Date: Sat, 18 May 2002
From: "josephpawlowski" <jpawlowski@mybc.com>
Subject: GR PATIF Defcon 5 scenario

 
Setup 1948 1949 1950 1951
 
 
 Rules in play...No extra sets, just PATIF counters. (Classic) 
No SS for Germany, No amphib rules (amphibs are just expensive transports). Ummm...Most of the options are in play. No carpet bombing. House rule..if a 
German hex (major power) is nuked, Russia gets the Political points, if an Italian hex is nuked, US gets the political points.
 
Pre game politics. Communist countries....Turkey (may enter), Finland (may enter), Spain (half production), India (slightly up), Yugoslavia (mobilize)
 
Democratic France....Persia. CW.....Norway (Mobilize), Saudi Arabia (slightly up). US.....Sweden (May Enter), Brazil (half production)

Set up. 
France, two corps in the Rhineland border with France. Para in africa. Rest of army in the alps with Italy. Plan is to evacuate France as fast as possible to 
preserve a good fighting force when France falls. 
Italy, essentially guard the Northern alps.
CW, set up two corps in Kiel. Air in two northern hexes above Kiel. Plan is to evac whatever lives.
US, Entire US army in the mountains of Austria, spread out, as close to Italy as possible. One air unit (i picked the air transport) can be saved by stacking on the
HQ. The rest is spread out with the British, in the North. THe plan is to pick blitz combat whenever attacked and try to retreat into good defensive terrain in Italy.
Chiang China, spread out one corp per factory hex, can't remember where I put the extra corp, but it should have been on Formosa. The plan is to rip up every 
blue factory i am sitting on to deny the Communist chinese the production. 
 

1948
 
The Russians open up with a super combined and flip pretty much flip everything in Germany/Austria. France is evacuated by De Gualle and his small army into 
Italy, and declared an open country. The English try to save a flipped Monty by adding another corp to Kiel, but are squished by a large Russian army. The 
americans are retreated a couple of hexes towards Italy with no losses to their army, however, every plane except the air transport is overrun and lost. 
In the middle east, the Egyptian's launch a suprise low odds attack on Tel Aviv, and win, conquering Israel. The North Koreans, with Russian help take South 
Korea before American reinforcements can land.
After taking Denmark, the Russians invade and conquer Norway. 
The swedes mobilize to try and save the Norwegans, but are also quickly conquered by the Russians. Finland enters as a Russian ally.
Communist China successfully clears northern china.
The winter sees an intact american army guarding the eastern Italian border, the French guarding the Western alps, and the Italians guarding the Northern 
approaches. China is quickly being overrun by Communist china, and a stalemate on the Italian border. 
A buildup of Russians is occuring on the Spanish border.
 
Lastly, Germany is liberated by the Russians, and fighter production is started.

 
1949
 
On the Spanish front, the CW prepare for the Spanish entry by putting the New York milita and a CW unit in Gibralter, and a small army with air force in Morocco.
 The Spanish set up 4 units in Tangiers, including Franco, and are quickly put out of supply, flipped and killed. Gibralter is assualted by Zhukov and a good armour 
unit, and wins, but loses one unit in the process. American marines and a British unit invade the unit the Russians came from, and later retake Gibralter. The English 
slowly fight their way into the Spanish hexes around Gibralter. The Russians realize that Gibralter does not have the same significance in this game as in WIF. 
(Since Italy (and Algiers) is one big supply source for the US)
 
 Scandinavia is evacuated (Narvik) by the US and is completely Russian controlled.
 
 The French evacuate Saigon, and move to Persia. The CW South Africans and the Sydney Milita move to Kuwait. Russia declares war on Persia, and moves 
a huge army/airforce in to squish the capital. They slowly retreat the US/French force back to the two Oil ports (allies always pick blitz combat). US carrier fleet 
operates in the Persian gulf. The Russians take Basra when the swamp freezes, but are completely unable to take the two oil ports, despite numerous assaults. 
 
