The Red Banner Northern Fleet appears to be focused on its Icelandic operations. Its destination is unknown, but should be considered a high value target. A small group of tankers and supply ships have been photographed loading at the port of Murmansk. Co-ordinated air strikes against key transportation and logistical targets have aggravated their supply situation. SACEur believes that Soviet ground forces have been consuming supplies at a rapid rate. Air support will be available from CVW-8, TR's air group operating from shore installations in northern UK. TR is in dry-dock for the duration of this operation. Navy had planned to provide an aircraft carrier to support the upcoming operation, but a disagreement between USS Theodore Roosevelt and a rock off Scapa Flow was won by the rock. All efforts must be made to support the Norwegian campaign.
If the Soviets are able to re-deploy the forces now operating in Norway, it is likely that NATO forces will be forced to give ground. The success of the Norwegian campaign is vital to the defense of Europe as a whole. CentAG is holding the line, but just barely. 24th Mechanized division is being unloaded in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. SACEur has determined that the best way to slow the Soviet advance on the European continent is to make a stand in Norway and force the Soviets to re-direct forces meant to support the Central Front. De-ciphered Soviet communications indicate the Soviets expect a large-scale withdrawal of Norwegian forces.
These sea lines are vital to future operations and must be protected at all costs. Soviet naval forces have made several attempts to blockade the southern sea-lanes, but RAF strike operations have managed to drive them back to the north. Soviet air operations have been less than successful in stopping the Norwegian defense force from re-deploying south around Narvik. "The Soviet 1st Guards Army has made significant progress in their Norwegian campaign.
These stockpiles are suffering at the hands of Soviet bombs and missiles." The reinforcements and supplies, so desperately needed, pile up at the ports instead of reaching the front. They are also attacking Europe's transportation system, overloaded with supplies headed East and refugees headed West. Later convoys have run into tougher opposition. The Soviets are learning from their mistakes in the first week of the war, changing and refining their tactics. It does not give the West nearly enough strength to take the offensive. Rushed to the front, the reinforcements stabilize the situation, relieving NATO of having to use nuclear weapons. Luckily, the Russian attacks are not well coordinated and the screen holds. Hopefully that helps answer some questions."After a grueling week-long battle, the first reinforcement convoy arrives in England almost intact. There will probably be some refinements in other data (more likely due to new information than system changes). So, these damage point values will probably be different from current values (although in most cases they will still be pretty close). Some other notable changes are that the Harpoon 5 turn sequence will change with the 30 second turns going away, gun combat will change to be more like the other games in the series, anti-air combat is changing, and the damage control procedures will be the same for all the games.Īs part of the project, the formulas for determining the damage points for ships and weapons were consolidated. As Pete mentioned, you are already seeing some of the changes in the recent issues of The Naval SITREP. Just so everyone knows the background on this, the upcoming changes to Harpoon are part of the unification project, which is an effort to make all the Admiralty Trilogy products (Fear God and Dreadnought, Command at Sea, and Harpoon) compatible with each other. But there are a lot of things in the Admiralty Trilogy queue, so that may (probably will) change. The last I heard, there are hopes that Harpoon 5 (sometimes called Harpoon V) can be done for a late 2010 release. Perhaps Dave S can provide some more enlightenment. These rating have already been released via the bi-annual Naval Sitrep from the tilogy folks. As you have seen from some recent activity here, the procedure for air combat has changed, the only data change that I recall is the addition of damage ratings for all aircraft.