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September 1, 1991        MEDCBB01.ZIP Version 3.3
                     " The New World Order Explodes"
          The One-Year HSWBBS-USA Anniversary Celebration Scenario

                       By JIVA - SYSOP - HWSBBS-USA

     Well it has been just over one year of operations for the HSWBBS. We
release a anniversary celebration scenario every six months (except for
the one month release). Each has been in a different Battleset released by
Three Sixty. With luck each six month HSWBBS celebration release will
involve a different battleset. This scenario involves the MEDC. And is
designed to be played from the Blue side.

      Designing a scenario for the MEDC turned out to be the most
challenging and difficult of the three Battlesets. The NACV and GIUK
involves purely hypothetical events of the Cold War turning hot. The MEDC
covers a geopolitical arena with numerous ongoing historical conflicts; which
simmer and break out as the balance of powers change. Except for the close
proximity to the Desert Shield/Storm AO no theme could be found for the
scenario to evolve around. Especially since Desert Storm was already a page
in military history by the time the scenario was being designed. However more
history started to enfold itself on the newspaper headlines; within the
geopolitical area covered by the MEDC battleset. Every day headlines started
telling the story how the many different ethnic peoples were adjusting to new
found freedoms caused by the crumbling of the Russian empire and communism.
As with all people; passions and the human condition leads to military
conflict. And so it is here where our story of the "The New World Order
Explodes" begins. Our story  begins with actual headlines and stories from
the newspapers and then continues into what may be a real possible military
conflict. Enjoy yourself. (Author's - note the following headlines are
actual; taken from local papers July 1991 through September 5th 1991.. after
that date they were improvised to complete our story)

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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE  July 1991   page 16-17   "WORLD SITREP"

#2 - ALBANIA - After 52 years, diplomatic relations with United States..
Widespread unrest, some 20,000 flee to Italy; government ordered ships 
offshore, inaccessible to refugees... fighting/violence in wake of recent 
election killed several. 

#7 -  GIBRALTAR - Peace of the Rock: 287 years of British rule end, 
security given to local Gibraltar Regiment.

#8 - GREECE - Police captured Abdulrahim Khaled, Palestinian convicted in 
absentia by Italy for 1985 hijacking of Achille Lauro. Italy wants
extradition.

#12 - ITALY - Palestinians Youssuf Sa'ad and Mohammed Issa Abbas, convicted
in Achille Lauro hijacking, released for good behavior, deported to Algeria.

#13 - JORDAN - Supplied munitions to Iraq during war, still being
considered for $27 million in U.S. military aid.

#14 - YUGOSLAVIA - Serbia: intermittent revolts - Croatia: intermittent
revolts.

#28 - USSR - Stashing 10,000-plus modern tanks, 4,000 armored vehicles,
20,000-plus artillery pieces behind Ural mountains to avoid destruction under
CEF treaty.... Some 20% of Soviet draftees in autumn 1990 call-up failed to
show up.... prices on food and consumer goods double/triple in one jump; 
effect mitigated - few goods available anyway.

NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 1, 1991     

(Page one headlines) 
BUSH AND GORBACHEV SIGN PACT TO CURTAIL NUCLEAR ARSENALS; JOIN IN CALL FOR 
MIDEAST TALKS.

(Page A3)
CROATIA OFFERS PEACE PLAN TO SERB REBELS - dateline July 31 Zagreb - In 
an effort to avert all-out civil war, the Yugoslav republic of Croatia has 
drawn UP a peace plan offering its Serb minority key concessions it had 
sought, including home rule, control over the local police and greater 
political power..... it remained unclear whether the Serb rebels, who have 
steadily wrested territory from the Croatian forces in recent weeks would 
accept the deal.  "They expect to win on the battlefield... they won't 
accept any negotiation."..... The more outspoken Serbs in Croatia and the 
Serb republic  have said they will accept nothing less than a redrawing of 
Yugoslavia's borders.  ....  Croatia's peace efforts come against the 
backdrop of a Serb offensive particularly in the Krajina region. In the 
last two weeks, Croatian defenders have been forced to relinquish village 
after village to the Serb guerrillas...

