Toaw Scenario: Germany 84

Germany,
August 01, 1984,

Warsaw Pact army of 312 units opposed to Nato army of 377 units
for a battle of complexity 1.27 at Brigade(X) level
on a 15 Km/Hex map
for 24 turns of Full Day each.

by Doug Bevard submited on 18-12-2002

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Briefing
AUGUST DAWN Hypothetical attack by the Warsaw Pact against NATO forces in West Germany. Date: August 1984 Location: West Germany Map scale: 15km per hex Time scale: 1 Day turns Unit Scale: Brigade/Division Length: 24 Turns UNIT COLORS: WARSAW PACT Army - Red on Red Guards - Pink on Red Czechoslovakia - White on Scarlet East German - Black on Grey NATO US Army - Lt. Green on Green West German - Black on Black United Kingdom - White on Tan Netherlands - Yellow on Yellow Belgium - Red on Lt. Blue Canada - Green on Tan OTHER COUNTRIES France - White on Blue Austria - Orange on Dk. Grey SIGNIFICANT EVENTS: Chance Warsaw Pact will be allowed to attack using chemical weapons. NATO formations will retaliate in kind if Pact units use chemical weapons. Chance that NATO countries will grant the use of nuclear weapons if Bonn/Dusseldorf corridor threatened. Nuclear weapons will be released to Pact formations if NATO uses such weapons. Austria will join NATO if Austrian units attacked. NATO gains 25 permanent victory points. Austrian Army will withdraw if Pact captures Salzburg. Chance that France may join NATO during scenario or if its borders are threatened. Warsaw Pact receives 20 permanent victory points for capture of Strasbourg (18,43). Warsaw Pact receives 20 permanent victory points for capture of Nancy (8,41). Warsaw Pact receives 20 permanent victory points for capture of Metz (9,38). NATO force supplies and replacements reduced if supply/replacements are captured at: Wilhelmshaven (25,5) Munster (21,16) Wiesbaden (22,32) Stuttgart (27,42) NATO gains additional force supply and replacements and 25 permanent points if NATO wins abstract battle for the sea-lanes. Warsaw Pact gains additional force supply and replacements and 50 permanent points if Warsaw Pact wins abstract battle for the sea-lanes. NATO replacements will be reduced. Chance Hungarian Army will be withdrawn if civil disorder spreads in Hungary. Chance Polish Army will be withdrawn if Polish Unions strike. ********** This hypothetical situation deals primarily with a Warsaw Pact attack in August of 1984 on NATO's central region, West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, under the command of Allied Forces Central Europe. Austria will join NATO if its units are attacked and France may also elect to join in NATO's defense sometime after the start of the scenario or if its borders are threatened. The defeat of Germany in 1945 left two massive armies facing one another in Central Europe controlled by governments with diametrically opposed philosophies and visions of what the "new world" should look like. For nearly forty years the struggle between the communist East and democratic West continued in the form of the Cold War and a number of "limited wars" fought round the globe. Meanwhile in Europe the military formations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) continued to stand ready to respond to any aggressive act of the other and just as importantly, serve as a display of the military might of each and their willingness to insure mutual destruction. The United States is the largest and most powerful member of NATO's alliance of independent and sovereign nations, but it does not automatically dominate the actions of NATO or dictate the policy of the alliance. While insuring political independence, this also creates military weaknesses in the form of no standard military doctrine and differing weapons systems. Strictly speaking the Warsaw Pact was also an alliance of independent countries, but in reality it was controlled and led by the Soviet Union. The resulting relationship had its economic consequences, but it insured that the various armies in the Warsaw Pact operated under a common doctrine and were equipped with weapons systems as directed by the Soviet Central Command. By the early eighty's the leadership of both sides had begun to slip down the dangerous path of believing that the threat of a conventional war in Europe might be the answer to gaining the political and economic goals that years of diplomatic maneuvering had failed to achieve. Following several years of agricultural and economic disasters in the eastern block countries, the Soviet government repeatedly found it necessary to make political concessions to insure that the much needed food and humanitarian shipments from the west were not interrupted. This, combined with growing discontent in Poland and increasingly more threatening policy decisions by the recently elected leaders of the United States, West Germany and the United Kingdom, convinced a dying Andropov and the Politburo of the Soviet Union that military action in Europe was the solution to their troubles. The slow slide towards a Hot War had become an unstoppable rush! There could be no question where the focus of this now inevitable conflict between the armies of the two great power blocs would occur. The battleground would be in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) where a large number of Soviet formations were positioned in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The start of summer maneuvers in mid July (code named "Summer Rain," of which the western powers had been fully notified in accord with agreements reached at the Helsinki Conference) served the communists well to train and begin full mobilization. The initial spark for the coming conflict began on July 25th, when two motorized rifle divisions and one airborne division moved into Yugoslavia from Hungry. These units were acting under a "request" for assistance from the Committee for the Direct Defense of Yugoslavia to help quell increasing levels of civil disorder and in direct opposition to the Federal Government in Belgrade. Moscow had long sought to bring an increasingly independent post-Tito Yugoslavia back into the fold of the Warsaw Pact. Now it would serve as the catalyst for Soviet plans in Central Europe. On the morning of the 27th, the first elements of the US 82nd Airborne Division began landing in Belgrade from NATO bases in Italy to help "restore order." This movement followed a statement from the American President that an agreement had been signed with the solely recognized and legitimate government of Yugoslavia for the United States and her allies to provide military and civilian advisors to help maintain the stability of the region. By the 29th, Soviet units were in action against those of the United States! Now NATO's intelligence services began to take serious notice of the larger-than-usual "exercises" being conducted within kilometers of the border in East Germany. Fearful of the consequences if the crisis in Yugoslavia got further out of hand, Washington tried to cool down the situation, but it was too late. Claiming that the West had launched what constituted an attack on a peace-loving socialist country, Moscow demanded the immediate removal of all western formations from Yugoslavia. In addition all NATO forces in West Germany were to be withdrawn to create a buffer zone against future aggression by the West. On July 31st the unified response from NATO's allied countries was clear, NO! At the same time orders flashed to NATO commanders throughout Europe: "Get your men in the field, NOW!" Near to the same instant instructions also arrived at the Front and Army headquarters of the Pact formations in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. The refusal of the West to withdraw after its unprovoked aggression justified a full-scale defensive response against NATO. On the following morning all commanders would execute the pre-planned invasion of West Germany, code-named AUGUST DAWN! Scenario design by: D Bevard

