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Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/12/2005 3:51:25 PM

M4Jess

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Coming Soon~

Red Storm Rising

May 1949.

After the War to end all Wars, Europe has enjoyed nearly 30 years of peace.

Then,

Azerbaijani terrorists destroy a new oil-production facility in the Soviet Union, severely crippling Soviet oil production and threatening to wreck the Soviet economy. Facing a perceived need to make crippling concessions to the West to survive the crisis, Stalin chooses a different path: war. The general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) decides to seize the Middle East by force to secure a new source of oil; to prevent the Westeren Allied Committee combined reaction, they launch a special operation to split the Westeren Allied Committee by making it appear as if Germany launched an unprovoked terrorist attack on the U.S.S.R.
Unfortunately, the operation has limited success: the coming Soviet attack on Germany is detected a few days in advance, giving the Westeren Allied Committee time to start mobilization, and providing sufficient evidence to prevent the fracturing of Westeren Allied Committee (Greece is successfully convinced that this is a "German-Russian disagreement" and Turkey is not willing to enter yet either). The war quickly becomes a meat-grinder in Germany: The Westeren Allied Committee forces slowly give ground with terrible losses on both armies.
One of the strategic masterstrokes of the Soviet Union's opening moves in the war is their seizure of Iceland, destroying the American air and naval base at Keflav�k. This enables the Russian Navy to patrol the Atlantic undetected. The Soviet Navy becomes an offensive weapon, and the U.S.S.R. seriously damages the Westeren Allied Committee�s war effort by damaging resupply convoys coming from North America.
In Germany, the battle becomes a war of attrition that the Soviets expect to win, having greater reserves of men and material. The Westeren Allied Committee holds the U.S.S.R. forces to small but continual advances only through the profligate expenditure of every weapon at hand.

You will fight Naval, Air and Ground War as the might of the Russian Bear!!

Here Starts a

RED STORM RISING

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 6:13:32 AM

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Looks interesting, but haven't I heard the background somewhere else before?

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 1:37:12 PM

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Blimey,

The West won't stand a chance, what with all those Hips, Hinds, Floggers, Badgers & Saggers

Cheers!

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 2:07:19 PM

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1992 I think.

VERY similar to the intro to Microprose's subsim REDSTORM RISING

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 2:24:29 PM

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Based on Tom Clancy's book

Jess

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 2:39:20 PM

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Jess

The Gripping Computer Simutation.

Based On The #1 Best-Selling Book By Tom Clancy

That's right of the games box

Rick White.

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 2:50:41 PM

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quote:

The Gripping Computer Simutation.

Cool! Never played it, but sounds like I need to check it out. As noted my camp will be a 1949 version

Jess

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 3:02:57 PM

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Jess

It plays best if you kept one of your old machines, still running dos.

It's only on 3 1/2" & 5 1/4" that I know of.

Rick White

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/13/2005 6:54:50 PM

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Guys,

The play of the book of the film of the game.....

it was all based on 'Harpoon' the classic WW3 sea/air strategy game.

Check this out for more info http://edladner.home.infionline.net/hullfaq.htm

Red Storm Rising...an essential read, read it 5 or 6 times now and still find the initial Russki assault on Iceland fantastic.

Anyone not read it?

Cheers!

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/14/2005 4:41:10 PM

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ok then!

I have the outline complete now, looks like a 20 scenario camp....!

I will post the outline this weekend. As a note, I am leaning toward a deferent type of campaign, because the scenarios will jump from Europe to the Atlantic and Iceland and back on or about the same time frame, having a �Core� force jump all around would not be very realistic. Therefore the core force will only be a HQ unit set up in an obscure corner of the map and only be used in the Europe area of operations. This way, the storyline and scenarios can be followed as a �Linked� scenario campaign rather than a base core force campaign. There will be a few key figures in each theater based on the book. It also looks like a custom OOB might be in order.

Thoughts?

Jess

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RE: Red Storm Rising 1949 - 1/14/2005 7:09:16 PM

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ORIGINAL: Danny Boy

Guys,

The play of the book of the film of the game..... it was all based on 'Harpoon' the classic WW3 sea/air strategy game.

Check this out for more info http://edladner.home.infionline.net/hullfaq.htm

Red Storm Rising...an essential read, read it 5 or 6 times now and still find the initial Russki assault on Iceland fantastic.

Anyone not read it?

Cheers!

Actually, the game Hapoon was in existence as a US Navy officer training aid in the mid-80s. I was responsible for the maintenance on the three TRS-80 consoles that ran it for the officers on my boat, the USS ARKANSAS. I got to play it late at night...it was a referee-style simulation, with a RED and BLUE console attached to the MASTER console. The referee set up the game specs, and the players only saw what would normally have been revealed in real life. Around 1987, Larry Bond, the creator of this program, put out a miniatures rule set based on this computer simulation. He called it Harpoon; Tom Clancy, in collaboration with Bond, used the Harpoon rules to wargame the various battles in his book.

At one time I owned the miniatures rules set, as well as a number of US and Soviet naval miniatures. Boy, I miss gaming in Combat Information Center while in port, using the plot table to fight WWIII!

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