EUROPEANS TRY TO EASE CROATIA CRISIS - dateline July 31 Paris - Having 
helped negotiate a cease-fire in Slovenia this month, the European 
Community now hopes to bring an end to the fighting in Croatia without 
having to assume the risks of sending a peacekeeping mission to 
Yugoslavia. Many European officials believe that even if Yugoslavia 
sought an international peacekeeping force, the Soviet Union might block 
such a move for fear of setting a precedent of foreign involvement at a 
time when it is wrestling with it's own rebel republics from the Baltic to 
the Ukraine

(Page A8)
GUNMAN KILL 6 LITHUANIAN BORDER GUARDS - dateline July 31 Vilnius - Six
Lithuanian border guards were killed today and two were critically wounded
in a machine gun attack on a customs post near the breakaway republic's
border with Soviet Byelorussia.... The Lithuanian authorities said the
identity of the attackers was not known. The customs stations, symbols of
Lithuania's claim to independence from the Soviet Union, have been frequent
targets of violent raids by Soviet troops and "black beret" police units
loyal to Moscow. Soviet Union's TASS announced that the USSR will not sit
idle while any foreign intervention of forces in it's sphere of influence...
this in the European announcement of intentions to send forces to Yugoslavia
to help bring peace. Swift and severe consequences will befall any forces
into their regions!

NEW YORK TIMES - Wednesday - August 7, 1991     

(Page one headlines) 
ARAFAT SAYS HE MUST PICK PALESTINIAN DELEGATION

(Page A3)
EUROPEANS PRESS FOR YUGOSLAV SETTLEMENT - Dateline August 6 The Hague -  
Fearful that Yugoslavia's violent ethnic conflict could reverberate well 
beyond it's borders, foreign ministers of the European Community called 
today for wider international pressure to bring peace to the troubled 
Balkan nation... while France and other community members urged that a 
Western European buffer force be sent to separate the warring Yugoslav 
factions.... Some European officials fear that since many people of 
Hungarian and Albanian descent live in Yugoslavia, a full scale war could 
spread to other nations as they seek to protect their minorities in 
Yugoslavia.... A British official said that the security council might 
explore ways to intervene if the fighting intensifies and threatens other 
nations.

NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 8, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
ALLIES SAY IRAQ IS SCAVENGING MUNITIONS IN KUWAIT

FRAGILE TRUCE IN YUGOSLAVIA -  THE FIGHTING WANES, BUT HATREDS SMOLDER

12 DIE AS THOUSANDS TRY TO FLEE ALBANIA

(Page A8)
KOHL THREATENS SERBIA OVER CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS  Dateline August 7 Berlin 
- As domestic pressure mounted for full recognition of Yugoslavia's break 
away republics, Chancellor Helmut Kohl threatened Serbia today with economic
sanctions and acceptance of the independence of Croatia and Slovenia if
cease-fire violations continue.

SHAKY YUGOSLAV TRUCE - diplomatic silence suggests that no one in Zagreb 
or elsewhere is ready to solve Yugoslav quarrels.

(Page A12)
TURKS ATTACK SEPARATIST KURDS IN NORTH IRAQ

IRAQIS SAID TO RETRIEVE ARMS IN KUWAIT -  Dateline August 7 Kuwait City -  
The Iraqi military, in violation of the cease-fire agreement, has made 
several night raids into Kuwait to retrieve stockpiles, including Silkworm 
missiles, left behind during their retreat, allied officials here say.

NEW YORK TIMES - Friday - August 9, 1991     

(Page A3)
BANKRUPTCY SEEN THREATENING THE SOVIET PARTY

ITALY MOVES TO STEM WAVE OF ALBANIANS -  Another huge wave of Albanian 
migrants washed onto Italy's Adriatic shores on Thursday seeking economic 
haven, but instead finding edgy police officers and a hard-line Government 
determined to send them back home. The police opened fire in clashes with 
the emigres...

(Page A5)
YUGOSLAVIA AGREES TO MORE TRUCE OBSERVERS - Dateline August 8 Prague -   
Yugoslavia agreed today to accept new international observers to help 
monitor the fragile cease-fire that went into effect on Wednesday morning.

