Operation Island Thunder

[jim panse]

Did anyone say Spectre Gunship?

Hope you can use that unit!

Btw, sounds like hell! I want to see that scen as fast as possible!

[curtsibling]

Me too!
It's a cool scen idea!
I want to help Cuba escape from the red menace!

[techumseh]

This sounds like a yankee wet dream. "Cuba is on the verge of freedom." Yeah right. Another rogue state "liberated" by the Americans. I'll give this one a pass.

[Ramsses]

Nothing is wrong with red, only the communies sometimes have weird ideas .

[:) Smiley]

A neat idea would be a very short scenario, where the US starts with overwhelming force, but has only a few turns to take all of Cuba.

[POTUS]

But, they won't have overwhelming force, or at least not overwhelming enough. Unless they move troops from Iraq, and send troops just back from there into battle, we'll see some more guerilla warfare, if the Cubans are as determined to keep the US out as in Iraq.

[Art of War]

Map: 100% complete

Cities: 100% complete

Units: 85% complete

Terrain: 100%

Events: 0%

also, Curt, it is a pretty big map of Cuba, with just a little tip at the top with a "US Base" located there. It will be very reminiscent of Pablo's "Marruecos"(sp?), which it was inspired by.

Also, the title was taken from Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Computer/Xbox/PS2 games, specifically "Ghost Recon: Island Thunder" available for PC and Xbox.

This is going to be a pretty big war...I may break it up into TWO scenarios, and say that "IF 'this' happens, then load 'scenario 1.2', if 'that' happens, load 'scenario 2'...i don't know. I may need help with a batch file.

[Art of War]

also...did anyone ever make a Pave-Low Copter?

[curtsibling]

When I said 'red menace' ...erm... I meant red chillies!

Anyway, I think the Cuban forces should play a major part in booting out Infidel Castro.

For the duration of the battle, America could keep a distance and stare malevolently.
Only stepping in if the battle goes ill...

[Case]

Originally posted by POTUS
But, they won't have overwhelming force, or at least not overwhelming enough. Unless they move troops from Iraq, and send troops just back from there into battle, we'll see some more guerilla warfare, if the Cubans are as determined to keep the US out as in Iraq.

While that's true for today, by 2006 US deployments should be back to peacetime levels (provided that Iraq settles down and Bush doesn't invade any other countries).

I did a little bit of exploratitary work for a scenario covering a US invasion of Cuba in late 2003 for another game, and, assuming that it was possible to stop the troop rotation in Iraq and activate some more National Guard units, the US could have put together a more then adequete force to invade the country. Occupying it and Iraq would have been impossible though.

[Art of War]

anyone have a Pave Low?

also, this probably won't be close enough to real for some of you, but it should be fun.

[POTUS]

Iraq won't settle down, and in a week or so, the National Guard and Reserves can't be activated.

[Art of War]

hey, how do you change the date from, say March 2006 to "Day 1, 2, 3, etc.." like in Marruecos?

[Art of War]

units. i hope that worked.

[curtsibling]

@Art of War:

To change the day/month/year thing...

Got to labels and change AD and BC to 'Day'.

Then press 'shift-F4' to set the turns to 1 as well.

Go to your saved *.sav or *.scn file, press ctrl-shift-P and change the 'Turn Increment' to 1.

Also set the game turns to one on this menu.

That should do it.