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File Name: Salalah Station (1986) File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 04 Feb 2013 File Category: Scenarios My fourth scenario of 2013... In 1986, the civil war in Yemen spilled over into Oman. Oman responded by firing mortar rounds into Yemen. The Soviet Union, Yemen's ally, moved ships into the area. The United States has been asked by Oman to move vessels into the area to help stabilize the situation. Image: CG 24 Reeves (public domain image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E4-CG24Cruising.jpg) Click here to download this file

I updated the storylines to make them a little more flexible for scenario design. I've also added a new player...the unaligned nation of Neutralia. Enjoy!

The powered lifeboat could easily be added to the database by using the Boston Whaler and just setting the top speed for the new entry to 6 knots (as per the material in the link above). CIV Powered Lifeboat Text: A generic lifeboat carried by modern vessels designed to carry 20-30 people. The inflatable life raft will require an entirely new entry, but is definitely worth adding.

I realized that POL should not be used for Police, as it is already being used for certain kinds of facilities (POL = Political?). I suppose CIV could be used. Or maybe just POLICE (i.e., the full word). Any ideas?

I realized that POL should not be used for Police, as it is already being used for certain kinds of facilities (POL = Political?). I suppose CIV could be used. Or maybe just POLICE (i.e., the full word). Any ideas?

Quick update...the MCM 1 Avenger is still showing the problems reported. Not sure if any work was done on it or not, but I figured I better report the problem. ANW HUD-4 v1.11

Both of the Spyder SAMS seem to be missing an actual weapon. When you hit the Mount button, you get the Spyder launcher, but when you then hit the Weapon button, there is nothing there. I don't know if this is a database issue, a glitch of the game (i.e., it works but just does not show up in the platform display), or something else. ANW HUD 4 v.1.11

Okay...curiouser and curiouser, as Alice would say... Large helicopters can be loaded on SOME ships with STOL runways (LHD 1 Wasp) but not on others (DDH 181 Hyuga). Perhaps the Hyuga has the wrong flag checked in the database? Or perhaps it is the right flag (i.e., it can only handle medium helicopters), but something is off in the description of the ship? Something else...the CH-53 is listed is a large helicopter, but the MH-53 can be carried by ships with medium aircraft runways. But aren't these the same size? Or is the MH-53 specially equipped so it can be flown off smaller ships? In any event, the question seems to be not the aircraft but whether the SHIP has the right runway type. At least, that's what I can figure out without being able to open up the database and play around with things. I hope all this helps, Gunny. Let me know what you can figure out at your end.

This is what I found out...the Frelons can be added to a carrier that has a "large aircraft" runway. The same is true for the CH-53s. The question, I guess, is whether the Chinese carrier (and similar vessels that are now listed as having "medium aircraft" runways) should be set to carry these large helicopters or not.

A quick follow-up... The issue with Mavericks still appears to exist. I cannot get them to fire...I'm either too low, too high, or they just aren't illuminating the target. ANW HUD-4 v1.11

Xian Y-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian_Y-7 http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2013/01/china-confirms-y-7-for-aew-for-carrier-ops/ "Carrier-based AWACS variant [of the Y-7]....has 4 rudders like E-2 AEW" --Wikipedia I suppose all the variants could be added, including the MA60 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian_MA60), but the "Chinese E-2" should probably get priority as that really could be a game-changer in a scenario. ANW HUD-4 v1.11

I believe you, but it's weird...of all the helicopters, why would that particular one not be carrier-capable? Any ideas what might be causing it? Can anyone else replicate the issue?

I tried to place the SA 321G Super Frelon (and the variants, the SA 321 Ga and the Chinese Zhi-8) on carriers, but they are not listed as carrier-capable aircraft (i.e., they don't show up in the list of aircraft that can be added to a carrier). I suspect this is a database issue, so I figured I better report it. Thanks! ANW HUD 4 v1.11

Quick note...I modified (and hopefully improved) the system slightly, adding a new table and changing the wording in other tables in a few places. Obviously, you don't use every table every time and not every set of rolls will give people a viable scenario (some results will be totally implausible or ridiculous) but I hope that, as a brainstorming tool, the system overall is helpful and fun! Anyone who wants to post scenario ideas they've generated from the system in this thread should feel free to do so. It would be fun to see what people come up with. And the whole idea is to encourage scenario design for Harpoon.

