Falklands in the Baltic

[wulfir]

Friends,

...this is an experiment.


The Soviet mission is to capture Gotland Island, the Swedish mission is to defeat the invasion force.


Both sides will need some sort of command structure.


Then, they will need to make plans for how they intend to go about solving the problems of capturing or defending the island. I will provide the frames, such as overall OOBs to be used, political considerations, etc.

I then want the players to build their battle plan(s).
What units attack/defend where, will airsupport be split up in many directions or concentrated, that sort of thing.

Based on this I will then in turn build the scenarios.



What everyone needs to understand is that there is a chance that some games will be grossly unfair. You will not know the details of the enemy OOB, and you will seldom know exaclty what you are facing. In fact, when playing you might end up paving the way for someone elses victory or defeat. Fortunes of war, eh...

I also want to build the progress of the campaign on the results of the games being fought. This means I will take into account losses inflicted, terrain lost, terrain won, and some other stuff.


In addition I intend to bring some "friction of war" into your battle plans, things beyond your control such as political developments, supply, naval actions etc will affect the ground war. Again, there are no guarantees that it will be entirely fair to both sides.

Hopefully, this will lead to some interesting gaming - and that is really the big reward. If you are concerned about your Bliz ladder score this is a gamble, you might get a couple of easy wins, you might get crushed. Of course nobody will be forced to continue if they don't like it, have computer or real life problems etc. If someone needs to quit during a game there will hopefully be someone from that team to jump in. If not, I will decide on the level of victory for the opponent, the forces lost for the drop-out's side and log the result against myself.