CROAT REJECTS SERB DEMANDS - Dateline August 8 Belgrade - A senior
official in the republic of croatia today flatly rejected the major
demands of the Serbian rebels as the tenuous cease-fire in the fighting
here was breached by the death of Croatian national guardsman....
According to Croatian accounts, one guardsman was killed today and three
were wounded when motor fire struck their positions near the village of
Gredjani, south of Zegreb.

AMERICANS ADVISED TO LEAVE - Dateline August 8 Washington -  The State 
Department issued a travel advisory today urging Americans citizens to 
leave the breakaway republics of Croatia and Slovenia as soon as possible.

NEW YORK TIMES - Tuesday - August 13, 1991     

(Page A5)
U.N. USING U.S. SPY PLANES TO MONITOR IRAQI ARMS

(Page A6)
YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC FEARS IT COULD BECOME PAWN - Dateline August 10 Sarajevo 
- If all out civil war breaks out in Yugoslavia, the republic of Bosnia 
and Herzegovinia would lie squarely in its path, a victim of its volatile 
ethnic mix of Serbs, Croats and Muslims.

PRISONER EXCHANGE FAILS  Dateline August 13 Belgrade - Serbs and Croats 
failed to make a planned exchange of 70 prisoners today, and Croatia 
blocked Yugoslav federal efforts to deploy cease-fire observers on it's 
territory.

NEW YORK NEWSDAY - Monday - August 19, 1991

(Page one headlines)
TASS REPORT: GORBY'S OUT - VEEP TAKES OVER, DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY

NEW YORK NEWSDAY - Wednesday - August 21, 1991

(Page one headlines)
YELSTIN SUPPORTERS, TANKS SKIRMISH. DEFIANT LEADER DIGS IN AGAINST 
POSSIBLE MOSCOW ATTACK BY COUP FORCES

(Page 4-5)
3 DIE IN SKIRMISH AT YELSTIN STRONGHOLD - With anti-government 
demonstrators in the streets of several soviet cities and the hard liners 
who overthrew Mikhail Gorbachev rumored in disarray, Red Army soldiers 
reportedly killed at least three dissidents early today outside Moscow 
stronghold of reformer Boris Yeltsin.

(Page 23)
PROGRESS IN YUGO TALKS - The quarreling leaders of Yugoslavia reached an
agreement in principle yesterday to continue talks on the country's future
as violence broke out anew in strife-torn Croatia and at least 10 people
were reported killed..... Early yesterday, Serbian guerrillas and the
Yugoslav federal army, in their boldest attack since ethnic war broke out
eight weeks ago in Croatia, bombarded the breakaway republic's fourth
largest city with mortar shells.

NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 22, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
GORBACHEV BACK AS COUP FAILS, BUT YELSTIN GAINS NEW POWER

(Page A5)
RIVALS TO ALLOW YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO FUNCTION - Dateline August 21 - 
Belgrade -- Gunfights erupted in the Yugoslav republics of Croatia again 
today as the country's leaders agreed for the first time to provide 
temporarily for the survival of the federal Government.... Rebel Serbs, 
reportedly with Yugoslav Army support, occupied the eastern Croatian 
panhandle... Fierce fighting has been reported almost daily... Yugoslav 
Air Force jets this morning strafed the village of Sarvas.... Gun battles 
and motor attacks were also rep[reported in Pakrac, Topusko, Darovar and 
other towns.... The Serbs in Croatia are in effect redrawing those borders 
with each advance they make.

NEW YORK TIMES - Saturday - August 24, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
YELSTIN IS ROUTING COMMUNIST PARTY FROM KEY ROLES THROUGHOUT RUSSIA; HE 
FORCES VAST GORBACHEV SHAKE-UP

(Page A3)
PHOTO OF IRAQI SUPER GUN RELEASED BY U.N. -  United Nations officials 
inspecting a long range Iraqi gun about 110 miles north of Baghdad. The 
170 foot barrel was designed to hurl chemical, biological or nuclear 
weapons up to 1,000 miles, striking targets in Tel Aviv or Teheran. The 
U.N. said experts would draw up plans for its demolition.