Not sure if this is the right forum...I apologize in advance if I should have posted this elsewhere... What happens if war broke out in Germany, c. 1984, and the Soviets ended up using their "Seven Days to the Rhine" plan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine At the end of the seven days, the Soviets have "won" in that they now occupy most of Germany. Parts of Western Germany have been destroyed, along with with most of Denmark and Poland, but France and Italy have been left untouched and the U.K. has only been hit with conventional weapons. (Lots of them, but just conventional ones.) Aside from naval actions, in which nuclear cruise missiles and torpedoes are used, the United States has been left untouched, too. The Soviets do not want to risk a strategic exchange with other nuclear powers and because the United States does not want it, either, the world dodges a bullet. Basically, I'm assuming one ends up with a limited nuclear war because neither side will use nuclear weapons directly against the territory of another country with nuclear weapons, which could lead to either a Countervalue or Counterforce exchange. Thanks to France making noises about how any attack with nuclear weapons against France would lead to a Countervalue strike, the Soviets assume the U.K. and the U.S. might do this, too, and they draw the line at tactical nukes used against non-nuclear allies and forces at sea. On a scale of one to ten, with ten being "yes, that is how it would happen" and one being "no, utterly implausible," how plausible is this course of events? Could we have really dodged the global nuclear bullet if tactical nukes had been used? Just curious...what would have been the Soviet objectives here? Just keep their forces alive and get them to sea so they won't be blown up in port? Destroy as much of NATO's naval power as possible, just for sake of keeping the enemy as weak as possible and preventing future attacks? Or would it be more aggressive, with an attempt to blockade Europe and keep American forces from getting to the U.K., Italy, etc., again to keep the West in a weak position and get them to give up on Germany and to do so as soon as possible? Or something else? Am I missing something? So what happens next? Western Europe is in bad shape...something like 50-100 tactical warheads have been used on both sides. Radiation sickness, fallout, etc. will be a big problem in the near future. How does the West deal with a "new world order" in which NATO has been dealt a huge body blow, Germany and what is left of Denmark are under the control of the Soviets (who now have the warm water ports they always wanted), etc.? The superpowers have probably lost lots of ships and aircraft on both sides, and the effects of nuclear weapons are now horrifyingly real rather than theory or science fiction. Does the war continue? Perhaps the West accepts that Germany is lost, but how might they try to punish or weaken the Soviets on the world stage in other ways? Or would they start planning for a new invasion of Fortress Europe and the liberation of Germany? And how does the rest of the world treat the Soviets after this? Which countries gravitate closer to the Soviet "winners" and which countries are now even more hard line anti-Soviet? Thoughts? Observations?

Costa Sur Amphibious Transport (Argentina) http://www.worldwarships.com/class/costa-sur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Bah%C3%ADa_San_Blas_%28B-4%29 "an Amphibious cargo ship of the Argentine Navy, capable of discharging landing craft, troops, vehicles and cargo." --Wikipedia ANW HUD 4 v1.11 (I know Gunny won't be adding new platforms for a while, but I'm posting these as I find them so he'll have the material available when he needs it.)

Thanks!

El Yadekh patrol boat (Algeria) http://www.worldwarships.com/class/el-yadekh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Algerian_ships http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/africa/algeria.htm Text for database: An Algerian patrol boat class; individual boats commissioned between 1982 and 2005. ANW HUD-4 v1.11 (I know Gunny won't be adding new platforms for a while, but I'm posting these as I find them so he'll have the material available when he needs it.)

Suggested addition for An-24/26... TRP #033 - 1 Generic Squad (Simply because other nations use it besides Russia.) ANW HUD 4 v1.11

File Name: The Cu Lao Re Affair (1984) File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 22 Jan 2013 File Category: Scenarios My third scenario of the year... At the height of the Cold War, Dutch forces must extract intelligence officers from an island off the coast of Vietnam. Image: A port bow view of the Netherlands frigate HrMs Kortenaer (F 807) underway (Author unknown, but image attributed to the U.S. Navy). Click here to download this file

File Name: Operation Southern Gulf (1982) File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 18 Jan 2013 File Category: Scenarios My second scenario of 2013... Spain is conducting a training exercise in the Gulf of Sidra. Libya believes the entire Gulf of Sidra is their territorial waters. Are these two nations on a collision course? Image: The Spanish aircraft carrier Dédalo (R01) underway. Four Hawker Siddley AV-8S Harrier fighters, a Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King and a Agusta-Bell AB 212 are visible on deck. (U.S. DefenseImagery photo VIRIN: DN-SC-88-08302; Author: LCdr. John Leenhouts, USN.) Click here to download this file

