After Action Reports
Scenarios
Here’s a list of scenarios by the game designers and/or submitted by fellow Modern Spearhead players:
Call To Arms 2005: “Alsfeld” Mega-Game
Call to Arms is a regular convention held in August each year in Wellington, New Zealand. Having previously run a couple of Spearhead Mega-Games (including a Crete 1941, Maleme game) successfully, local MSH players Pete Connor & Rhys Batchelor decided to try a hand at a Modern Spearhead game assisted by other local gamers and joined by several other New Zealand Wargamers on a table 20′ x 6′.
It is Summer 1984, and tensions are high between East & West, and an unusual Soviet build-up has occurred along the Iron Curtain ostensibly under the grounds of annual exercises. NATO forces have been raised to high alert, and preparatory steps are taken for potential hostilities although full mobilisation has not been initiated for fear of pre-empting hostilities…
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Operation Burning Sands: Counterattack at Mu’amur, Iraq 1988
When the campaign in Afghanistan escalated into a major Soviet effort for domination of the Middle East, the United States was forced to intervene. In Operation: Black Gold the U.S. expeditionary force successfully halted a Soviet incursion into staunch U.S.-supporter Iraq. As part of a Corps-wide maneuver, 1st Cavalry Division has been ordered to counter-attack Soviet positions along the border. On the 9 April 1988 the 39th U.S. Armored Brigade is attacking positions in the Mu’amur valley held by a reinforced Motor Rfle Regiment from the 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division.
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Krasnovian Invasion, USA 1999
Modern Spearhead demo scenario from PointCon 1999. It is a scenario based on an actual U.S. training battle fought at NTC.
The Soviet backed Krasnovian forces have launched a massive invasion of the Southern Continental United States. The Krasnovian 15th Combined Arms Army is moving to capture the juncture of Interstates 15 and 40 at Barstow, California, thus cutting off the main route leading from Arizona into Los Angeles. This area is being defended by the U.S. 20th Corps.
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Mazrat Al-Jami, Golan Heights, Syria 1998
Mazrat Al-Jami is one of the original play test scenarios developed by Alex Macris during Modern Spearhead’s development – it features a hypothetical Syrian breakthrough in the Golan Heights after a surprise SRBM Gas Attack, and a corresponding Israeli response by rushing reserves in to plug the gap. Force size sees an Israeli Para Brigade attempting to thwart a breakthrough by a Reinforced Syrian Tank Brigade in an encounter style battle.
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Clash in the Bekka, Lebanon 1982
It is 1982 and the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon is in full swing. A premeptive Israeli advance up the Bekaa Valley to clear it of Palestinian Insurgents has threatened the Damascus-Beirut Highway and resulted in a Syrian response, and a pending armored clash as the two spearheads of the two forces meet. This is one of the original Modern Spearhead play-test scenarios and features a small high-quality Israeli Brigade facing a reasonably strong Syrian Tank Division.
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