Scenario Proposal Thread

VDS · #1 August 25th, 2006, 12:29 PM

A hypothetical future conflict that is looking more likely every day is a civil war in the Nigerian Delta.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5285556.stm

With the Delta being the source of Nigeria's oil wealth, it is not unlikely that the west would intervene. The UK (former colonial power), the Netherlands (Dutch Shell), and the US (major consumer of Nigerian oil) could potentially intervene.

Randy · #2 August 25th, 2006, 02:29 PM

I think a good scenario would be the Hungarian Revolution. Not much has been covered about this conflict.

Irinami · #3 August 29th, 2006, 06:40 PM

What about all the Merc work in Africa in the middle of the century?

MarkSheppard · #4 September 3rd, 2006, 02:06 AM

Canada in Desert Storm Hypo scenario

Posted by 1Hussar in the TOE thread on Canadian Armor:

Canada had an opportunity to send combat troops to Iraq in the first Gulf War. The plan was to have Canadian troops deal with bypassed Iraqi units.

In the end, Canada was unable to participate. It was not operationally ready to do so, because its obsolescent Leopard 1 tanks, M113 and Grizzly wheeled APC's were deemed incapable of doing the job without undue risk. Long-standing resupply and transport problems originating in Canada also prevented Canadian forces from being ready in a timely manner. Finally, the politicians did not like the casualty estimates (an election was pending) and drastically down-scaled Canada's role.

The greatest irony was that the Canadian troops to be deployed to Iraq were stationed in Germany, and were at least nominally trained to deal with a large-scale enemy force (whose general ORBAT and T&OE then was what Iraqi forces were based on).

MarkSheppard · #5 December 7th, 2006, 01:19 AM

Mahdi Army Campaign.

Basically, Al Sadr's Mahdi army is a pretty large force, with about 40,000 men he can call upon, and at least 11,000 armed effectives at any time; and they can control large contigiuous areas of Iraqi urban areas; which makes a campaign centered around his Mahdi Army interesting; from both points of view; as the Mahdi player, you actually have a decent amount of fighters; not just the usual 10 to 30 men that an insurgent group has, while as the US player, you have to clear the city of his men while not incurring excessive casualties...