File Name: Bullying the G-20 Brisbane Summit, November 2014. Historical scenario/Alternate history scenario.

File Submitter: broncepulido

File Submitted: 14 Nov 2014

File Category: WestPac

 

 

Bullying the G-20 Brisbane Summit, November 2014. Historical scenario/Alternate history scenario.

 

A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Western Pacific Battleset WestPac and the HCDB-140909 1980-2015 era Platform Database.

 

Image: Varyag in 2009, from Wikipedia Commons. Title: Russia will celebrate Pacific Fleet Day on May 21. The Guards guided-missile cruiser Varyag underway at sea. RIA Novosti. Author Vitaliy Ankov.

 

This scenario is designed to be played mostly from the Blue/Allied side or from the Red/Russian side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red/Russian side.

 

From the Cold Ward end the President of Russia Vladimir Putin was working for years in a plan to recover the Russian Empire and later Soviet territories, to reinstitute the greatness of his Russia, and to guarantee his passage on the History as savior of the Rodina.

After provoked from May 2014 the Crimea, Ukraine, Donetsk, Baltic States, Swedish submarine incursion and multiple overflies with military warplanes, it's time to do some unrest on the G-20 leaders meeting in the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia Also they don't want befriend him, another time!

Just on 12 November 2014, three days before the summit start, was detected a Russian task force centered on the missile cruiser Varyag in the Coral Sea, southwards and without clear declared intentions.

After the last weeks Russian provocations, it's time to wait for the worse and perhaps to settle a limit and uphold it, by all the means necessary.

 

Enrique Mas, 13 November 2014.

 

 

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This original news report inspired me to design this scenario: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/russia-sends-warships-towards-australia-before-g20-meeting-20141112-11lc4z.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPOILER ALERT:

Historical Russian Ships on the Task Force Brisbane:

Varyag, Slava-class CG cruiser.

Marshal Shaposhnikov, Udaloy-class DD destroyer.

Yaroslav Mudry, Neustrashimyy-class FFG frigate.

Boris Butoma, Boris Chilikin-class AFS supply ship.

Undentified ocean-going ATF tug, perhaps MB-92 or MB-93: http://www.russian-ships.info/eng/support/project_pe65.htm

 

Australian ships:

HMAS Stuart and HMAS Paramatta, both ANZAC-class FFG unmodified frigates (at this time only HMAS Perth was modified with CEA-FAR phased array radar).

AO HMAS Sirius added to the chase: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/latest/a/25509675/russian-ships-a-show-of-strength/

Oh, and as deducted on the scenario, the today news reports say the AP-3C Orion are as predicted on the scenario provisionally deployed to Amberley!

File modifications 15 November 2014:

- Light text changes: Putin will attend the Summit, but will he lure the other world leaders on the cage?

- Light changes in the ship formations, reducing range circles (more about sonabuoys use in other post).

- MH-60R replaced by SH-60B-2. The Australian MH-60R will be in service only from 2015 (also discovered Australian SH-60B-2 and AP-3C are not and will not equipped with MU-90, they keep the old Mk46 Mod5. See separate post on the HCDB section forum).

- Added HMAS Sirius and HMAS Sydney to the Australian forces, as reported here:

http://www.news.com.au/national/third-australian-warship-sent-to-halt-russian-flotilla-bound-for-g20-in-brisbane/story-fncynjr2-1227122396768

As predicted on the modified scenario script 9 hours ago, Putin quits prematurely the Brisbane Summit (Has played decoy actually, the missiles will come the next hours??? hahahaha):

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/putin-to-quit-g20-summit/1474724.html

The tug Fotiy Krylov is in the DB if you wanted to use him in this scenario.

Modifications 25 November 2014:

 

At Brad's sugestion, generic Tug (ocean going) (her previous identity as MB-93 was only my informed guess) replaced by historical present Foty Krylov.

 

At Russian Ships Info:

http://www.russian-ships.info/eng/rescue/project_5757.htm

 

About her historical presence in the operation:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/russian-warships-heading-for-australia-as-putin-prepares-to-attend-brisbane-g20-summit-9855308.html

 

Also light modification in Red Victory conditions, now Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre counts in the victory conditions as "Base", and not as "Armour" (In the first scenario sketch I employed another type of target to represent it, a bunker perhaps, but then it failed to be showed in the map, when is clearly a known and fixed place. I did replace it by a "Large Building" (classified as "Base" and not as "Armoured") to keep it present all time on the map,but I didn't change it on the Victory Conditions).