JANUARY 16, 1991 DEFCON ONE - GIUKBB01 By JIVA SYSOP SIX MONTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SCENARIO It was a grand sight to see. The brilliant sunrise was coming up over Breidhifjordhur bay. It's crimson red glow shining off the slick ships making up the amphibious task force for operation NAUMACHY. Admiral Gary "Bandog" Levine's eyes glowed along with the scene before him from the bridge of the Iowa. The rising sun coated everything with a tint of red and orange. He felt awed by the mix of the old battlewagon from WWII with the modern Tico's filling the bay for a practice invasion of Iceland. Admiral Levine's trance was broken by the loud ringing alarm sounding General Quarters declaring "this is not a drill," and by the flurry of activity on the bridge. The OD LT. Tom Konzical rushed over and handed him a dispatch. Levine grabbed the paper from the shaking Lieutenants hand and saw fear in his eyes. He understood why as he read the lines before him. Defcon One was declared after the Warsaw Pact forces attacked all along the front from the Med to Norway in a surprise attack. The admiral gave the orders for the fleet to prepare to get underway, and for all the ships Captains to report for a situation meeting. The room was noisy and crowded with all the ships captains and their assistants trying to figure out what was happening; when the "Bandog" entered the room it became eerily quiet. "Gentleman" he announced, "We have received our orders from NATO. It seems that the Russians have decided to make all of Europe a Marxist state. To insure a breakout into the Atlantic they have started to build their own airfield on a Norwegian Island about 30 miles west of Tromos. They have landed a large contingent of engineers to build around the clock.. A large airfield that will handle any plane in their inventory. It grows larger day by day.. and as it grows.. more planes are landing. Our orders are to prevent the ruskies from breaking out into the Atlantic by confronting any air power projected from the new airfield; and sinking any naval units found in the Norwegian Sea. Also the amphib task force will land at Tromso and advance on the airfield and take it out!!!". "Now I will hand you over to Commander Gary "Bucephalus" Miller who will fill in the details." Admiral Levine stepped down and rushed out leaving a vacuum of silence and anticipation. The void was quickly filled by the tall and smart looking commander Gary Miller. "Listen up gents this is the order of our battle. Captain Mark "Roinous" Estes you are to take your Roosevelt and go on station east of Jan Mayen at 71 deg 5 min North/5 deg 8 min west. From here you will provide air cover over the Norwegian Sea and take out anything in the air and on the water that comes within your range. The Mississippi - Leyte Gulf - Dale - Coontz are to escort you and remain on station as support. Proceed at flank speed. . . Captain Ira Gluck and his AOR Milwaukee is to follow behind the Roosevelt and catch up with it; then remain on station to supply the operations.. The Biddle - Wainwright - Hyler are to escort the Milwaukee. Captain Gluck will be traveling at slower speed than the Roosevelt so will meet it on station. The Admiral's Iowa and the rest of the amphib fleet with it's escorts are to proceed to Vagar and remain there for 12 hours to pick up additional troops and munitions for the landing at Tromso. After gearing up at Vagar they will go to Tromso and land all ground forces and provide support for the taking of the airfield.... Last but not least the LA sub Croton will proceed directly towards Tromso and take out any naval units protecting the approach to the airfield." Well Harpooner's now you have your orders. If you follow them to the letter and destroy everything that gets in your way. You will achieve Total Victory conditions. This scenario is made to be played from the NATO side only. It is a large scenario and will most likely run a little slow when you have many aircraft up in the air. It is large enough that it will take an extra 90 seconds or so to warm up, and get going after the Groups have shown up on the maps at the beginning. Also set your options to avoid the ships running aground at the beginning to accommodate the fleet in the bay until you have split them into the appropriate groups as per orders. This scenario was made for the six month anniversary of the Scenario Warehouse BBS and is a production of the BBS. It is dedicated to all those whom have helped the BBS during the last six months with a special dedication to Gary Miller and Gary Levine who has staunchly defended the Scenario Warehouse against incoming missiles. Well Gary it is time to show us your stuff. Can you gain total victory conditions? Notes: This user edited scenario originated from the Scenario Warehouse BBS; operating it's terminal at 718-746-7466 in ANSI emulation (2400/1200/300 N-8-1) using A WWIV TERMINAL VERSION 4.12 Sometimes you may find Procomm Plus terminal up when sysop is conducting other business. However this terminal also accesses the directory with the HARPOON SCENARIO WAREHOUSE files. On July 16, 1990 the Harpoon Scenario Editor BBS Warehouse started where a central point could be maintained for the uploading and downloading of the Harpoon Game edited scenarios. As interest and usage of the BBS grew. The BBS improved it's service and terminal to a full fledge BBS on October 2, 1990. The BBS will continue to work on improving the terminal and services as long as interest continues for Harpoon scenarios. The true test of success will be the users and plenty of uploads of scenarios made by members with the Scenario Editor. The Scenario Warehouse is connected to the WWIV Network which allows it's members to send E-mail to each other via a local WWIV BBS in the Network; our node number is @7851. We also host the "HARPOONER'S SCENARIO WHAREHOUSE" Bulletin Board sub. This is the place where all Harpooner's can exchange ideas and tactics. Ask your local WWIV BBS which is in the Network to subscribe to it. Tell the SYSOP to contact JIVA at 1@7851 on the Net. This way you will be able to post messages and read up on whats happening just by a local call. For more info contact JIVA the SYSOP at the Warehouse. Feel free to call at anytime to share ideas and find information to help you in playing a better game. Upload any scenario you wish to share and download some more for your pleasure. You don't need to upload a scenario to call. Feel free to share this scenario with others or upload to another BBS. The Scenario Warehouse urges you to give feedback to the author of any scenario you play; whether it is positive or negative, by using the BBS E-Mail. This will help the person to improve his/her scenario creation and to make any changes which need to be made. When you connect to the BBS and you are a first time user type in "NEW" and follow the prompts for initialization as a member. Veterans of the original Pro-Comm Plus terminal also will have to initialize onto the new WWIV terminal. Correspondence can be mailed to 19-21 Clintonville ST., Whitestone, New York 11357 To save callers time on line; the following files have been made: GIUKTEXT.ZIP/ARC - File containing all text files for scenarios to be played under the GIUK battleset. NACVTEXT.ZIP/ARC - File containing all text files for scenarios to be played under the NACV battleset. HARPBB.TXT - File containing information regarding the Harpoon Edited Scenario BBS. BBGUIDE.ZIP/ARC - file containing the WWIV terminal manual explaining the commands and menus used. To insure ease of use by the Harpoon Warriors certain guide lines have been developing by the users. The guide lines so far, which have been developed are as follows: 1. There should be an ASCII text file associated with the scenario. This text file should have the victory conditions and some background information and anything else you wish to add. 2. The text file should have the same file name as the scenario file and file extension of .TXT. Include your name and BBS# so feedback can be mailed to you via E-Mail on the BBS. 3. The scenario file name should take up the whole eight character field with the first four letters identifying the associated battleset (i.e.; GIUK NACV MEDC), and the appropiate file extension corresponding to the battleset. 4. When possible leave an E-mail message on the BBS; giving some feed back on how the scenario played. This will enable the author to improve their future scenarios or correct any deficiencies in existing ones. Address the messages to the author. The files on the BB right now are in a compressed format to save on-line time and cost to callers. The compression utilities used are the ZIP and ARC. To upload you needn't do it in the compressed format. We will do it here if you have no compression facilities. You may also download the zip compression utility from the BBS.. filename - PKZ110.exe.