Scenario Design & Discussion

File Name: Renegade File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 8 Jun 2008 File Category: GIUK DB Used: N/A Authors: Unknown Battleset-GIUK: .sc5 - HDS1 - HDS1 "Fail Safe" with a US CVBG. Click here to download this file

File Name: Tanker Troubles File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 17 Sep 2009 File Category: IOPG DB Used: N/A Authors: John Bendel Battleset-IOPG: .sc4 - Orig - Original From 1994? Thread the Straits of Hormuz with a tanker convoy. Click here to download this file

File Name: Turned Around File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 17 Sep 2009 File Category: IOPG DB Used: N/A Authors: MAC Battleset-IOPG: .sc4 - Orig - Original From 1991. This time the Soviets have all the airpower and the USN doesn't. It will be ugly... Click here to download this file

It has been said in recent years that modern warfare clearly favors the attacker. Whether true or not, it is also said that this perception may encourage countries to favour pre-emption. It is certainly clear from recent conflicts that early battles usually determine the success of entire campaigns, and in fact, a highly successful pre-emptive strike may prevent (or at least delay) future war. Israel is no stranger to pre-emption. In the late 1970s, Iraq persuaded France to construct a research reactor near Baghdad. This light water nuclear reactor was named Osiraq by the French, an amalgam of the name of the Egyptian god of the dead, Osiris, with that of Iraq. This expan…

File Name: Kangaroo (BS Australia, DB HC_65to80_DB) File Submitter: donaldseadog File Submitted: 27 Feb 2011 File Category: Custom DB Used: HC_65to80_DB_110226 Authors: Don Thomas Battleset: Australia Battleset-Custom: .scz - Custom BS - Custom BS Kangaroo Exercises A scenario for HCE utilising the database HC_65to80_DB_110226 (by divefreak) and battleset Australia (by donaldseadog) An early - mid 1960s small scale joint Naval exercise (Australia/USA/NZ) off the Australian coast proximate the Coral Sea. Things go wrong when a USSR shadow gets in the firing line. Australian, USA and NZ joint naval exercises have been progressing for ten days of the Aus…

File Name: EUROFED1 File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Updated: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: GIUK A Federation is Born EC2000 Battle for the Norwegian Sea NATO is on the ropes. With no cohesive infrastructure and fractionalized, bitter in-fighting divides members into ever-changing spheres of influence. Finally, Germany breaks off, taking the rest of continental Europe and Russia into an alliance called the European Federation. Only France remains sitting on the fence. England and the United States have consolidated assets and have formed an Allied alliance in order to protect vital interests and maintain a balance of power. They must now attem…

File Name: Predator or Prey File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Updated: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: WestPac Predator or Prey Having taken responsibility for its own defence, and in the face of increased dialogue and openness on the part of the North, the Republic of Korea has tacitly encouraged the departure of US troops on the Korean Peninsula. Responsibilities elsewhere have accelerated this redeployment and reshaped the American presence from a military force into a wholly diplomatic delegation. An end to the decades old stand-off between the two Koreas appears imminent, and yet something is not quite right about this new atmosphere of peace…

File Name: Mind the Gap File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 12 Jul 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: N/A Authors: Unknown Battleset-GIUK: .sci - EC2000 - EC2000 From 2004? Run NATO's only remaining CVBG along the hostile Norwegian coast. Click here to download this file

File Name: Task Force Comedy File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 16 Sep 2009 File Category: IOPG DB Used: N/A Authors: Jim Werbaneth Battleset-IOPG: .sc4 - Orig - Original from 1998. Convoy defense in the Gulf. Click here to download this file

A new RAND report contains a number of hypothetical scenarios which are focused on aircraft carrier operations and which might provoke some ideas for new Harpoon scenarios (hopefully). The full report is here. China-Taiwan Crisis (2009) The government in Beijing waited until after the 2008 Olympic Games before taking a direct coercive approach against Taiwan. The motivation to take such direct action increased during the games, since the leadership in Taipei used China’s refusal to admit its team into the games as an opportunity to pronounce its “new national status” and virtually declare independence from the mainland. Within a month of the end of the games, Beij…

File Name: Juggernaut (NWJG3) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: GIUK Juggernaut (Part 3 of 3) Campaign 1 - Casus Belli: Reason for War New World Order series HDS3 GIUK Battleset With hard-line Communists back in power in Moscow, the former Soviet republics are reunited as the New Soviet Confederation (NSC) on 1 January 1994. Not all republics, especially those in the Baltic region, want to rejoin Communist Russia, but they aren't given any choice. The NSC invades the Baltic republics on 14 June 1994 and NATO responds. (Released September 2000). An NSC task force of titanic proportions has set out from the Kola Peninsula, head…

