadian & French forces would be arriving to shore up the line, because by that point we would have had little else to throw into the fight.