Okay, I was bored and I put together some tables for randomly generating scenario ideas. I figured I would share them with folks. Use as many as you need to come up with a good story. Enjoy! I hope they inspire many fun scenarios! First, we need to know when the story takes place: Year of Crisis 1-2: Cold War: 1970 + 1d20 3-4: Turn of the Century: 1990 + 1d20 5-6: Present and Near Future: 2010 + 1d20 (This gives us a range from 1971 to 2030, which is actually beyond the official range of the HUD-4, but allows for more historical and speculative scenarios. There are enough older platforms in the HUD-4 that one can handle a lot of the 1970s pretty easily. And one can always just re-roll if one feels a particular year is unsuitable, or shift the rolls to 1-3: 1980 + 1d20 and 4-6: 2000 + 1d20, for a range of 1981 to 2020.) Second, we need some good guys: Heroic Blue: The Usual Suspects Australia Brazil Canada E.U. France India Israel Italy Japan NATO Netherlands Norway Other (e.g., Morocco, Germany, etc.) or Roll Again Pacific Alliance (Mexico, Colombia, and Peru) Philippines South Africa South Korea Spain United Kingdom United States Heroic Blue: Other Possibilities Bangladesh Black Sea Nation (Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, etc.) Chile Denmark Finland Germany Greece Malaysia Morocco New Zealand Other (Uzbekistan, Estonia, etc.) or Roll Again Pakistan Persian Gulf State (Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, etc.) Poland Portugal Singapore Sweden Taiwan Thailand Turkey Third, we need some bad guys. In fact, I've got THREE tables here (the number after the country's name is a Wikipedia-based guesstimate of how many combat aircraft the country is likely to have available--this is a VERY rough estimate, and obviously the quality of the specific aircraft matters a great deal, but it at least provides some idea of the overall threat presented by the country in question): Concepts for Red Side: The Usual Suspects Algeria (200) Angola (60) Argentina (80) Belarus (200) China (1,500) Cuba (200) Indonesia (60) Iran (400) Kazakhstan (180) Libya (50) Myanmar (120) Non-State Antagonists (e.g., drug cartel, terrorists, pirates, insurgents, etc.) North Korea (650) Pakistan (500) Russia/USSR (1,900) Serbia (90) Sudan (70) Syria (300) Venezuela (70) Yemen (160) Concepts for Red Side: Alternates 1 Albania (30) Azerbaijan (50) Bangladesh (100) Brazil (220) Bulgaria (80) Cambodia (30) Cameroon (50) Chile (60) Colombia (40) Ecuador (60) Egypt (700) Ethiopia (40) Failed state or other nation in the process of civil war, rebellion, or collapse (varies) Greece (300) India (1,000) Iraq (varies) Jordan (100) Malaysia (40) Mexico (50) Mongolia (80) Concepts for Red Side: Alternates 2 Morocco (100) Nigeria (30) Norway (50) Other (or Roll Again) Peru (60) Poland (100) Saudi Arabia (280) South Africa (40) Spain (150) Sri Lanka (30) Thailand (100) Tunisia (50) Turkmenistan (80) Turkey (460) U.A.E. (80) Uganda (20) Ukraine (180) Uzbekistan (110) Vietnam (180) Zimbabwe (30) And, of course, we need a plot. Some generic country names have been used: Basic Storylines: Why Wars and Battles Happen 1. The noble and peace-loving country of Freedonia must position some of its forces in a disputed or hostile region to gather intelligence, conduct mine sweeping operations, establish or defend a territorial claim, etc. Freedonia must complete its mission and avoid serious losses. The evil and totalitarian nation of Bacteria will attack them. 2. Freedonia must move some of its forces—a convoy, a task force, etc.—through a disputed or hostile region. This may involve running a blockade. Bacteria will attempt to stop them. 3. Freedonia must defend its forces or assets against one or more air strikes conducted by Bacteria. Employing air defense effectively and/or maintaining air superiority will probably be critical to this mission. 4. Criminals and/or hostile nations are engaged in illegal activities (piracy, smuggling, violating Freedonia’s EEZ, etc.). Freedonia must seize one or more of the ships involved in these actions (i.e., Possess rather than Damage) and bring the perpetrators to justice. 5. Freedonia must locate and destroy hostile submarine forces controlled by Bacteria. These must be prevented from reaching their intended destination or completing their intended mission. 