Hectic Throw*
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Date: Early February, 1978*
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Battle Location: Jijiga, Somali-Ethiopian Border*
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Battle Type: Somali and Ethiopian meeting engagement*
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Description: The Ogaden War is raging for a year now. After early successes and control of entire southern Ethiopia, the tide turns: coup d'etat in Ethiopia is staged. Mengistu Haile Mariam takes power and Ethiopia changes sides to Warsaw Pact. USSR decides to support Ethiopia as more promising partner. Now, support for Somalia is withdrawn and Somalis are retreating over entire front. 
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Close to Somali-Rthiopian border, at Madra Pass, Somalis prepared defensive positions. A column of Ethiopian and Cuban troops is crossing northeast into the highlands between Jijiga and the border with Somalia, bypassing the SNA-WSLF force defending the Marda Pass. Somali desperately attempt to stop the flanking maneuver and thus, mixed Somali force is doing its best to prevent the breach at one of the local passes...
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Notes: If  played against the AI the human player should take the Somali side.*
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Source: Tom Cooper, "Ogaden War, 1977-1978" and others. This is semi-historical scenario: there were attempts to hold that flanking action and this scenario depicts one of them.*
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Design by: Marcin "SaS TrooP" Kaluza**

