FACING THE ANGRY BEAR!**
USSR Advance vs US Delay*

Eastern Europe, 2005*
October, 2005*
Turns:12**

Scenario Size: 80 x 100**

Design: Fabio Prado*
fprado@fprado.com**

Testers: The Wild SPMBT Team: Andy "Weeble" Weaver, Lars Remmen, Sgt. Walrus, Tom DeShetler, and Wild Bill WIlder**

This scenario is dedicated to Wild Bill Wilder - the Master who introduced me to the art of wargame scenario design.**

Design Notes:**

This is a hypothetical scenario, consisting of a delaying action by the armored forces of the US against a Russian assault. It occurs in the Eastern European Front - WW3 has finnally arrived in all its pyrotecnic glory. The human player should take the US side in a one player scenario.**

YOUR ORDERS:**

As the American commander, you have to delay the Russian ofensive in your sector. Remember: the enemy severely outnumbers you, and their forces are the spearhead of the Russian offensive - they are professionals! The momentum of the attack must be broken at all costs! This is imperative to warrant the deployment of our core armored forces, so we will be able to counter-attack. The USAF has already attained air superiority over your sector, so you'll have reasonable air support, to make up for the lack of artillery.**

Make the best use of the forces available to you. HURRAH!**

HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION:**

Tensions raised dramatically in Eastern Europe, as a delayed side effect of the Armenia vs Azerbaijan war which killed over 40,000 people in 1989-1994. It was a point of pride that the larger and 
more populous Muslim neighbor (Azerbaijan) lost almost 20 percent of it's landmass (Nagorno-Karablakh) to its much smaller, poorer, and less populous neighbor (Armenia).**

Russia intervened. The EU intervened, too. The Russian Army surprised the world when, in a stunning and brilliantly executed strategic blow, encircled and destroyed the European Army Group Center, defeating the combined British/German/Polish force (the T-90+ proved to be more than a match for the Leopards and Challengers) and smashed through the French 2nd Armee.**

Now, the remains of the European Union Intervention Forces (EUIFOR) are struggling to stop the waves of Russian armor, but the outcome seems grim.**

Against their heart's whishes and respective national pride, the Europeans had no choice but to do what their forefathers had done during WW2: ask America for help. The US didn't want a Russian controlled Europe, and there were significant signs that a massive Russian victory could mean the resurrection of the Soviet ideal of domination of Europe.*

Risking a nuclear war, the US faced the logistic nightmare of sending all its core armored forces to put a stop on the Russian advance.**

The first US forces arriving in the East Front had to be committed at once, as the whole front was falling apart, so the US tankers would have to face a situation of serious numerical inferiority. As it turned out, it would be a rather bloody business.**