A Challenge for Suhiir

[wulfir]

Call to arms, Suhiir!
...and a Tip of the hat for the help with my setup (it has proven to be quite a challenge to take that d#%n airfield.

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The file below includes a small campaign, using campaign slot 30.
It is set up for about a dozen scenarios.
As of now only one scenario is included.

If you accept the challenge play the scenario and save the game on the last turn, before it ends showing you the end result. This is important. If you do this more battles can be added to the campaign...

The campaign uses Suhiir's modified OOB. If anybody wants to play this using the standard USMC OOB, either
a) Change the campaign settings to OPEN CORE and set build points equal to a reduced Bn, or
b) Post here and I'll set it up with the standard OOB. It takes only 10 mins.



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Meantime, just after midnight on 14 August, a staff officer found Commander, North Norway, in a village close to the E6, to give him the news:

”The Marines have arrived, Sir.”

”The British Commando? Surely, they have already moved south.”

”No, Sir, the Americans. They are landing now at Trondheim”

”With their air wing?”

”With everything.”


- - - From the book The Third World War: The Untold Story by John Hackett.

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Background: From day one of WWIII COMNON (Commander, North Norway) has been fighting a complex sea/air and land/air battle against the Soviet forces invading Norway. It has been a trying time where the allied forces have been steadily pushed back. For various reasons the intended USMC reinforcement to Norway were delayed, but now with the arrival of the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, a powerful formation more like a small division than a brigade, it is believed an important tactical riposte can be achieved.

If you accept the challenge you will take command of a Marine Rifle Battalion, at the start reduced to two reinforced companies as some units have been temporarily detached for a different mission.

Your initial mission is to counterattack a Soviet force of unknown size near Korgen, Norway.
It is belived the Soviet force is depleted and that it has outrun its own heavy artillery support.