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Minelaying Incursion in the Phoney War, 12-13 December 1939. Historical Scenario.
A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCWW-101110 World Wars era Platform Database. To avoid spoilers is better to play first a few times the British/Blue side, and only after play the German/Red side.
Image: pre-War photos of German destroyers Z1 Leberecht Maas and Z5 Paul Jakobi, as depicted on the A503 FM30-50 booklet for identification of ships, published by the Division of Naval Inteligence of the Navy Department of the United States and as consequence in public domain. Taked from Wikipedia Commons.
A mining scenario based on the 12-13 December mining incursion near Newcastle by German light surface forces in the Phoney War.
Both sides have limited resources and many task to do and many paths to victory.
The present forces are all the historical correct as I can get them.
Are depicted the historical surface and subsurface naval forces, the complete RAF Coastal Command order of battle at 12 December 1939, and the on the German side in the same date the near to North Sea units of Kustenfliegergruppen, Seeaufklarungsgruppen and the only and one Tragergruppe 186 with instructional land-based aircrafts to ready Luftwaffe air crews for future naval use in the Graf Zeppelin aircraft carrier, ship who never entered in service.
Notes:
Some very few British DD/DE not are of the exact time period represented, but almost all of them are historically correct and present as in the operations in December 1939.
The number of aircraft in the air units of both sides are hypothetical and not strictly historical.
A very few of the German aircraft types subvariants are not historical accurate.
Some aircrafts of the RAF Coastal Command are represented by similar types because limitations in the Database:
30xAnson MkI=15xHudson MkI/II.
4xLondon I, London II, Stranraer or Skeeter represented by 1xSunderland III.
2xSunderland I represented by 1xSunderland III.
The ahistorical SOSUS or CAESAR contacts on naval units can be considered as representations of SIGINT or HUMINT detections.
Enrique Mas, February 2015.
With version 02/07/2015 11:24 PM: