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Hello all, I've been playing through Gunner98's excellent Northern Fury battle set (if you haven't tried them, you're missing out), and I've been putting up an AAR over at the Grogheads forum. I've had a lot of fun writing these up as a sort of novelization and I wanted to share here as well I hope many of you will enjoy the narrative of the story that Gunner is telling.

Anyway, enough for the introduction, here's the link to the first AAR:

Northern Fury 1: H-Hour

And the second one:

Northern Fury 2: X-Ray Station

Northern Fury 3: Dagger to the Heart, a different kind of scenario with a different kind of narrative:

Northern Fury 3: Dagger to the Heart

My Northern Fury 4: A Cold and Lonely Place AAR is complete:

Northern Fury 4: A Cold and Lonely Place

Northern Fury 5: Bardufoss Blues, complete:

Northern Fury 5: Bardufoss Blues

Northern 5.5: Trondheim Express, complete:

Northern Fury 5.5: Trondheim Express

Northern Fury 6: Keflavik Capers, complete:

Northern Fury 6: Keflavik Capers

Northern Fury 7: Plug the Gap, complete:

Northern Fury 7: Plug the Gap

Northern Fury 8: Hold the Line, complete:

Northern Fury 8: Hold the Line

Northern Fury 9.1: Eisenhower Moves North, complete:

Northern Fury 9.1: Eisenhower Moves North

Northern Fury 9.2: Changing of the Guard, complete:

Northern Fury 9.2: Changing of the Guard

Northern Fury 9.4: Cutting the Tether, complete.

Northern Fury 9.4: Cutting the Tether

Northern Fury 9.5: Here Comes the Cavalry, complete:

Northern Fury 9.5: Changing of the Guard

Northern Fury 10.2: Anteater's Revenge, in progress:

Northern Fury 10.2: Anteater's Revenge

Hope you all enjoy and many thanks to Gunner98 for putting these together.

Just a word of warning, the narratives contain spoilers, so don't read if you want to go into the scenarios with a clean slate! [:)]

Thanks a bunch! Been following this for a while [:)]

X-Ray station is my favourite as NATO side, but really really hard.

Agreed, I definitely "cheated" by going back to old saves and doing things differently to keep some of my subs alive.

Nice! I just finished NF4 past evening. I'll definitely take some clues for NF2, where all my subs fail miserably [:@] I'm starting to build a tremendous respect for those ugly Soviet ASW Helos [:D]

I found the best way to get my subs into the Soviet battle group formations in NF2 was to get in front of them, go deep and all stop, and then let the surface ships pass over. Then come up and launch your attacks from the rear, and if there is an Udaloy you need to take it out or at least get it to run away from you if you want the sub to survive.

AR
Great reviews, thanks for doing them!

B

Great AARs, nice writing!

I've posted some updates to the NF4 AAR: A Cold and Lonely Place

Conclusion to the NF4 AAR posted at the link.

Great read as always! Thanks a lot!

Nice finish AR.

B

Very nice reading AR! Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the kind words gents. It's has been a ton of fun to both play and write.

You did a great job.... Good read.....

New AAR for NF3 started over at Grogheads. Link here, and in the original post of this thread.

Conclusion to NF3 posted at the link.

New AAR thread started for NF5, link here and in the original post.

discussed some more on the current GrogCast