Surface Action Series; Pacific Fleet Engagement, 2025

Surface Action Series; Pacific Fleet Engagement, 2025 This is the first in a series of surface fleet-focused scenarios that will span the entirety of the time-frame present in Command: Modern Operations. Each scenario is unrelated. -For "Surface Action Series; North Atlantic Clash, 1963" see: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362375546 -For "Surface Action Series; The Sum of All Fears, 2002" see: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3370991011 Russo-American relations chilled quickly after the brief respite provided by the collapse of the USSR. The post-Soviet economy recovered quicker than was expected, with Russia embracing an authoritarian-capitalist society led by a Sinophone-strongman. With Chinese support, the Russian military experienced a revival, and a showdown between the two biggest kids on the block became inevitable when Russia began bringing multiple post-Soviet states "back into the fold" of a nascent, in-all-but-name neo-Russian Empire. After a decade of NATO inaction, convinced America had fallen fully into isolationism, Russia, after subsuming Ukraine in 2023 after a bitter, decade-long conflict, decided to invade Poland — a NATO member — while her military was still mobilized and the nation was still on a war-footing. Article 5 has been triggered. Europe is in flames. The Pacific, largely ignored in the opening moves of this new conflict, is about to heat-up. A Russian CVBG, working-off intelligence provided by Chinese assets, is hunting a US 'light carrier' group. POTUS wishes to send a strong message to both Russia and China. The United States Navy owns the Pacific. As such, POTUS has authorized all necessary means -- short of nuclear -- to send the Red CVBG to the bottom. [All scenarios are freely available to all to use, modify, or otherwise include, as long as you are not exclusively attempting to pass the work off as your own. I would ask that you give me credit/point to this collection, but that is de