FIGHTING MAY UNRAVEL YUGOSLAV TRUCE - dateline August 23  Belgrade - The 
Yugoslav federal presidency's commission for monitoring an all but
disintegrated cease-fire in the war between rebel Serbs and Croatian
Government forces neared complete breakdown today as the warring sides
prepared for an escalation in the fighting..... Local Croatian and
Serb-rebel leaders in eastern Croatia today ordered a general mobilization
of all Croat and Serb men over 18 years old. Fearing an all out
intervention by the national army on behalf of the Serb rebels, Croatian
forces have rigged bridges with dynamite and built concrete bunkers.

GERMANY REJECTS A HOSTAGE-PRISONER LINK - dateline August 23 Beirut - In
a declaration that could complicate efforts to free the Western hostages
in Lebanon, the German Embassy in Beirut today rejected any link between
the release of the two German hostages and two Shite Muslim Lebanese
jailed in Germany on terrorism charges.

NEW YORK TIMES - Monday - August 26, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
SOVIETS' RUSH TOWARD DISUNION SPREADS; EUROPE EMBRACING BALTIC INDEPENDENCE

(Page A3)
NEW CROATIA STRIFE AFTER BONN WARNING - dateline August 25 Belgrade -  
Deadly clashes between Croatia's militia and the republic's rebel Serbs 
backed by the Yugoslav Army erupted today, hours after Germany's Foreign 
Minister warned the Yugoslav Government that Bonn may recognize Slovenia 
and Croatia if the violence does not cease soon..... an official German 
Government statement... blamed the Serb and communist-dominated Yugoslav 
National Army for frustrating the peace process in Yugoslavia.... 
Yugoslav Army tanks, river boats and MIG jets repeatedly struck targets 
near the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar soon after a mortar battle 
erupted this morning between Croatian and rebel Serb forces.... Croatia, 
which is seriously outgunned in it's struggle with the rebel Serbs and 
Yugoslav Army, and Slovenia have intensified their efforts to gain 
international support and diplomatic recognition..

(Page A6)
JORDANIAN KING CONFERS WITH ARAFAT - WHO WILL REPRESENT THE PALESTINIANS 
AT PEACE TALKS

TURK SAID TO ADMIT SLAYING 2 IN BBS CREW

(Page A10)
TWO MORE SOVIET REPUBLICS BEGIN INDEPENDENCE MOVES - DESPITE MISGIVINGS, 
THE UNION CONTINUES TO UNRAVEL

(Page A13)

IMMEDIATE U.S. RECOGNITION OF BALTIC STATES IS EXPECTED

NEW YORK TIMES - Tuesday - August 27, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
GORBACHEV PLEADS, BUT BREAKAWAY AREAS DEFY HIM, PUTTING FATE OF UNION IN 
DOUBT

COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE - SOVIET POLITICIANS AGREE THE UNION IS DYING BUT 
THERE IS NO ACCORD ON WHAT'S AHEAD

(Page A3)
U.N. OPTIMISTIC ON HOSTAGE RELEASE - dateline August 26 Geneva - The 
United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, said today that 
"we are moving at a good pace," after discussing the hostage issue with 
his chief trouble shooter who returned from a visit to Israel.

ATTACKS ON CROATIA CALLED WORST OF WAR - dateline August 26 Vinkovici -  
Yugoslav Army and rebel Serb forces pounded Croatian towns with artillery, 
mortar and air bombardments for hours today in the Yugoslav civil war's 
heaviest fighting to date..... Sketchy reports from Vukovar said that a 
hospital.... sustained serious damage in the 10 hour attack, during which 
air force jets reportedly dropped cluster bombs... Serb snipers and motor 
units also took aim in Vinkovici today and Sunday night, peppering the 
local hospital with bullets.... "With these attacks on Vukovar and Kijevo, 
given the magnitude of the operations and weaponry used, the Yugoslav Army 
has clearly taken over the military initiative in it's support for the 
creation of a Greater Serbia" said Milan Brezak, Croatia's Deputy Internal 
Affairs Minister.... Today's fighting appeared to be the most extensive 
use of the vast firepower that the Yugoslav Army, which is dominated by 
Serbs and Communists, has assembled on the Serbian side... since Croatia 
and Slovenia declared their independence on June 25.

