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BBC doing a TV doc this week on a simulated crisis in the Baltics which involves nuclear weapons and a strike on HMS Ocean

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... liate.html

More diplomatic/crisis game than tactical gaming - but might give useful ideas for scenario designers....

While real life military-relative news can inspire map editors for more realistic and 'fashionable' scenario designs, it has very little to do with CMANO itself. They're not part of the game mechanics, and only the simulating environment and database does matter.

There are always numerous alternatives and what-if's, but political and diplomatic involvements are only playing a little part of the entire war.

Interestingly, the current global military campaigns are focusing on Persian Gulf, Eastern Mediterranean Sea, South China Sea and Japan Sea, yet Baltic Sea -- once the most dangerous area between US and USSR during Cold War, were now usually in the dark.

BBC2 03 Feb tomorrow at 9pm

Do they ever add episodes from this series to BBC America, or is there a legal way someone in the US can view this? I only have BBC America.

You can use something like www.tvwhenaway.co.uk just signup for a week and you'll be able to watch it on the bbc iplayer.