                            GIUKRW05

                          A Spearhead

       A Harpoon user edited scenario made with Scenario Editor v1.1 

                  By Bashi Bazouk HSWBBS #3@7851


Dateline - January 23, 1995

0700 Hours:

Japan - Sakishima Islands - Miyako Island - Hirara - Pinda - 
Emperor's winter retreat.

     The Emperor Yoshikazu entered his large office to start a new day with great anticipation.  He was hosting the second annual Pan Pacific Summit (PPS) on economic and military matters.  In just two hours he will open the summit the 68 Pacific member nations.  Encompassing both hemispheres of the Pacific, it is the largest regional geo-political organization in the world.   The PPS was the brainchild of the U.S. President Colin Powell as an extension of George Bush's New World Order point of light.  

	The emperor sits down at his desk over looking the South China Sea to read the daily security brief on the international situation.  Intelligence indicates a large Russian invasion fleet in the Norwegian Sea, with all indications of invading Iceland.  Human intelligence indicates the Russians will conduct training exercises in the Norwegian Sea and strike during the upcoming sun spot activity, which is expected to be severe, hindering the NATO communications and surveillance.  The royal science and astronomy foundation predicts the sun spot activity to begin sometime today.  When the emperor finishes reading the brief, he smiled and thought to himself.  "This will be a very interesting day"

0705 hours:

Belgium - Brussels - NATO Command - Duty Officer's office

	Lt Carl C. Norman just finished sending out the enhanced readiness alert to all NATO commands via landline communications.  This due to the loss of satellite communications caused by excessive sun spot activity.  The situation board shows the last known positions of the Russian training exercise (code name Triangle) taking place in the Norwegian Sea.  The Norwegian Sea is devoid of all NATO surface units due to the sizing down of the West forces.  They now depend on their submarine fleet as first line of defense.  They will now have to provide tracking information on Triangle until satellite links can be restored.  Lt Norman sends a dispatch to NATO COMSUBATL ordering surveillance to be initiated.

0710 Hours

England - Aberdeen - COMSUBATL 

	Cmdr Bill "Rosolio" Keasler looked over the disposition of his sub fleet in the Norwegian Sea.  He was trying to see which units could intercept Triangle.  Groups AOU - AJU - AFU -ABU were all within the vicinity of Triangle's last known position.  Cmdr Keasler sent out a flash message to each group with instructions to track the Triangle exercise.


Author's note:

	Well gents this is an action packed scenario.  The variable starting points of the Russian groups will make this scenario almost completely different each time.  Many units and groups have various percentage probabilities of inclusion into the scenario, which gives it its diversity.  This also gives it a large estimate memory figure.  Do not let this discourage you from playing.  This is only an estimate and it is based upon the fact if all groups and units happened to come into play during the scenario.  Average actual memory needed will be around 570K
	
	You will most likely have contact right near the beginning.  You will also have the chance to make minimum victory conditions within the first half hour of game time if you are lucky and sharp.  It is even possible to get Total Victory if you know what you are doing and are quick on your feet.   This scenario is made to be played from the NATO side only... There will be a Russian version in the near future 
(GIUKRW06).

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ANALYZING VICTORY CONDITIONS:
NATO MINIMUM VICTORY CONDITION (OR) 1:
   1 Kiev carrier must be killed.
NATO TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (OR) 1:
   3 Kiev carriers must be killed.
NATO TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (OR) 2:
   2 Ivan Rogov ships must be killed.
NATO MINIMUM VICTORY CONDITION (OR) 2:
   99 planes must be killed.
NATO MINIMUM VICTORY CONDITION (OR) 3:
   4 subs must be killed.
NATO MINIMUM VICTORY CONDITION (OR) 4:
   1 base must be damaged at 30%.
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