Northern Fury 32 - Sneak & Peek 10/3/94
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2026 4:59 pm
Situation
A small scenario, especially by Fury standards. Soviet forces in Norway are short of supplies, as they have just one road to convey them over 2,000km from Murmansk to the front line S of Trondheim. They are using coastal shipping to compensate, so the Norwegian SSK Uredd has been ordered to interdict this in the Vestfjorden, near Narvik and Bodo. NATO is also interested in any intel about the local defences, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to score for this. You can only play the NATO side.
Uredd is a German-designed Type 210 boat, with 14 Seehecht dual-purpose torpedoes, range 5nm. She is highly-rated for stealth and has good sensors.
The Soviets are believed to have at least one Grisha II corvette in the area. Its torpedoes are outranged slightly by Uredd’s, but it has decent sonar and can help to guide Bear, Mail and Haze ASW aircraft, which are based in various places around the fjord.
Cautious Approach
10/3/94 22:00Z (23:00L): I moved Uredd towards the mouth of the fjord at Creep speed and Shallow depth. There were two enemy helicopter bases to either side of the waterway at Rost island and Bodo. Two hours in, a probable Haze chopper suddenly started using its dipping sonar just over a mile away – no prior warning. Typical single-sub scenario event and it could all have ended there. I slipped down to -177’, which was the middle of the layer and survived as the whirlybird moved away.
23:00Z: I figured that it was taking too much of a risk trying to penetrate the fjord when I could just sit outside, beyond the official 35nm ASW mission radius for a Haze and still waylay anything headed for Trondheim.
11/3/94 04:00Z: Having sailed 37nm away from Rost, I turned around and went Shallow. As dawn broke, I risked a quick look at periscope depth, which revealed nothing, Uredd settled-down to wait.
20:00Z: Nothing showed up, so it finished with a score of zero, which is Average.
Bolder Approach
10/3/94 20:00Z: Advanced down the fjord at Creep, inside the layer.
11/3/94 02:30Z: A Grisha was detected 8-9nm to the NE and a sonobuoy 5.5nm SSE. I might have tackled the corvette had it been alone, but not while it had air support, so I tried to steer around it.
04:56Z: With sonobuoys nearby, I detected a ferry about 8nm WSW. To attack invited retribution and its course and speed of 20 knots did not make it an easy target, anyway. I went to Weapons Hold to stop the AI doing anything silly, especially as a Haze was using dipping sonar to the N.
07:50Z: A 45,000-ton dry bulk carrier, the Victor, was detected 8-9nm to the WNW. I wasn’t being actively hunted and this was too good an opportunity to pass-up, so I turned and sank the freighter with half-a-dozen torpedoes, scoring 25VP to go into Minor Victory territory. It didn’t take long for an aircraft and a Grisha to show as I tried to steer away at Cruise.
20:00Z: Much course alteration ensued to steer clear of the corvette and its aerial buddies. I noted that the AI kept adjusting my depth back to Shallow every time I changed course. There were no calamities, but no further targets presented themselves, either, so it ended in a Minor Victory.
The next one is another submarine scenario, as NATO tries to insert special forces behind Russian lines.
A small scenario, especially by Fury standards. Soviet forces in Norway are short of supplies, as they have just one road to convey them over 2,000km from Murmansk to the front line S of Trondheim. They are using coastal shipping to compensate, so the Norwegian SSK Uredd has been ordered to interdict this in the Vestfjorden, near Narvik and Bodo. NATO is also interested in any intel about the local defences, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to score for this. You can only play the NATO side.
Uredd is a German-designed Type 210 boat, with 14 Seehecht dual-purpose torpedoes, range 5nm. She is highly-rated for stealth and has good sensors.
The Soviets are believed to have at least one Grisha II corvette in the area. Its torpedoes are outranged slightly by Uredd’s, but it has decent sonar and can help to guide Bear, Mail and Haze ASW aircraft, which are based in various places around the fjord.
Cautious Approach
10/3/94 22:00Z (23:00L): I moved Uredd towards the mouth of the fjord at Creep speed and Shallow depth. There were two enemy helicopter bases to either side of the waterway at Rost island and Bodo. Two hours in, a probable Haze chopper suddenly started using its dipping sonar just over a mile away – no prior warning. Typical single-sub scenario event and it could all have ended there. I slipped down to -177’, which was the middle of the layer and survived as the whirlybird moved away.
23:00Z: I figured that it was taking too much of a risk trying to penetrate the fjord when I could just sit outside, beyond the official 35nm ASW mission radius for a Haze and still waylay anything headed for Trondheim.
11/3/94 04:00Z: Having sailed 37nm away from Rost, I turned around and went Shallow. As dawn broke, I risked a quick look at periscope depth, which revealed nothing, Uredd settled-down to wait.
20:00Z: Nothing showed up, so it finished with a score of zero, which is Average.
Bolder Approach
10/3/94 20:00Z: Advanced down the fjord at Creep, inside the layer.
11/3/94 02:30Z: A Grisha was detected 8-9nm to the NE and a sonobuoy 5.5nm SSE. I might have tackled the corvette had it been alone, but not while it had air support, so I tried to steer around it.
04:56Z: With sonobuoys nearby, I detected a ferry about 8nm WSW. To attack invited retribution and its course and speed of 20 knots did not make it an easy target, anyway. I went to Weapons Hold to stop the AI doing anything silly, especially as a Haze was using dipping sonar to the N.
07:50Z: A 45,000-ton dry bulk carrier, the Victor, was detected 8-9nm to the WNW. I wasn’t being actively hunted and this was too good an opportunity to pass-up, so I turned and sank the freighter with half-a-dozen torpedoes, scoring 25VP to go into Minor Victory territory. It didn’t take long for an aircraft and a Grisha to show as I tried to steer away at Cruise.
20:00Z: Much course alteration ensued to steer clear of the corvette and its aerial buddies. I noted that the AI kept adjusting my depth back to Shallow every time I changed course. There were no calamities, but no further targets presented themselves, either, so it ended in a Minor Victory.
The next one is another submarine scenario, as NATO tries to insert special forces behind Russian lines.