S3 Series

THE WINTER WAR

Frame 1

November 1939

Comrades,

There has been a nonaggression pact between Finland and our beloved Union since 1932.

Now Germany has invaded Poland.

We have simply asked Finland to push our border on the Kerelian Isthmus westward in an attempt to buttress the security of Leningrad from potential German attack.

We have quite fairly asked for a few small islands in the Gulf of Finland and to secure a 30 year lease for a naval base at Hangö in exchange for Soviet land in the North.

Finland has coldly refused our simple and fair request for security.


We must provide security for Leningrad and therefore have no choice but to take this land by force.

Before we can move troops we need to quickly suppress the Finnish defenses at Vyborg, Kotka and Helsinki.


Your orders:

Close F77 at Helsinki (0.0.7) and destroy 20 (50%) of ai targets (40 total aaa and Gv's)
Destroy 24 (75%) of ai targets at Kotka (2.1.7) (32 total aaa and Gv's)
Destroy 24 (75%) of ai targets at Vyborg (3.2.6) (32 total aaa and Gv's)

Good luck Comrades. I congratulate you on your inevitable success.

For Bonus Points. Notice there are train tracks on the map. Both sides have 2 trains running during the frame. Trains deliver food, ammo, troops and fuel. Knock out the trains for bonus points. (train is a trail of 8 GV's with a light armored vehicle as the engine. They will obviously be traveling on the tracks. But watch out! there just might be a aaa gun on the train!)



+NOTE: From my testing, the ai AAA must be manned by blind troops as the aiming is pretty bad...so you shouldn't have to worry too much about the amount of AAA.

Liked the write up for the mission, NOOKY! Any other details?

Darryl,
The details are up to the Allied COs to sort out.
Point values for achieving objectives haven't been posted yet (I've been slow)

I'd suggest the first sortie focus on the AI targets at Vyborg as it is outside of Axis dar coverage.

Scoring posted in the general forum.

Suggest we concentrate on one target until the mission objective criteria are met.
Priorities
1) Vyborg AI - closest to our airfields and outside of Finnish radar
2) Kotka AI -
3) Helsinki (F77)

WE may also have to look out for Finns capping our forward airfield.,

Ummm, yeah. Are you trying to emulate your inner Jabo?

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Nick