Falklands War Campaign - Battle of Mount Tumbledown

DATE: 24/10/2024
TIME (GMT): 18:00
ERA: Cold War
MAP(S): Falklands
TYPE: COOP
GAME: Arma 3
EVENT: Official
AUTHOR(S): Sclembi for Brothers in Arms
SLOTS: 62 / 75

MEDICAL LEVEL: Advanced
MEDICS SETTINGS: Advanced
PREVENT INSTANT DEATH: Yes
LIVES: 3
DAMAGE RESISTANCE: 3
RESPAWN WAY: Respawn on Team
ENEMY DIFFICULTY: Hard
RATING:

The Battle of Mount Tumbledown was an engagement during the Falklands War. The engagement was an attack by the British Army and the Royal Marines on the heights overlooking Stanley, the Falkland Islands capital. Mount Tumbledown, Mount William and Sapper Hill lie west of the capital. Due to their proximity to the capital, they were of strategic importance during the 1982 War.

The attacking British forces consisted of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards (2SG), mortar detachments from 42 Commando, Royal Marines and the 1st Battalion, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles (1/7 GR), as well as support from a troop of the Blues and Royals equipped with two Scorpion and two Scimitar armoured vehicles.

At 9 p.m., half an hour after the start of the diversionary attack, Major Iain Dalzel-Job's G Company started its advance of nearly two miles. Reaching its objective undetected, the company found the western end of the mountain undefended and occupied it easily, but later came under heavy shellfire.
The Argentinians, later learned to be of company strength, directed mortar, grenade, machine gun and small arms fire from very close range at the British company.

For four or five hours, a mixed bag of Marine/Army defenders representing six platoons of Argentinian infantry, engineers and one platoon of mortar men on Tumbledown pinned the British down. To help identify the bunkers, the Guardsmen fired flares at the summit. The Guardsmen traded 66 mm rockets and 84 mm anti-tank rounds with the Argentinians, who were armed with anti-tank rifle grenades and protected in their rock bunkers.

The 2nd Battalion Scots Guards had lost eight dead and 43 wounded. According to Sergeant Thomas MacGuinnes from 13 Platoon, who had been instrumental in rolling up the Argentine defences, another 20 or 30 Guardsmen from Left Flank Company lay motionless, suffering from concussion caused by Argentine artillery, mortar and rifle-grenades or after taking a bad fall among the wet rocks in the middle of the protracted gun-battle.

The Guards took 30 prisoners, several of them RI 6 soldiers from Bravo Company. The bodies of 30 Argentine Army and Marine soldiers were found in and around the 5th Marine Battalion perimeter.

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Scots Guards

Company G Command

Company Commander
Doctor
Company 2ic
UniPlay
Forward Observer
W.Jarvis
Doctor
Frenki

7 Platoon Command

Platoon Commander
Bovan
Doctor
Usagi
RCL Gunner (Carl Gustaf)
Gillette
RCL Assistant
KostasGamer

A Section

Section Leader
Abramusas
Team Leader
Combat Life Saver
GPMG Gunner
Punisher
GPMG Assistant
Kofeina
Rifleman (LAT)
Spud
Rifleman (LAT)
Murdock
Rifleman
Wolfmother
Rifleman
Rifleman
Burger

B Section

Section Leader
Mauser
Team Leader
Viper
Combat Life Saver
GPMG Gunner
Luanmh
GPMG Assistant
Rifleman (LAT)
John
Rifleman (LAT)
Szarik
Rifleman
jason
Rifleman
Tootee
Rifleman
Martis

C Section

Section Leader
RasaDeDam
Team Leader
Bobi
Combat Life Saver
Miletic
GPMG Gunner
Orbit
GPMG Assistant
Skywalker
Rifleman (LAT)
Aleksa
Rifleman (LAT)
Feather
Rifleman
Rifleman
Tole
Rifleman
Louis_Bolgarov

8 Platoon Command

Platoon Commander
Johnny
Doctor
RCL Gunner (Carl Gustaf)
Zero
RCL Assistant
Kaczomen

D Section

Section Leader
Cobe
Team Leader
Psion
Combat Life Saver
Vlad
GPMG Gunner
Imbalance
GPMG Assistant
niceguyphil
Rifleman (LAT)
Rifleman (LAT)
Kru.
Rifleman
Igor
Rifleman
Andjelaa
Rifleman
Djordje

E Section

Section Leader
Gemon
Team Leader
Mini
Combat Life Saver
GPMG Gunner
Poison
GPMG Assistant
Heinrich
Rifleman (LAT)
Seedorf
Rifleman (LAT)
Rifleman
Lipe
Rifleman
Rifleman

F Section

Section Leader
Team Leader
Combat Life Saver
GPMG Gunner
GPMG Assistant
Yotza
Rifleman (LAT)
Sclembi
Rifleman (LAT)
Rifleman
Chewie
Rifleman
Blackshadow
Rifleman
Danny

Gun Section

Section Leader
Dr. Lexus
Gunner
Flappy
Gunner
NearchosCretan
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