PBEM / MBX Wargaming

OK, using the Gulf Strike system I ran a short, small-scale engagement. Background: Iran has declared itself the arbiter of all naval traffic in the Straits of Hormuz. The straits have be sown with sea mines and Iranian fast attack craft have been attacking/harassing western naval assets in the gulf. Two US Carrier Battle Groups, along with an Expeditionary Strike Group are operating in the northern Arabian Sea. USCENTCOM tasks CENTNAV and CENTMC to destroy the silkworm batteries both along the Iranian coast and on Qeshm Island, and clear Qeshm Island of all Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces. US forces for avoid attacks into and around the Iranian militar…

I chose the compsite squadron for this Cold War scenario with a di-emphasis of F/A-18, and in favor of F-14, A-6, and specialty naval aircraft. Veteran F-14 HotRod (Fast) Skilled F-14 Cash (Fast) Average F-14 Feather (Slow) Newbie F-14 Echo (Slow) Veteran A-6 Nova (Fast) Average A-6 Python (Slow) Average A-6 Pepper (Slow) Green A-6 Crabby (Slow) Average F-18 Wraith (Fast) Green F-18 Joker (Slow) Average EA-6B Jazz (Slow) Average E-2C Thunder (-) 1st Target randomly selected, Target 15 Fuel Depot midway along the Swedish-Finland border. Target causes -4 Weight Points and mission completion will cause +3 Stress Points. target consists of 2x Sites and 2x…

Blind Sided, Scenario 1 from The Death of 1st Panzer. Initial impression was who was blind-siding who, and perhaps a scenario more aptly named “race for the bridges”. Essentially 1st Tank Battalion, supported by a recon BRDM-AT unit and two salvoes of HE must advance across the map and seize the town of Walkerburg. Out of position and tasked with this mission to reinforce and hold Walkerburg are elements of the Bundeswehr’s 1/171st mechanized infantry/panzer grenadier company, reinforced with a Luchs recon platoon and Jaguar AT platoon. A Scenario Special Rule provided the Soviet 1st Tank Battalion a surprise start. An HE fire mission is called in on the …

Blind Sided, Scenario 1 from The Death of 1st Panzer. Initial impression was who was blind-siding who, and perhaps a scenario more aptly named “race for the bridges”. Essentially 1st Tank Battalion, supported by a recon BRDM-AT unit and two salvoes of HE must advance across the map and seize the town of Walkerburg. Out of position and tasked with this mission to reinforce and hold Walkerburg are elements of the Bundeswehr’s 1/171st mechanized infantry/panzer grenadier company, reinforced with a Luchs recon platoon and Jaguar AT platoon. A Scenario Special Rule provided the Soviet 1st Tank Battalion a surprise start. An HE fire mission is called in on the …

CyberBoard, a free tool for aiding PBEM games. I haven't tried it out as yet but thought I'd share anyway in case someone else has words to say about this one. http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/screensh.html

Speed Bumps, Scenario 2 from World At War: Death of 1st Panzer Elements of West Germany’s 1/172 PzG attempts to delay elements of the attacking Soviet 33rd MRD. 8 Turns, to win Soviets must control both towns of Wittburg and Talen by end of game or NATO wins. Due to massive Soviet electronic jamming, only one of 1/172 PzG’s formation marker is used for the first couple of turns, limiting their ability to engage. Also, Soviets get an automatic move at the start of the game, possibly permitting a second activation in Turn 1. The West German defense had PzG platoons with Milan ATGM’s in both towns. Centrally located was the Leo II HQ and Leo II platoon in a…

Greetings My name is Angel "Silver_Dragon" Francisco, I live in Spain, Barcelona. I was one of the Dual Luckers in the former Global Thunder MBX campaign, and a participant in the campaign no begun by Bill Jennings War in 2012, I would like to contact the creators of MBX, to advise me in the creation of Small MBX or MBX participation in other ongoing projects as a referee or assistant of the management team to increase my experience and support the Communities. I have about five years of experience in the construction of scenarios and battles Harpoon 4.1 and subsequent extensions. I do not usually participate much in the English-speaking forums, but I can ojeo the of…

[This is being run by Ralf Pichocki and was announced this morning on the TacOps mailing list. I post it here for information. I plan to participate. If interested I'll put you into contact with Ralf.] As there is seemingly some interest to do even a small CPX, I'd like to open recruiting fir Saturday, 24th of April 1600 UTC. I will prepare a small company sized scenario for a maximum of three active players per side. Minimum is one player per side, but if there are more applicants than places, we could have a non playing CO on each side. So, all in all, two to eight players are needed. Planning before the game is useful, but not absolut…

