Surface Action Series; North Atlantic Clash, 1963

Surface Action Series; North Atlantic Clash, 1963 This is the second in a series of surface fleet-focused scenarios that will span the entirety of the time-frame present in Command: These scenarios are not related. -For "Surface Action Series; Pacific Fleet Engagement, 2025" see: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355921564 -For "Surface Action Series; The Sum of All Fears, 2002" see: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3370991011 The fragile peace of the post-World War II world has been shattered. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was merely the prelude to a full-scale confrontation between the superpowers. A U. S. RF-8 reconnaissance flight was shot-down over a Cuban-Soviet missile site, prompting a limited and conventional retaliatory strike by the U. S. on various Cuban command-and-control assets. In-return, a U. S. destroyer in the Pacific was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine ‘wolf-pack.’ The U. S. public, now baying for Red blood, forced POTUS’ hand. In mid-1963, after several months of stalled and failed negotiations, a full-scale air campaign was launched over Cuba, decimating their military capabilities within hours, and killing dozens, if not hundreds of Soviet advisors. The Soviet Union withdrew from the United Nations after a move to condemn the United States’ actions was rejected. After Soviet diplomats were withdrawn from all NATO and Western-aligned nations, a deeply uneasy peace fell over the world for several months, with the USSR insisting that a “de facto state of war” now existed between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Finland quickly joined NATO in the intervening months, with the British press having dubbed the nascent Third World War instead as the "Second Phony War." In the early hours of a cold October morning, Warsaw Pact forces crossed the Iron Curtain, stalling-out in central Germany, but overrunning northern Finland and most of Norway. Emboldened by their hold of the northern Nordic nations, a large S