The "Uber" Command: Modern Air/Naval Ops Thread

[mikeck]

Well, in loving this book so I am bound and determined to create a seaborne nuclear strike. I know there are some soviet bases already put together . Can anyone recommend one of baloogans scenario videos that might be most relevant to help me?

[skeptical.platypus]

Wow, I had no idea we got blast radii down to 500 feet.

lethal rad dosage at 500 feet.  the blast radius was a bit bigger.  ;)

instantly lethal radiation dosage (in excess of 10,000 rem) within 500 feet (150 m), and a probably fatal dose (around 600 rem) within a quarter mile (400 m)

It's still a heck of a lot more tactical than I had ever assumed, and while "survivability" is a very loose concept in a nuclear war that manages to get to the part where you are tossing freaking nuclear softballs at each other, it doesn't appear that the Davy Crockett was certainly a suicide weapon.

[GDS_Starfury]

unless youre the Army grunt told to hold the bend in the road 200 meters away from your firing position in your jeep.

[undercovergeek]

Well, in loving this book so I am bound and determined to create a seaborne nuclear strike. I know there are some soviet bases already put together . Can anyone recommend one of baloogans scenario videos that might be most relevant to help me?

I think episode 5 or 6 covers the whole building a scenario from scratch

[MikeGER]

I would love to get into a limited nuclear exchange and then fight some conventional battles with what's left

check out Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm  ;D
(there is the blast and after effect of aprox. 1kt tactical nukes, lasting and non lasting chems on the battlefield in the late 80ies)

[mikeck]

I have that too...looking for more naval and strategic warfare. I will check out. Baloogans episodes 5 and 6. I built a scenario before but if wasn't very fun.

[mikeck]

unless youre the Army grunt told to hold the bend in the road 200 meters away from your firing position in your jeep.

Is does seem like in the 1950's they were trying to put nukes on everything

[Staggerwing]

Is does seem like in the 1950's they were trying to put nukes on everything

You're not kidding. They even wanted a nuclear powered bomber to carry the nukes:



(Note: the a/c shown merely carried a reactor in the bomb bay to test shielding. The XB-60 was the most likely candidate to be actually nuke-powered.)

[Airborne Rifles]

Arc Light is a great book. Lots of fertile territory there for scenarios.  The Nuclear exchange at the beginning of the book goes much worse for the Russians than the US, opening up all sorts of possibilities.

[mikeck]

I just like the idea of trying to continue the conventional war after a nuclear exchange.
Life goes on so- to- speak

[Baloogan]

I just like the idea of trying to continue the conventional war after a nuclear exchange.
Life goes on so- to- speak

Me too, that is something I'm fascinated with as well. Post nuclear exchange; large or small; and the combat operations that occur after that event. Logistics and resupply becomes very difficult!

[mikeck]

Yep... Shipboard nukes take out Russian naval base and airbase meanwhile the Russians try to scramble together what they have left to take out the American aircraft carrier and accompanying ships that kind of thing ... Including attempting to use their own nuclear cruise missiles against the carrier

[Baloogan]

Please take a look at my online command database!


Can anyone guess which aircraft this is?


Answer: http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2282



All ships: http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataShip
All aircraft: http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft


Fencer http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=1010
Tornado http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=1122
Burke http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataShip?ID=438
Wasp http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataShip?ID=1087


Still have to do ship magazines, and airfacilities, subs, land units and weapons but its on its way! I consider the aircraft display to be complete.

(You can click on the image to expand it)

[Skoop]

^

By the looks of it I'd say it's an AC-130 Spectre gunship.

[Baloogan]

Yup! 100% Correct!