After Action Report: Hold Fast! A scenario by Patrick Howard (aka rainman) 'Hold Fast!' is a new HCE scenario for the EC2003 GIUK Battleset. I played the scenario using beta 2008.055. At game start, a Royal Navy carrier group (Task Force Cornwallis) was centred on the brand spanking new carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, less than 100 nm south of Rockall. She was being escorted by the Type 45 destroyers HMS Defender and HMS Dragon, the Type 23 frigates HMS Westminster and HMS St Albans, the Type 22/3 frigate HMS Campbeltown, and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker RFA Wave Ruler. The carrier air wing comprised eight F-35B Joint Strike Fighters, twenty GR.7 and GR.9 H…

File Name: Back to Baghdad File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG Back to Baghdad EC2000 Battle for the Gulf of Oman It is late 2002, and the prospect of war in the Persian Gulf is once again considered very likely. The US has already deployed large forces to the theater in preparation for what looks to be an inevitable conflict with Iraq, and the buildup continues. The political landscape, however, is very different from what it was in 1991. Both Saudi Arabia and Turkey, key Coalition partners in Operation Desert Storm, have this time refused to permit American forces to deploy troops at their installations or launch offensive ope…

File Name: Baltic Sea-Nordic Sea File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 14 Sep 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: N/A Authors: Lost At Sea Battleset-GIUK: .sc1 - Orig - Original From 1992. Another breakout attempt by the Red Baltic Fleet. Click here to download this file

The European Union has long been unhappy with American economic and military sanctions against the People's Republic of China. In recent years, the EU has grown increasingly concerned that the sanctions were unduly stifling European prosperity by blocking access to a huge market. The EU continued to bring diplomatic pressure to bear on Washington as the sanctions dragged on, hoping that eventually they would be lifted. Instead, when American intelligence community insisted that it had discovered an apparent link between China and the Iranian nuclear weapons program, the sanctions were tightened, much to the chagrin of the EU. The focus has now shifted away from diplomacy,…

AAR: Blame it on the Kellys [spoiler Alert] A Harpoon Classic scenario By Brad Leyte As the orders arrived from Canberra, all that I could think about was the poem that went, "For want of a nail..." When were the pongos ever going to learn that the pointy end of the spear is pretty damned useless without the beans, bullets, and gas needed to get them there? Now, due to a shortage of spare parts, no ASW helos could be operated from the frigates that depended so heavily upon them. Well, the bean counters finally got their way. I just hope that they are the same ones who have to count the bodies that result from their parsimonious conduct after this operation is ov…

File Name: Three If By Sea File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 17 Sep 2009 File Category: IOPG DB Used: N/A Authors: Joseph M Casazza Battleset-IOPG: .sc4 - Orig - Original From 1991. The Indian Navy takes on Pakistan. Click here to download this file

File Name: The Wrath of Paris File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 5 Jul 2009 File Category: MEDC DB Used: N/A Authors: Unknown Battleset-MEDC: .sck - EC2000 - EC2000 From 1998. France vs. Egypt, five variations. Click here to download this file

AAR: My Pet Dragon [spoiler Alert] A Harpoon Classic scenario By Brad Leyte I don't often get a chance to play the red side. So, when I saw that this scenario was playable from either side, I jumped at it. As the PRC prepared for the impending assault, the general vicinity of the CVBG was revealed. Ground-based radar was able to detect the distinctive emissions from an E-2 Hawkeye. Although they didn’t know the exact location of the carrier, they knew that it could not be far away and decided to re-configure the aircraft to defend their bases, first. In accordance with the orders, the PRC would not take any offensive actions in hopes that…

Predator or Prey A new HCCE scenario for the Westpac Battleset (RED side) Having taken responsibility for its own defence, and in the face of increased dialogue and openness on the part of the North, the Republic of Korea has tacitly encouraged the departure of US troops on the Korean Peninsula. Responsibilities elsewhere have accelerated this redeployment and reshaped the American presence from a military force into a wholly diplomatic delegation. An end to the decades old stand-off between the two Koreas appears imminent, and yet something is not quite right about this new atmosphere of peace and reunification. Key anti-Communist legislation was recently dismantled…