(Page A7)
YELSTIN WARNS SECEDING REPUBLICS ABOUT ETHNIC RUSSIAN MINORITIES - 
dateline August 26 Moscow - The Russian federated republic issued a 
statement today, warning other Soviet republics that it would not let them 
secede from the union taking areas with heavy Russian populations with 
them. The leader of neighboring Kazakhstan then warned that border 
disputes could touch off a war between republics.

COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE: BUT WHAT TAKES ITS PLACE?

NEW YORK TIMES - Wednesday - August 28, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
GORBACHEV THREATENS TO QUIT UNLESS REPUBLICS FIND A WAY TO PRESERVE A 
MODIFIED UNION - LEADERS OF KEY REGIONS SAY THEY'LL WORK FOR REVISED 
FEDERATION

(Page A3)
CROATIA SAYS CALL-UP IS NEXT MOVE - dateline  August 27 Osijek - Leaders 
of Croatia's government said today that they expected to announce a
general mobilization within 24 hours that would oblige all healthy, adult
men to join forces that have been under heavy attacks from rebel Serbs and
the Yugoslav Army..... Local governments in some areas of Croatia have
already begun mobilizing men...... Mr. Tudjman warned last week that
Croatia would in effect, declare war on Yugoslavia in the National Army's
units in his republic are not returned to their barracks... by August 31.

(Page A11)
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES BALTIC STATES AS INDEPENDENT

NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 29, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
SOVIET LEADERS PRESS A REBELLIOUS UKRAINE TO REMAIN IN THE UNION - PLEA 
FOR SURVIVAL - FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL AREA SEEN AS VITAL TO ANY FORM OF 
UNITY

(Page A9)
YUGOSLAVIA TRUCE QUICKLY UNRAVELS - ARMY AND REBEL SERB FORCES BOMBARD 
CROATIAN TOWNS WITH GUN AND MOTOR - dateline August 28 Vukovar - The 
explosion of motor and cannon shells echoed through this Croatian town and 
surrounding villages again today despite a cease-fire agreement reached 
between army and Croatian leaders Tuesday night..... Yugoslav army jets 
bombed targets in and near the town, and a large column of tanks was 
reported to be moving toward it from across the Serbian border...

(Page A10)
KUWAIT SAYS IT THWARTED IRAQI INFILTRATION OF ISLAND - dateline August 28 
United Nations - Kuwait said today that it had thwarted an attempt by a 
group of heavily armed Iraqis to infiltrate the island of Bublyan, 
capturing at least 47 of them and sinking several boats carrying others... 
"It's not just a simple border violation" said the spokesman for the 
Kuwait mission to the United Nations, Masoud al Fehaid. "We look at it 
gravely.... we consider it a military attack"

NEW YORK TIMES - Monday - September 2, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
SOVIET UPHEAVAL INJECTS URGENCY INTO U.S DEBATE ON INTELLIGENCE.
SOVIET INSURGENTS FEAR HARD-LINERS PLAN NEW MOVES.

(Page A3)
LEBANON AND SYRIA SIGN WIDE SECURITY PACT dateline September 1 Beirut -  
The Lebanese Government signed an agreement with Syria today insuring day-
to-day coordination on all military and security matters, the exchange of 
intelligence information.... The pact allows either country to ask the 
other for military assistance if it's stability is challenged.

EUROPEANS ARRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA TO PROMOTE PEACE PLAN dateline September 1 
Zagreb - Officials of the European Community arrived in Belgrade today to 
advance a peace plan accepted by Croatia and Serbia that calls for teams 
of foreign observers to monitor a cease-fire.... But even as Foreign 
Minister Hans van den Broek of the Netherlands prepared to preside over 
the formal signing of the community's plan, there were reports of renewed 
clashes between Croats and Serbs...

ARMENIANS BACK CALL FOR U.N. ROLE IN AZERBAIJAN dateline September 1 
Yerevan, U.S.S.R. - Armenian officials today supported an American 
Congresswoman's call for a United Nations peacekeeping force in the disputed
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, where ethnic combatants have seized 
25 hostages...

