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Campaign idea stubs

Post by toonces » 2009-07-18 13:50:07

I just don't know where else to put these, and I want them in the forum where I can find them later.

- Exercise Dawn Patrol: "From 19 to 29 May 1978, Forrestal participated in Dawn Patrol, the first of three NATO exercises the ship would be involved in during the deployment. Dawn Patrol involved air and ground forces and over 80 ships from six NATO countries. Forrestal's role during the exercise included protecting a Turkish amphibious task group and working with USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and the French carrier Foch to defend against simulated "enemy" ships and aircraft."
Source: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/shi ... estal.html

This is an excellent starting point for a campaign in the new Aegean Theater (probably). Includes the Foch, which means we can put cool French CV capable jets in it. Has Turks, so we can use the Turkish planes/skins already in the Aegean theater.

- Exercise Northern Wedding: "From 4 to 19 September 1978, Forrestal participated in the massive NATO exercise Northern Wedding, which included over 40,000 men, 22 submarines, and 800 rotary and fixed-wing aircraft from nine NATO countries. Northern Wedding, which takes place every four years, practices NATO's ability to reinforce and resupply Europe in times of tension or war. During the exercise Forrestal and the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal headed separate task groups, steaming in a two-carrier formation to gain sea control and deploying their aircraft in support of mock amphibious landings in the Shetland Islands and Jutland, Denmark."
Source: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/shi ... estal.html

This idea is a starting point for the amphibious landing exercise I mentioned in the thread about an "air war only" campaign. The entire campaign would focus on the amphibs actually reaching the destination- not the actual capture of anything. It capitalizes on the FF5 Phantom DB, with F-4s on both the Forrestal and Brit Phantoms on the Ark Royal, as well as Brit Buccaneers (woot!). We could build this in the Europe Theater, streamlining the OOB to focus the fight in the exercise area. Actually, this wouldn't be hard at all- just delete all units and then rebuild them in the exercise area only.

- Exercise Display Determination: "From 28 September to 10 October, Forrestal participated in Display Determination, the third and final NATO exercise of the deployment. The operation, involving ships, aircraft, and personnel from eight NATO countries, was designed to practice rapid reinforcement and resupply of the southern European region in times of tension or war. Forrestal arrived in Rota on 11 October for the last overseas port stop of the deployment.


On 13 October 1978, the ship put to sea to conduct a one-day exercise with a task group of deploying U.S. ships headed by the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60). Air Wing Seventeen's planes conducted mock attacks on the task group to allow the ships to practice anti-air warfare. Forrestal returned to Rota late in the evening on the 13th."
Source: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/shi ... estal.html

This exercise would capitalize on the Spain Theater (probably- have not actually flown in it yet).

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