GIUK

From 1992. NATO tries to save the Faeroes from Soviet devastation.

From 1990. A Soviet CVBG must by stopped by outgunned NATO forces.

From 1990. NATO vs. Warsaw Pact shoot 'em up.

From 1990. NATO must stop a Soviet CVBG exiting the Baltic Sea.

From 1990. Amphibious ops in Norway.

Christmas 1943, bad day for sailing in the Far North.
 
Picture: BC Scharnhort, circa 1939. Source: Wikipedia from German Federal Archives/Kommando der Volksmarine - Bildbestand (DVM 10 Bild), Accession number DVM 10 Bild-23-63-12
 
With BB Tirpitz damaged by attack of midget submarines, BC Scharnhorst remains the only Kriegsmarine capital ship available to be utilized against the Arctic convoys from Great Britain to Soviet Union.
Admiral Fraser, Home Fleet commander, decides to set a trap to the last operational German capital ship, reinforcing the convoys escort, and using HUMINT from Norwegian agents for request information about the Scharnhorst movements.
At the closing hours of December, 25, 1943, westbound convoy RA55A was converging with eastbound convoy JW55B, near the Bear Island area, while the German group, coming from Altafjord, was approaching the area from south.
At 0755 on December, 25, 1943, Konteradmiral Erich Bey on command of BC Scharnhorst orders his accompanying DDs of the 4th Zerstorer-Flotille to explore in search of the convoys. Bad transmitted orders, bad weather and bad luck, and the BC and the DDs lost contact one with the others.
It's the time of the British trap execution ...
 
Some links:
http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnhors...rnostfront.html
http://www.naval-history.net/Cr03-56-00NorthCape.htm
http://www.9thflottilla.de/9s130.htm
For U-Boat patrols on this date:
http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_1673.html
http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/search.php
 
Enrique Mas, September 2009.

From 1991. A USN CVBG vs. the USSR post-nuclear strike. (qv "MEDC Armageddon")

From 1991. A Royal Navy carrier group vs. Soviet submarines (or is it the other way around?)

From 1991. The Royal Navy in single combat against the Soviet Northern Fleet.

From 1992. Ship-to-ship off Iceland. Good basic scenario for beginners.

The original GIUK Scenario 1.0 from Harpoon DOS, just in case you don't have it around.

From 1990. Good practice for a beginner.

Fortress V 3.0
by Ralf Koelbach
September, 5th, 2009
 
A scenario for HCE and the HCDB.
 
Battleset: EC 2003, GIUK
 
This is V 3.0 of a classical Cold war scen I wrote back in 2004 and updated to V 2.0 in 2007. The scenario uses a lot of mobile land units and hidden ressources for both sides.
 
Have fun!

For use with the WW DB, a very simple, direct and fast battle inspired in historic events, the fight between BB Bismarck and CA Prinz Eugen against BB Prince of Wales and BC Hood in the Strait of Denmark. Good also for testing the artillery. Playable from both Red and Blue sides.
 
Picture: An aerial photo of HMS Hood taken from a RAF Coastal Command Hudson aircraft on 24 May 1941. The battlecruiser was sunk later that day during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Source: Wikipedia from the Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial under the ID Number: P00250.012
 
More and interesting data at http://www.bismarck-class.dk/bismarck/hist...raitbattle.HTML
 
Enrique Mas, September 2009.

From 1996. Navigation fault or act of war?

From 1992. Finland, Sweden and Norway vs. the USSR in this workaround, originally from the Finnish Harpoon Archives.
 

From 2004? Run NATO's only remaining CVBG along the hostile Norwegian coast.

From 1996. Command a Loyalist CVBG during the Russian Civil War of 1997.

Hello,
 
attached the third and last scenario based on DeGoey´s Harpoon Battlebook - "Hemphill´s Ordeal".
 
You are ordered to move a small through the Atlantic close to Kevlavik in order to unload. The way ahead is dangerous and time is short. Be quick, but very cautious at the same time. You are outgunned, this scen is a heavily modified version of DeGoey´s original recommendation. The Soviet side now is really strong.
 
Playing red side is possible, maybe interesting for newbies and backcomers.
 
Have fun!
 
Ralf

From 1991. Alone without communications in the far North Atlantic.

Iceland subs for the Falklands in this 1996 work-around.

A what if the economy keeps getting bad.

A small-scale tactical exercise.

USN CVBG vs. Soviet-held Bodo.

Midsummer 1985
Sweden vs. USSR
 
As most Swedes prepare for midsummer and ignoring that the general secretary of teh Soviet comunist party had been toppled after a few months in power.
International reaction had been loud but that shouldn't affect us should it ?
 
At the same time the Swedish government recieve bothering information on Soviet troop deployments in the Baltic area from NATO sources.
The Swedish CinC manages to persuade the prime minister to approve the highest readyness level before actual mobilization "Attention".
 
On the way back from the meeting with prime minister the CinC told his driver
"Either there's a war before Monday or I'll have all time for golf, and I sincerly hopes for the last"
 
But there where no time for golf.