NEW YORK TIMES - Wednesday - September 4, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
GORBACHEV AND YELTSIN, TENSE ALLIES, PUSH UNION PLAN - BOTH SAY FUTURE OF 
NATION RESTS ON PASSAGE

(Page A3)
EUROPE PLANS YUGOSLAV PEACE TALKS - MEETING TO OPEN SATURDAY, WITH A BRITON
AS THE CHAIRMAN

ISRAEL REQUESTS RAISES ISSUE OF SETTLEMENTS

(Page A7)
EXILED GENERAL URGES THE LEBANESE TO RESIST

(Page A10)
COMMUNIST IN SPAIN ROILED BY CALLS OF SOME TO DISBAND

NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - September 5, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
SOVIET CONGRESS RESISTS RESHAPED UNION - AGREES ONLY TO EXTENDED TALKS ON 
THE PLAN

(Page A3)
RENEWED FIGHTING WOUNDS YUGOSLAV ECONOMY dateline September 4 Sisak -
Fighting raged today across the secessionist republic of Croatia.... In
Bonn Germany's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, assailed the
Yugoslav Army action, warning Serbia in a speech to Parliament that
Germany would move to recognize Croatia unless fighting stopped. "The hour
of recognition nears with every shot your cannon and tanks fire"  Mr..
Genscher said, "We will not be able to stand by and watch any longer"...about
200 cease-fire observers were scheduled to reach Croatia today..... their
departure from the Netherlands was delayed because Zegreb's airport was shut
down this morning after skirmishes there between Croatian militiamen and army
soldiers.....

NEW YORK TIMES - Friday - September 6, 1991     

(Page one headlines)
ISRAELI'S PRIZE POSSESSION; SHEIK ABDUL KARIM OBEID IS ASSASSINATED BY CAR 
BOMB - 100 ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS ARE KILLED - SWIFT REVENGE IS 
PROMISED.

GERMANY KEEPS IT'S PROMISE;  1000 PARATROOPERS LAND AT ZAGREB AIRPORT TO 
ALLOW EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CEASE-FIRE OBSERVERS TO LAND - SUPPORTING NAVAL 
FORCE ENTERS ADRIATIC SEA

GORBACHEV AND YELSTIN SMILE OVER EXPECTED VOTE TOMORROW TO APPROVE THE NEW 
FEDERATED UNION PLAN - CONGRESS OF PEOPLES DEPUTIES TO MEET AND VOTE 
TOMORROW!

NEW YORK TIMES - Saturday - September 7, 1991     

THE WORLD'S NEW ORDER EXPLODES!!!! - RUSSIAN JETS DESTROY SUPREME 
PARLIAMENT BUILDING WHILE UNION VOTE IS TAKEN. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLES 
DEPUTIES ARE KILLED - FATE OF GORBACHEV AND YELSTIN UNKNOWN

RUSSIAN HARD LINERS DECLARE NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND SET UP NEW CENTRAL 
GOVERNMENT IN KIEV - MILITARY ATTACKS AND DESTROYS GERMAN NAVAL FORCE IN 
ADRIATIC SEA AND LANDS IT'S OWN AMPHIBIOUS FORCE IN SUPPORT OF YUGOSLAV 
COMMUNIST ARMY

AS ISRAEL ATTACKS PLO STRONGHOLDS IN LEBANON - IRAQ FIRES IT'S SUPER 
CANNON ON ISRAEL WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS. THOUSANDS REPORTED DYING OF GAS 
ATTACK.

SYRIA ADVANCES ARMIES ON ISRAEL - SAYING IT IS HONORING IT'S PACT WITH 
LEBANON

NEW YORK TIMES - Sunday - September 8, 1991     

WORLD TURMOIL CONTINUES ON DAY THREE OF WAR - PENTAGON PUTS FORCES ON 
DEFCON ONE STATUS - RESERVES ARE CALLED UP AGAIN - RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCE 
SENT TO SAUDI ARABIA - MIDEAST MOBILIZATION IS INITIATED - 1967 STYLE 
AIRLIFT TO ISRAEL IS BEGUN

IRAQI FORCES INVADE SAUDI ARABIA - IRANIAN MARINES INVADE THE UNITED ARAB 
EMIRATES BLOCKING OF THE PERSIAN GULF AND TRAPPING U.S. NAVAL FORCES 
INCLUDING A CARRIER.

