Surprise Party, 1989

SURPRISE PARTY UNITED STATES vs. SOVIET UNION DATE/TIME: 28TH OCTOBER, 1989 / 07:00 ZULU / 07:00 JULIET LOCATION: ATLANTIC OCEAN PLAYABLE SIDES: USA, USSR A U. S. Navy convoy need to move off of Atlantic Ocean to reach the Norwegian Sea. After days of traveling the open seas, the Americans are tired and anxious for a quiet walk on the coast of the Continental Europe. What they do not imagine, is that the Soviets placed the nefarious hot rod from the seas on their way. The ultra-fast and implacable Alfa-class submarine. 688 The war is heating up. NATO is sending a large battle group to the Norwegian Sea from the south in support of their current forces. The Norwegian Sea is of vital significance to both sides - it represent the only access the Soviet Northern Fleet has to the Atlantic Ocean. If NATO can keep the Soviet Northern Fleet "bottled up" in its home ports, American and European shipping can continue delivering preciously needed arms and supplies with minimum harassment. Your orders are to escort the reinforcements to the north and protect them from Soviet attack. ALFA Your orders are to patrol your sector and proceed to attack any enemy vessels you encounter. You stumble onto a large battle group and most single-handely engage the American ships. Good luck. --- Author's notes. In the game 688 Attack Sub, the Soviet Alfa submarine is named "Leninskii Komsomol". In fact, the only Soviet boat with that name was the K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, an old November-class (PLA-627 Kit) submarine which was launched in 1957, commissioned in 1958 and decommissioned in 1988, one year before the 688 Attack Sub game hit the market. The seven real Soviet Alfa-class (PLA-705 Lira) boats, including the first problematic one, were named on following order: K-64, K-123, K-316, K-432, K-373, K-493 and K-463. The Soviet messages in the original game (for IBM PC and Commodore Amiga versions. Not in the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version) abuse of the letters in cyrillic while retaining th