6. Freedonia must locate and destroy (or seize) hostile surface forces controlled by Bacteria. This may be a convoy or task force, possibly assisted by submarines or aircraft. These surface vessels must be prevented from reaching their intended destination and/or completing their intended mission. 7. Bacteria is believed to have supported terrorists, attacked neutral shipping, etc. Freedonia conducts a raid or a punitive strike. 8. Freedonia and Bacteria are at war. Freedonia must gain control of the skies over Bacteria and then destroy vital targets on the ground and/or at sea. This may involve air strikes, cruise missile strikes, naval bombardment, and/or the use of marines, commandos, and/or paratroopers. 9. Bacteria has attacked or is planning to attack Freedonia’s ally, Harmonia. Freedonia must defend its ally from this attack by destroying Bacteria’s aircraft, ships, and submarines before they can inflict a critical amount of damage on Harmonia. 10. Freedonia must conduct a rescue or extraction mission. This will either require getting a submarine or one or more aircraft on station for a certain period of time and then getting them to a safe destination, or gaining control of a ship being used to hold prisoners or hostages (i.e., Possess rather than Damage) and then getting it to a safe destination, all while evading or eliminating forces attempting to prevent the rescue or extraction from taking place. 11. Freedonia’s ally Harmonia has experienced a coup. The new government is hostile to Freedonia. Freedonia must invade and occupy Harmonia in order to restore the previous government or establish a new government friendly to Freedonia. 12. Failed state Dystopia has collapsed into utter chaos; Freedonia must occupy the country, prevent humanitarian crises and/or acts of genocide, disarm the warring parties, capture or kill pirates or terrorists or drug lords or warlords, and/or assist in rebuilding the nation. 13. The non-aligned nation of Neutralia is in the middle of a civil war or rebellion. Freedonia has decided to assist either the existing government or the rebels. The other side may or may not be receiving arms from Bacteria. Freedonia must protect its allies and/or attack its enemies. 14. Freedonia has decided to attack Bacteria’s ally Sylvania, its military assets (e.g., warships, etc.), and/or its merchant shipping. Bacteria will either attempt to stop the attack or to assist Sylvania after the attack has taken place. 15. Freedonia must maintain a no-fly zone over part or all of Bacteria to prevent that country from engaging in hostile activities against other nations or freedom fighters operating within its borders. 16. Freedonia must protect maritime assets such as oil rigs, fishing boats, etc. from hostile nations, criminals, and/or terrorists. 17. Freedonia believes that Bacteria is planning an attack; Freedonia must make a preemptive strike against some of Bacteria’s critical military or industrial assets. 18. Terrorists, pirates, drug lords, etc. are operating out of Neutralia. Freedonia intends to conduct a raid against them. Neutralia may or may not be assisting Freedonia, or may have even refused to cooperate (possibly because it feels this is an internal matter) and has threatened to attack any of Freedonia’s forces crossing into its territory, territorial waters, or airspace. 19. Freedonia must patrol a region (to defend its borders, enforce a blockade, help police the EEZ of an ally, etc.). Hostile forces entering this region and/or attempting to pass through it without authorization must be driven off, seized, and/or destroyed. 20. Other or Roll Again. Some more tables, listing possible locations for a scenario... 20 Places Where Things Can Go Wrong 1. Somalia 2. Democratic Republic of the Congo 3. Sudan 4. Chad 5. Zimbabwe 6. Afghanistan 7. Yemen 8. Iraq 9. Central African Republic 10. Ivory Coast 11. Guinea 12. Pakistan 13. Nigeria 14. Kenya 15. Ethiopia 16. Niger 17. Uganda 18. Myanmar 19. North Korea 20. Eritrea 100 More Places Where Things Can Go Wrong Syria Liberia Cameroon Nepal East Timor Bangladesh Sri Lanka Egypt Republic of the Congo Iran Cambodia Mauritania Uzbekistan Burkina Faso Kyrgyzstan Equatorial Guinea Zambia Lebanon Tajikistan Solomon Islands Laos Angola Libya Georgia Colombia Djibouti Papua New Guinea Philippines Comoros Madagascar Mozambique Bolivia Indonesia Fiji Tanzania Ecuador Azerbaijan Nicaragua Guatemala Moldova Honduras China Algeria India Mali Turkmenistan Venezuela Russia Thailand Turkey Belarus Morocco Maldives Serbia Jordan Cape Verde Gabon El Salvador Tunisia Dominican Republic Vietnam Mexico