@Revan

Thank you very much for your detailed and considered response! Gellis made a large number of scenarios which are in the Community Pack; if you just scroll through the pack and pick out scenarios at random, you'll find plenty of his before you get to the end.

I hope this was a satisfactory answer and has shed some light onto my thought process.

Also recall that the Royal Navy and the UK's armed forces had already been undergoing decades of disarmament and reduction in overall force; and they responded to the Argentinian threats very quickly. I have no doubt that the US would have been able to muster whatever forces they deemed sufficient to put down the threat in a very timely manner, it was still the height of the Cold War after all :)

While I can find ton's of information on the status of USN Aircraft Carriers and Battleships throughout the Cold War, information on the status of smaller escort ships, and even cruisers, in a specific time period is still hard to come by.

Maybe one or two of the ships would have been somewhat overkill for this particular scenario, and based upon availability as Reagan's military/navy rebuilding didn't really hit it's stride until about 1984.

Additionally; the Falklands war had been going on for a month already, and it was widely covered by the media and observed by military analysts. The USA would have been aware of the possibility of having to intervene (which Reagan did consider, historically) and would have covertly brought several ships and other military units to readieness had the UK actually recieved the serious losses they did in my scenario.

The USN has also always operated a large number of attack submarines for a simmilar purpose ever since the end of World War 2, so I believe it would not be difficult for the USN to muster the 3 SSNs that they already have in-theater.

I am unfamiliar with Mark Gellis or any of his scenarios, do you happen to have any links on-hand to share with me? I'd be very interested in researching his stuff.

Sorry, due to Steam's comment Character limit, I have to break my response up into a number of parts.

Also note, that a number of the USN vessels in-region are either smaller "escort" ships like Knox class Frigates, Perry class Frigates, Spruance Class destroyers and a Farragut class Destroyer. During the late 1970s and mid-to-late 1980s, the USN operated a large number of these ships, allowing for a large number to be available at almost any given time; for instance, if World War 3 were to kick off, the USN would need a large number of convoy escorts to deploy very quickly.

Hello memes; and thanks for your interest.

I chose to have the USS America rushed through it's refurbishment for a couple of reasons, mainly that of all the Carriers operated by the USN in 1982; many of them were deployed to the Pacific, Middle East, or North Atlantic. Additionally; the USS America was very close to coming out of her refurbishment period anyways, so it wouldn't be unheardof for the USN to rush the carrier back into service for something like this.

As for general force deployment; I think it would have been feasable for the USN to deploy the amount of ships seen in the scenario, seeing as approximately 1/3rd of the US fleet is on reserve-ready deployment status at any given time to be able to muster out to volitile conflicts such as these (except for maybe the USS Iowa, as she did have some inital problems during her 1980s refit, but hey, artistic license.).

@Revan

Great concept, going to start it up soon and have a go. I have a couple of questions about the way this scenario is set up to ask out of interest:

In the circumstances of 1982, is there a reason why you chose to have the carrier rushed through its repairs and refurbishment for this operation, rather than have an already operational carrier deployed to the South Atlantic?

And on a related note, as for the composition of the US task force - how willing and able do you think the USN would have been to muster this kind of force for this operation in May 1982? I ask because I've noticed that in many similar 'presence' scenarios set during the same time period - Mark Gellis has made a lot of them set all around the world - often only limited forces are made available, and of course the South Atlantic is a logistically challenging theater.

@tookatee

That was the general idea :)

A great improvement upon the original scenario! While I just made critical unit fixes to his scenario, you've gone all out and made vast improvements to the idea that he had put together.

Great job, looking forward to trying this out later today :) Keep up the good work!