Aegean Strike Scenario 2: World War III Southwestern Front was set up last night. Gaming will take place on Wednesday nights. It is a 20 turn scenario, the last one was thirty. Soviets essentially have to sieze the Bosphorous Straits, while NATO has to prevent that. The main NATO belligerents appear to be the Greeks and Turks. The US has one carrier, pitiful ground units, and significant post game start reinforcements by USAF units flown into Italy. I think that I will lobby for the Turks this time around. A couple of army corps, a plethora of assorted aircraft, and side order of naval forces. As the American last game in Gulf Strike, mine was a primarily an air a…

Gentlemen, An Umpired PBEM Harpoon game is being offered to anyone that is interested. The scenario being played is a slightly modified version of Surge into the Barents published in High Tide page 59. If you’ve had enough with the computer stuff, tired of a burning retina, and bug fixes, and want a real mental exercise than playing Harpoon4 in way it’s designed to be played is for you. The requirements to play is: one must have a copy of either Harpoon4 or 4.1 Rules, graph paper – that’s right, I said graph paper, you’re going to do your own plotting men. Protractor, ruler, calculator, and pencil with an eraser are also required. No, there is no fancy graphics, bu…

Well, against my better judgment, if folks are not interested in or otherwise willing to commit to my first, smaller scale wargame idea (detailed in this thread), then I will put forward my other idea for consideration. I am thinking of wargaming the June 1942 Battle of Midway, using the Command at Sea (CaS) rules and other MBX type umpiring efforts. It would also exploit the capabilities of the wonderfully useful CIC Warfare Plotter (shameless plug!). Though I have been toying with this idea for the better part of a year now, it would take a while to get it worked up, and would not likely be available before mid or late 2010. Right now, I'd just like to hear …

Defenders of the Fatherland This is a solitaire battle report of Arrigo Velicogna's scenario Defenders of the Fatherland from the Battles Within Battles expansion. The scenario takes place in the upper right most corner of the Blood & Bridges map. A West German reserve M-48 tank company, and a light infantry grunts with milan ATGM, company are tasked with buying time for reqard units to prepare to halt the Soviets at the Rhine. The T-80's, BMP-2's and assorted cats and dogs of the Soviet 93rd Reconaissance Battalion is tasked with getting to the Rhine by exiting at least 6 units of the west map edge with six turns and control a cross road at Hex AA7. Both …

Does anyone know any good PBEM sites?

For new PBEM game, need commanders for command the following forces: Katasia Orbat Ground Forces Oriental HQ (1 commander): elements 21º Infantry Bde (Formed 1988 UsArmy Mech bde) (1 commander optional) elements 231º Frontier Btl (Formed Inf Btl) (1 commander optional) Naval Forces Navy Mediterranean Fleet (1 commander) 1st Patrol Flotilla (1 commander optional) 2x LCS (1 in use, 1 commander optional) 2nd Patrol Flotilla (1 commander optional) 4x Visby class corvette (2 commander optional) 3rd Sub Flotilla (1 commander optional) 1x S80a Sub (in use) Air Force Oriental HQ (1 commander) Melilla Airport (GEML) (1 optional) 12xF-18C Nador Airport (GMMW) (1 …

Decisive Action Decisive Action is a modern Division and Corps level simulation that depicts combat with maneuver brigades and battalions along with supporting artillery, airstrikes, electronic warfare, engineer, helicopters, and even pysops units. Units are depicted with official NATO symbology, and US Army official map control measures delineate the battlefield. New life may have been blown into the languishing gem with the very recent release of v2.7. The sim is available from HPS Sims. I have had an on again off again love affair with this sim. The civilian version is a deviation from a product used at the US Army Command and Staff College. It suffers fro…

Okay, Gulf Strike arrived yesterday, maybe even the day before, I've been away house sitting for a week. The game is in pristine condition, appeared to even have the original shrink wrapping on the package. Since I found it so late in the evening I only had time to page thru each of the booklets (the box was stuffed to the brim with supplements and counters and maps galore). Hopefully I'll spend some time with the game before Pete slaughters me and place my findings as a paper wargame novice in this thread.

A quiet saturday morning led me up into the attic to inventory my board wargames. Other than determining that I have a problem, so says my wife, here is what I found. ATO Into the Bear Trap Avalanche Press Battle of the Bulge Afrika Korps Desert War East Front (2nd Ed.) Heroes of the Soviet Union Avalon Hill Tactics II MBT/IDF (could not put my hands on IDF but I know its here somewhere) B-17 Flight Leader Blitzkrieg The Guns of August TacAir Fortress Europe Russian Front Panzer Blitz (couldn't put my hands on it but I know that Arab Israeli Wars is here somewhere) Squad Leader SL Creshendo of Doom SL Cross of Iron ASL (couldn't put hands o…

There are some retreat parameters in DA, and the Maximum Loss is 30%. Now I want to let my unit don't retreat or retreat until Max Loss is more than 30%, Does anyone tell me how to do that?

Surge Into the Barents Fourms are open. Hmm, one of our heroes here was sunk?

How time flies ... Ten years since that massive MBX Global Thunder. Link to the ENN news page that covered some of the major events of the wargame: ENN coverage