Baltic Fury 1 Storm the Gates! 1994

Baltic Fury 1 Storm the Gates! 1994 13 Feb 1994. This is the first scenario of a 5 scenario campaign. Baltic Fury is very closely linked to the Northern Fury campaign. You can explore the situation on the webpage read the Northern Fury background document for further insight. The key nuggets · Cold War continued, no thaw in relations. Germany is unified but somewhat unstable, the Warsaw Pact (WP) still active but somewhat less of a force than it was in the 1980s · Two days ago, 11 Feb 1994 there was a bloody coup in Warsaw. Hard liners seized power from the struggling reformist Solidarity government. There has been little news but it seems Soviet troops have been called in to assist in stabilizing the country. · Yesterday, 12 Feb 1994, the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, opened with ominous indications of trouble brewing. Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries were thinly represented at the opening ceremonies and many of their athletes were not present at the start of the actual events this morning. The Russian Olympic village was empty and initial investigation found that many of the athletes had simply disappeared, while only a few had flown home. Norway ordered the IOC to cancel the games and evacuate the Olympic Village. · Norway, Denmark and several other countries have called up their reserves, deployed forces to forward bases. Norway, Germany and Turkey have requested support from NATO. There is an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) this evening. · It is now early afternoon on 13 Feb 1994. You are the commander NATO’s BALTAP (Baltic Approaches) Command. BALTAP is a joint force of land, sea and air forces arrayed specifically to keep hostile WP forces bottled up in the Baltic Sea. Your forces are primarily Danish and German but some NATO reinforcements can be expected. The restricted waters in the western Baltic funnel hostile forces directly to the island of Zeeland and Copenhagen itself. One thing is certain, there will be a lot of combat power