Come to Papa Bear!**

Meeting Engagement: USA vs. Iraq*
Southern Kuwait*
February 25th, 1991*
Turns: 12**

Scenario Size: Medium*
Estimated Playing Time: 2 Hour+**

Design: Wild Bill Wilder*
bwilder@bellsouth.net**

Testers: Stephen Porter, Lars Remmen, Tom DeShetler**

Important!: If you don't see the smoke from the burning oil well when you start the scenario, click on the "smoke" button and it will appear. You need to see the smoke to understand why visibility is limited in certain areas.**

Designer Notes: This can be played as a one or two player game. If as a one Player Scenario, it should be played from the US side.**

This scenario only covers the early defensive actions of the units of the US Marine's "Papa Bear" Task Force, as it comes under attack by Republican Guard units.The US tank reinforcements will not appear in this game.**

Here we have a situation where an advancing force is suddenly confronted by an unexpected counterattack. The panic and confusion resulting from such an event is portrayed in this battle.**

Your Orders:**

Colonel Hodory, you are to do whatever is necessary to protect your headquarters unit until help arrives. Hold your ground at all costs! Artillery will be available shortly. Chopper support is about 20 minutes away. Hold on!**

Historical background:**

On the second day of the Coalition's actions to retake Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's armies, the Marines found themselves ahead of the units covering their left flank.**

The skies were gray and sullen, as smoke boiled from the hundreds of oil wells set afire by the henchmen of Saddam Hussein. At times it hindered visibility as the Marines moved forward.**

The Marines halted their advance, waiting for their flank to be covered. Suddenly Colonel Hodory, commander of TF "Papa Bear," was forced to duck behind his Humvee for cover as tanks and infantry of the Republican Guard charged in on his unprotected left flank, supported by 122mm artillery rounds crashing around the area.**

Help was on the way, but until it arrived, it was the Colonel's job to avoid annihilation from the enemy, who vastly outnumbered his meager force.**

He and his men did just that. Soon tanks returning from the north undertook the enemy's T-55 and T-62 tanks with a vengeance. Support from Cobra gunships put the finishing touches on the Iraqi attempt. In less than an hour the threat was over and the Marines continued the job of running Iraq out of Kuwait.**

Sources:**

Desert Victory, Friedman*
Crusade, Atkinson*
The Whirlwind War, Schubert and Kraus*
Certain Victory, Scales*
Coalition Forces, Osprey Special Edition**

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To Win this Battle:** 

Let the enemy come to you. Use your TOW ammo sparingly, and turn them off during the defensive phase of your turn to avoid overspending of those assets in opportunity fire.

You may not be able to hold or retake all of the victory objectives. Holding the two in the center is vital to a win of any sort.

A brazen attack forward will lose you this fight.