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wildcolonialboy -> Royal Navy submarines attack Soviet convoys (10/24/2017 10:16:36 PM)
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Hello
I decided to create a scenario after being inspired by a documentary film on YouTube, a two-part filmed in 1983 aboard the Royal Navy nuclear hunter-killer SSN, HMS Warspite**. The documentary was made in the early 1980s and it depicts a large NATO naval exercise called 'Ocean Safari' where the Warspite is playing the "Orange" team (the Soviets). It really is quite fascinating watching them dodging various helicopters and naval patrols, and undertaking sub-Harpoon and torpedo attacks on convoys.
I also quite like that the submarine has a part-analog, part-digital feel. It's not a CIC that looks like the bridge of the starship Enterprise, it really does look like a submarine. I'm not allowed to post links until seven days after my tenth post, so if you would like to see this documentary if you search "HMS Warspite nuclear submarine" on YouTube the two episodes (each around 30 minutes) will appear in the list third from the top.
So I created a scenario where the Icelandic government is overthrown by communists, and they throw NATO out of their country. They then ask for aid from Moscow. Your job is to sink the Soviet cargo ships while avoiding their patrols. I really wanted a scenario that evokes the sort of cold, stormy North Sea a bit like Hunt for the Red October. It's also interesting because the nuclear submarines of the early-1980s Royal Navy still had unguided Mark 8 "straight runners" (which were used in the Falklands War to sink the Arg. cruiser General Belgrano; they were perceived as more reliable than the wire-guided Tigerfish).
Anyway, I'm not really sure if there's a way for me to submit my scenario before my seven days after ten posts is up. Any ideas?
**Why does the Royal Navy have the best ship names? Names like Conqueror, Thunderer, Ambush, Ajax, Temaraire, Swiftsure, Turbulent, Spartan, Valiant and Centaur
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