 Batavia falls to the American marines. The rest of china is taken by Mao, and combine two partisans to form a corp on Formosa. The nationalists have one unit 
in Taikaou which moves to block, and put there last two reinforcements on Formosa as well. The commies put one reinforcement in the south for two corps. After 
the US flips the two units commies, the nationlists attack, killing one unit, then lose all three units killing the last communist (ouch!) (realizing that the whole mess 
could have been avoided by just putting one unit in the middle of the island to prevent partisans. China surrenders to prevent any more partisans turning into infantry.
 
 Sub warfare begins, but quickly turns bad as half the sub fleet/ Russian navy / Spanish Navy is nuked in Brest. The rest spread out, but are nuked individually. 
The germans lose a few factories to nukes, and rail the blue ones off the Rhine. The Brits strat bomb factories conventionally, and manage to blow up all the French 
factories. The Commies repair all damage as fast as they can.
 
 The Italian front. With its superior bomber force, and the US CV's saving Persia, the Russians attack Italy, doing minor damage, until S/O, where they roll 2 
19's and an 18, killing 4 strong US corps, and 2 Italian ones in the mountains on low odds attacks. 
Counter attacks by the the US backed by shore bombardment fail miserably, Trieste and Venice are lost. Both American paradroppers try to take an undefended
 Trieste, but are lost. (rolled crappy again). Italy is in danger of falling, as the French/Italians scramble to put one unit along the Po river, hinged on two italians in 
Milan. Then strangely, during the Winter, the Russians pull back to Trieste and the mountain line and decide to defend.
 

1950
 
The nuking is slowed, due to too many fighters around the German factories, but a few fringe factories are nuked. Instead, most of the American air force is in Italy, 
along with all new US land builds. The front looks stable again. Summer of 1950 sees a new offensive by the Russians in Italy, and the Italian units crumble by the 
onslaught, however, the constant stream of americans is greater then the russian ability to kill. The French pull out of Persia/Italy to Libya to form one good sized 
army (about 40 attack points, with a 5 tac bomber) and attack Egypt. With the use of an American Helicopter troop (I love these units!), the French conquer Egypt.
 
 
In Spain, the CW make some Headway, taking Madrid and most of the coastal areas up to Bilbao, and Barcelona. 
Some Convoy raiding occurs, but usually does no damage, or is sunk by ASW. Some success occurs around Japan. (Japan is still a conquered power)
 
The Americans get the H bomb which slows the nuking down (Gearing starts over at one, and all remaining a bombs were used)
 
The Americans align Brazil and conquer Argentina. 
 
With Pakistan almost a full ally of the Russians, the US spend their new found 1.5 times production on moving them to May Enter, then the following turn to Full ally. 
Pakistan then declares war on India, and with American help, moves slowly towards New Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta. The Chinese divert their army from moving
 towards Singapore to Burma. Winter sees Bradley and an OChit taking Calcutta. (Still not a great attack, as the attacking force is halved, and the defending force
 is doubled, but I lucked out and took it in one shot)
 
Strat bombing is going in high gear over Germany, with non-nuclear missions subduing around 7-8 factories a turn. As well, heavy attrition on the German/Russian 
airforce makes it easier and easier.
 
The year ends promising for the allies, with a good army in Italy, overwhelming air superiority over Europe, and the Commonwealth in control of most of Spain. 
After several unsuccessful attempts to kick the americans out of persia, the Russians finally take the Northern oil port, but are two weak to continue the fight. 
The Commonwealth who were kicked out of Basra, return.
 

1951
 
Spring. In Italy, the Americans try to stop the Russians from pulling out of Italy, but manage to only kill a couple of corps. A sortie of subs manages to reduce CW 
production to 7, and effects lendlease to the French (who take all of the Middle east, liberating the Israelites)
 About a quarter of the russian economy is lost due to nuking, but the Chinese are finally reaching a glut in production points. They start lending them to the 
Germans. Most force pools are built out, except for Germany. 
Mexico is looking pretty communist (May Enter). Venezuela is moved from US (Full Production) to Neutral due to extensive US H-bombing. 
 

 
 

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