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Thanksgiven to our Foes

Following a North Korean amphibious operation in outlying South Korean islands, the situation on the Korean peninsula has deteriorated rapidly. Open warfare has broken out along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and UN forces are being hard pressed by a North Korean offensive. Secretary Brezhnev seeking the chance to bloody the Americans outside of a wider European conflict has directed the Soviet military to support the North Koreans and directly engage American forces.

Your task today Commodore is to escort an American amphibious assault group to land forces south of Wonsan harbor. It is expected that Soviet air, and sea forces will oppose you. Due to the efforts of the USAF and ROKAF coastal defenses in the region are expected to be a non factor but a high level of air defenses deeper into the Peninsula are expected. Signals intelligence has reported the presence of a number of Soviet submarines and their approximate patrol boxes, it is unlikely Communist party officers will allow the submarines to venture outside their boxes.


Historically the casus belli here did happen, and was pretty much ignored in the wider low intensity fighting on the Korean DMZ between 1966 and 1969. It did not blow over into a wider conflict. This mission supposes that North Korean attempts to spark an insurgency in South Korea sparked a major conflict.

The mission is set on Thanksgiving Day 1968, Harpoon was deployed/entered service in 1977. Several warships are equipped with Harpoon and the P-3C's can also carry Harpoon. Harpoon would trivialize the intended core of the mission which is closer ranged surface action using Terrier or Standard. However if that's the way *you* want to play the game whom am I to disagree.

If you want to get rid of the Harpoons on surface ships to allow for the use of Weapons Free without automatically firing Harpoons, they may be fired at positions. There are no Soviet ships *behind* your task force so they may be safely disposed of in that direction. This will take approximately 3 minutes per ship, during which time they will be unable to fire surface to air missiles.