Situation

In this scenario, a civil war has broken-out in contemporary Angola, with the pro-Russian government facing the re-born FNLA and UNITA factions, as well as separatists in the Northern Cabinda enclave and the frontier region with Namibia in the South. Russia has been using Angola as a ...

Gave this another go. Launched all available Harriers immediately to help the two SAGs, which ran like Hell for the open Atlantic and used such ECM as they had, with the Compass Call moving in closer for the same purpose.

It made little difference, though the disaster took longer to unfold. TG ...

Situation

With the amphibious landings in Norway pending, NATO uses the British Ark Royal and Invincible carrier groups to absorb Soviet attention with the notional objective of neutralising the airbases at Orland and Vaernes, near Trondheim. It is also intended to sweep mines from the mouth of ...

Seems from Nikel's last post that B1892 is a Beta, so I'll wait for the official release of this one.

Thanks for the advice. The product page got me to B1825, so that will have to do for now.

Seems B1674 is the most recent version available outside the US, according to both My Page and the Check for Updates process.

Any word on when anything more recent will be provided for UK/Europe users?

It's really difficult now that Bart has incorporated at least some of the improvements to the Russian AI that AndrewJ recommended after his playtest. I lasted a bit longer than 10 minutes, but was still well-beaten. As you say, the volume of ballistic missiles that come at you is mind-boggling and ...

Resumption

I disengaged and RTB’d all aircraft, as I could do nothing until the AMRAAM F-16s were ready again (and one was at Gardermoen and needed to Ferry back to Sola to re-arm).

09:00Z: Two MiG-27s took-out the Giraffe radar, but were then downed by MANPADs. Another attacked with stand-off ...

OK, I'm still on B1674, so perhaps that one has been fixed. Clearly, that calls some (at least) of my other points into question, too.

As for the inability to restart the timer, I wish I could have sent you a Save file so you could investigate it. Unfortunately, after I'd written the AAR, I resumed ...

The problem here is that I omit most of the categories on the Message Log to improve game performance. I looked at the Exception Log, but there didn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary apart from the entry about 'painting' that I cited above.

Most of the problems I encountered were ...

Situation

This is a very big scenario which assumes that relations between China and the West (and the UK in particular) have deteriorated due to differences over Hong Kong, the Huawei affair and the supposed causes of the Covid pandemic. You can only play the UK/Coalition side.

The new carrier ...

Situation

The Soviets begin their climactic advance down the Gudbrandsdal through Lillehammer to Oslo and the 2nd Brigade of the US 82nd Airborne tries to stop them. You can only play the NATO side.

The 82nd and their Norwegian allies are represented by a variety of fixed and mobile units, the ...

Can't argue with that. Trouble is, in this scenario, there are always fighters protecting the targets (Turkey has so many) so the choice is try it anyway or do nothing. The SCALPs did succeed in taking-out the four refineries, scoring 400VP, so it was worth it.

Sorry about the break in the flow of AARs, but I’ve just come back from a three-week trip to Japan and Aegean in Flames is a complex scenario which took a while to set-up and play.

Situation

It’s no secret that the Greeks and Turks aren’t the best of friends!. The scenario postulates that, in ...

Balance of Forces

This one is a total epic!. NATO counterattacks in Norway, aiming to hold in the South while hitting the Soviets hard in the Western flank. A huge force has been assembled for Operation Thor’s Hammer, but the Russians have been busy, too. You can only play as NATO.

The ...

I'm sure you're right about the amount of data in the Log. I minimised what was being written to it to reduce the chronic performance problems I was having with the game, but this is the penalty.

It COULD have been caused by the TLAMs flying close to the Russian ships, but this happened some time ...

I know where to find them. Not sure if I could interpret them the way a developer would, though. I've attached it if you're interested though, to me, it doesn't shed much light.

I had a few hours to spare, so I played this smallish scenario by Mark Gellis, which is part of a series of three. The concept is that there was a rising against Soviet rule in Poland (and, to a lesser extent, East Germany) in 1964. NATO did not immediately intervene, but West Germany decided to ...

Not to the best of my knowledge, though the incident happened while I was concentrating on the AGM-84 attack on the nuclear construction site and satellite uplink relay. The F-22 was standing some way off the coast of North Korea, using its ground search radar to look for the remaining Nodong, at 36 ...

Situation

This is a large scenario and takes a lot of analysis and setting-up (unless you’re the sort who just jumps in regardless).
There is evidence that North Korea might be about to actually use its nuclear weapons. Their ballistic-missile-carrying diesel sub Sinpo has slipped out of port and ...