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September 9 - Monday  0500 - Strait of Gibraltar - CV Independence  - 

      Captain Charles "Razzia" Rouhier just phoned the bridge and gave the
orders for a 24 hour general quarters watch to be set. As he walked to the
staff conference room.  He was thinking to himself. "How was the old
Independence going to get through this one. We were on our way to the yard
for the annual turndown and overhaul (me to retirement) while other ships
of the group were headed for SIMMA in Newport. The Independence was only
loaded with various aircraft being ferried back to the states for refitting
or retirement... we don't even have a full wing on board... but fate has
dealt us a new hand and mission!". As Charles Rouhier entered the darkened
staff room he noticed that everybody was engrossed in the S-2s brief, so he
signaled his XO LTCMDR Allen "Wombat" Wotherspoon (Wombat handle came from
his infamous furrowing out Iraqi tanks in Desert Shield/Desert Storm
conflict) to forestall formalities and took a seat in the last row without
anybody noticing. Razzia saw a projection map on the large wall screen
showing USSR broken into it's ethnic republic boundaries, and how intensely
his officers were listening to Ed "Sereno" Winsor the S-2... indicating that
they were ready to tackle their mission... it made Captain Rouhier feel good.

     Ed Winsor paused briefly to signal Rouhier that he acknowledges his
presence and thanks for not disturbing his brief; As large projected maps of
Russia, Mideast and Mediterranean flashed up behind him. Sereno.. as he
preferred to be called... continued; "NSA has indicated that the Russian
threat in the Med is not a strong one. Russia itself is split in two and a
good number of the hard line breakaway forces code named "Goblin" are engaged
with the reformist forces "Yankee" of the Russian republic approximately
along the 55th parallel to the Ural mountains.

 The greatest threat of Goblin is the massive forces of the Muslim republics
spreading south to join forces with the Iranians, Syrians and Iraqis; to
conquer the Arab states and control the oil fields of the mideast and destroy
Israel. The hard line breakaway government has set up in Kiev and is
controlled by the Ukrainian elite who were the original Russian polity. They
bombed the Supreme Soviet as they were to vote for the new democratic
federated republic plan pushed by Gorbachev and Yelstin. Both were killed in
the attack along with most of the elected Peoples Deputies. They aligned with
the Turkic and Muslim republics promising them rule over Turkey and the
Mideast. This will give them control over the rich agricultural and
industrial areas: along with the control over of the worlds oil supply. This
will give them a potent nation to continue on with the communist revolution
to conquer the world."

     The room is quiet and stuffy from all the intense concentration as the
projection screen explodes with a close up of the eastern Mediterranean
area including the Black Sea. The map dwarfs Sereno... as he continues; 
"Goblin has the Black Sea fleet under his control and approximately 70% of
the air force and 45% of the army. The fleet has broken out into the Med
and controls the eastern areas including the Adriatic Sea; after destroying
the German fleet and part of the Italian fleet which was deployed at the
time. They did this under the ploy of supporting the communist Yugoslav
Army after the Germans landed forces in Zagreb. Along the way they
co-ordinate with paratroop drops and took control of Cigli, Turkey and
Patrai, Greece. This gives air cover for the complete Black Sea fleet
breakout. Their initial fleet breakout has gone into the Adriatic Sea and
landed troops along with more co-ordinate paratroop drops taking control of
Sibenik and Rijeka/Yugoslavia along with Venice/Italy. Goblin has the
Croatian, German and Hungarians surrounded. It is expected that they will
advance once they have consolidated and gotten their air assets in place.
The Goblin air force includes all types of platforms since they control 70%
of the Russian original air force. You can expect any type of threat from
them."

