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Trondheim Express, 1994

Trondheim Express
Afternoon, 14 February, 1994
Day two of a new global war, and it has already gone badly. You are commander of Allied Forces North, and the situation went from being bad yesterday to disastrous this morning! You staff have focused on re-grouping your surviving units and bringing in new reinforcements as fast as possible. A major Soviet push this morning has forced your air units South, effectively closing Bardufoss. Tromso, Evenes is still open but barely. Your heavily depleted air units have scrambled back to Bodo where 3 Norwegian and 1 Dutch F-16 Squadrons with the F-15s of the US 493rd FS are attempting to hold back hundreds of Soviet A/C. Jamming continues to be heavy and very effective, you can also assume that Soviet ELINT is picking up most transmissions. Both Banak and Kirkens airfields were in operation against us this morning.
Your available aircraft are severely depleted, your pilots are tired, your ground crews are exhausted, and your stock of AAW missiles is draining rapidly. You grudgingly consider a further withdraw of forces South to Orland and Vaernes. The one bright spot is the arrival of a British Jaguar and 2 USAF F-16 and Squadrons. The situation on land is equally bad, an airmobile operation NE of Bardufoss this morning seized the passes and dislocated the defenders there - Bardufoss will fall in the next few hours, it is already under artillery fire. The Maritime situation is improving marginally, the Norwegian Navy has put to sea and STANAVFORLANT is moving to assist.
The Norwegian parliament was hit by a truck bomb yesterday, both the Prime Minister and the King were killed. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is now the head of state, the government; however, is in chaos. Decisions and guidance are non existent. Orders and coordination is coming from SHAPE in Belgium and the NATO Command structure is working (much to everyone's surprise), but is focused on the Central front - reinforcements are coming – but slowly.
This scenario is playable by NATO only:
You must inflict damage and slow Soviet progress. You you need to prevent the Soviet amphibious force from reaching Trondheim.
Designer’s Notes:
This is the sixth scenario of a 20-24 scenario campaign. See the Northern Fury background document for further insight on the background and happenings so far. The key nuggets
· Cold War continued, no thaw in relations. Germany still divided, WP still alive and doing very well.
· The 3rd World war started yesterday. The Warsaw Pact forces led by the Soviet Union attacked NATO and other nations on a global scale, the main blow was in Western Europe but fighting also erupted in the Pacific, Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa. India has declared a separate war with Pakistan, North Korea attacked Southwards in an apparently independent move. Finaly Argentina is threatening the Falklands again (but has not attacked).
In earlier scenarios of this battle set, you found that the defences in North Norway have collapsed, the Soviet Northern Fleet has put to sea, the island of Jan Mayan is now in Soviet hands, and Soviet submarines are inflicting damage along the US Eastern seaboard.


You should turn 'special messages' ON.

You have some significant ammunition issues, for the full experience you should play with 'Unlimited ammunition OFF'

Please respect the initial ready times for aircraft.
If you sank a major unit in previous scenarios, you may encounter it again. This is a limitation of tactical game played in a campaign such as this. Consider the previous report erroneous and enjoy attacking that unit once more. After all, it has been known that reports from units in contact are sometimes exaggerated ;-)

Points are allotted or deducted for losses, and the Soviet amphibious force reaching it's unloading zone.
Ver 2:


Updated to DB3000 build 418

2 NATO SSNs removed, another moved south

Prosecution zones added

ini file included
Ver 3:


Many NATO AC now have Ace Status

Removed a duplicate squadron

Minor modifications
Ver 3.1


Fixed Soviet Tankers and AEW support

Several minor mods
Created by Bart Gauvin: AKA Gunner98