Peru Saudi Arabia Cuba Armenia Guyana Suriname Namibia Paraguay Kazakhstan Republic of Macedonia Malaysia Ukraine South Africa Cyprus Albania Brazil Brunei Bahrain Senegal Ghana Belize Jamaica Trinidad Romania Kuwait Mongolia Bulgaria Croatia Panama Latvia Oman Greece United Arab Emirates Hungary Argentina Italy Poland Spain In addition, on the off chance we need fishing or merchant fleets, either as good guys to play, bad guys to pursue, or hapless bystanders to protect and/or not kill by accident, here are a few tables based on the largest fishing and merchant fleets in the world: Nations with Major Fishing Industries (i.e., Blue ships to protect or Red ships to sink or capture) Bangladesh Canada Chile China Iceland India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Mexico Myanmar Norway Peru Philippines Russia/USSR South Korea Taiwan Thailand United States Vietnam More Nations with Major Fishing Industries (i.e., Blue ships to protect or Red ships to sink or capture) Argentina Brazil Cambodia Denmark Ecuador Egypt France Ghana Iran Morocco Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Senegal South Africa Spain Tanzania Turkey United Kingdom Major Shipping Fleets (i.e., Blue ships to protect or Red ships to sink or capture) China Denmark Germany Greece Hong Kong India Iran Italy Japan Malaysia Norway Russia/USSR Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Switzerland Taiwan Turkey United Kingdom United States And a few more possible locations for scenarios... 20 Maritime Choke Points Bab el-Mandab (Gulf of Aden) Bosporus English Channel Lombok Strait (East of Java) Luzon Strait Makassar Strait (East of Borneo) Mozambique Channel Oresund (between Denmark and Sweden) Panama Canal Strait of Messina (South of Italy) Straits of Gibraltar Straits of Hormuz Straits of Malacca Suez Canal Sunda Strait (East of Sumatra) Taiwan Strait The Nine Degree Channel (Arabian Sea, north of Male) The Six Degree Channel (Andaman Sea, north of Sumatra) Torres Strait (North of Australia) Yucatan Channel (between Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean) 20 Troubled Seas Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Andaman Sea Arabian Sea Argentine Sea Baltic Sea Barents Sea Bering Sea Black Sea Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea East China Sea Labrador Sea Mediterranean Sea North Sea Red Sea Sea of Japan South China Sea Timor Sea Yellow Sea (An Exclusive Economic Zone might be the scene of all kinds of confrontations, any of which might escalate into a genuine conflict...) The Twenty Largest EEZs United States France Australia Russia United Kingdom New Zealand Indonesia Canada Japan Portugal Chile Brazil Kiribati Mexico Federated States of Micronesia Denmark Papua New Guinea Norway India Marshall Islands The Second Twenty Largest EEZs Philippines Solomon Islands South Africa Seychelles Mauritius Fiji Madagascar Argentina Ecuador Spain Maldives Peru China Somalia Colombia Cape Verde Iceland Tuvalu Vanuatu Tonga The Third Twenty Largest EEZs Bahamas Palau Mozambique Morocco Costa Rica Namibia Yemen Italy Oman Myanmar Sri Lanka Angola Greece Venezuela Vietnam Ireland Libya Cuba Panama Malaysia The Fourth Twenty Largest EEZs Nauru Equatorial Guinea Republic of Korea Thailand Egypt Turkey Jamaica Dominican Republic Liberia Honduras Tanzania Pakistan Ghana Saudi Arabia Nigeria Sierra Leone Gabon Barbados Côte d'Ivoire Iran 100 More EEZs and Nations with Troubled Borders Mauritania Comoros Sweden Senegal Netherlands Ukraine Uruguay Guyana North Korea São Tomé and Príncipe Samoa Suriname Haiti Algeria Nicaragua Guinea-Bissau Kenya Guatemala Antigua and Barbuda Tunisia Cyprus El Salvador Finland Bangladesh Taiwan Eritrea Trinidad and Tobago East Timor Sudan Cambodia Guinea Croatia United Arab Emirates Germany Malta Estonia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Belize Bulgaria Benin Qatar Republic of the Congo Poland Dominica Latvia Grenada Israel Romania The Gambia Georgia Lebanon Cameroon Saint Lucia Albania Togo Kuwait Syria Bahrain Brunei Montenegro Djibouti Lithuania Belgium Democratic Republic of the Congo Singapore Iraq Slovenia Jordan Bosnia and Herzegovina Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Azerbaijan Mongolia Chad Niger Mali Ethiopia Bolivia Zambia Afghanistan Central African Republic South Sudan Uzbekistan Zimbabwe Burkina Faso Uganda Laos Belarus Kyrgyzstan Nepal Tajikistan Malawi Serbia Bhutan Moldova Armenia Burundi Rwanda Macedonia Kosovo