     Everybody squints and rubs their eyes as the projection screen blanks
out and the overhead day lights comes back on. Sereno moves back to the
lectern and gives a final review.... "Gentlemen; Goblin right now is
consolidating his positions on the Med front.... ferrying massive amounts
of supplies and bringing in plenty of air assets to protect his flank.
To our advantage Goblin has very little Intel due to the fact many of the
facilities were in the hands of Yankee... and much of that was destroyed
in the bombing of Moscow and the Kremlin. He does not know what is out
there as a threat except what he can find with his air patrols and
submarine forces. So expect plenty of forward patrols in the air and
under the surface. Most of the fighting between Yankee and Goblin has
been done without much forward Intel and so the fighting is close.. 
slow... and fierce. On his eastern fronts through the Mideast he is
advancing very fast but with stiff resistance. You now have everything
as I know it... good luck my friends!"

     Captain Wotherspoon swiftly took Sereno's place. "People!!!... as of
0500 we have been put on 24 hour general quarters watch. Our mission
is code named "Kangaroo" has began. We have been given the privilege of
spearheading the Allied counter offensive to outflank Goblin's western
attack! Our mission objectives are two. One we will advance into the
eastern Med and stop the Black Sea fleet breakout then enter the Adriatic Sea
and land the marines at Rijeka, Yugoslavia. The Italian fleet out of Brindisi
port will run interference for us till we get on station. We will secure this
port to off load supplies and start a relief column to the besieged Germans
in Zegreb. This beach head will be the staging point for the southern pincher
drive into the Ukraine and onto Kiev. This will in effect split the Goblin
front into two. The objective is to isolate Kiev and besiege their political
and military center from their Muslim fiends in the East. Our second
objective is to draw in their air force draining it from the other fronts....
thus weakening them.... and allowing our forces to advance at the other
fronts. It is hoped that this will break the back of Goblin and force him to
surrender. Our orders are not to engage in hostile activities which will
bring other parties into the fight and expand the front we have to fight on.
However we have the right to defend ourselves as needed. The Med is full of
merchant ships so be careful. We are not to fire on any merchant ship of any
kind unless fired upon first. Gentlemen you are dismissed and may god be with
you.!!"

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ANALYZING VICTORY CONDITIONS:
BLUE TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (AND) 1:
   1 Merchant ship must be on station for 1 hrs, 30 min, 0 sec.
     at port Rijeka Yugoslavia ( Sevastopol )
BLUE TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (AND) 2:
   1 Tanker ship must be on station for 1 hrs, 30 min, 0 sec.
     at port Rijeka Yugoslavia ( Sevastopol ) 
BLUE TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (AND) 3:
   1 LST ship must be on station for 1 hrs, 30 min, 0 sec.
     at port Rijeka Yugoslavia ( Sevastopol )

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     Since we cannot change the base names in the Scenario Editor we will
have to use the following conversion chart below;

"TOPEL"      = Sibenik, Yugoslavia
"Murted      = Zagreb, Yugoslavia
"Sevestopol" = Rijeka, Yugoslavia
"El-Arish"   = Venice, Italy 
"Fiad"       = Budapest, Hungry
"Brindisi"   = Pescara, Italy
"Merzifon"   = Patrai, Greece

   Also note that the Red Merchant groups are included for affect to
simulate the busy shipping traffic found in the Med. So as per orders they
should not be fired upon unless one turns guns on your forces and fires.

   This scenario is a large one and may not run on old systems. The most
preferable system would be a 386 or 486 using DOS 5 memory manager (or
another of your choice to obtain maximum memory. A RAMDrive setup would
make things go a little faster. I have had this BETA tested a few times.
Depending on the start up configuration (there are thousands) you may get
a MEMORY HANDLE ERROR message within the first 30 minutes of game play. To
get around this try and keep your ASW patrols in the beginning of the game
to a minimum... also keep your air patrols to a minimum except where the
action is taking place. I found out to get around losing the game is to save
it very often in the beginning. When the MEMORY HANDLES message comes up just
restart and usually it doesn't come back. If using a RAMDrive the game save
routine is not very bothersome. Also it is advised not to go over a 1:5
compression setting during the earlier stages of the game. The BETA testers
found that they couldn't go above that setting for the first one third of the
game.

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