Briefing

AUGUST DAWN
Hypothetical attack by the Warsaw Pact against NATO forces in West Germany.

Date: August 1984
Location: West Germany
Map scale: 15km per hex
Time scale: 1 Day turns
Unit Scale: Brigade/Division
Length: 24 Turns

UNIT COLORS:
WARSAW PACT
Army - Red on Red
Guards - Pink on Red
Czechoslovakia - White on Scarlet
East German - Black on Grey

NATO
US Army - Lt. Green on Green
West German - Black on Black
United Kingdom - White on Tan
Netherlands - Yellow on Yellow
Belgium - Red on Lt. Blue
Canada - Green on Tan

OTHER COUNTRIES
France - White on Blue
Austria - Orange on Dk. Grey

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:
Chance Warsaw Pact will be allowed to attack using chemical weapons.
NATO formations will retaliate in kind if Pact units use chemical weapons.
Chance that NATO countries will grant the use of nuclear weapons if Bonn/Dusseldorf corridor threatened.
Nuclear weapons will be released to Pact formations if NATO uses such weapons.
Austria will join NATO if Austrian units attacked. NATO gains 25 permanent victory points.
Austrian Army will withdraw if Pact captures Salzburg.
Chance that France may join NATO during scenario or if its borders are threatened.
Warsaw Pact receives 20 permanent victory points for capture of Strasbourg (18,43).
Warsaw Pact receives 20 permanent victory points for capture of Nancy (8,41).
Warsaw Pact receives 20 permanent victory points for capture of Metz (9,38).
NATO force supplies and replacements reduced if supply/replacements are captured at:
Wilhelmshaven (25,5)
Munster (21,16)
Wiesbaden (22,32)
Stuttgart (27,42)
NATO gains additional force supply and replacements and 25 permanent points if NATO wins abstract battle for the sea-lanes.
Warsaw Pact gains additional force supply and replacements and 50 permanent points if Warsaw Pact wins abstract battle for the sea-lanes. NATO replacements will be reduced.
Chance Hungarian Army will be withdrawn if civil disorder spreads in Hungary.
Chance Polish Army will be withdrawn if Polish Unions strike.

**********

This hypothetical situation deals primarily with a Warsaw Pact attack in August of 1984 on NATO's central region, West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, under the command of Allied Forces Central Europe. Austria will join NATO if its units are attacked and France may also elect to join in NATO's defense sometime after the start of the scenario or if its borders are threatened.

The defeat of Germany in 1945 left two massive armies facing one another in Central Europe controlled by governments with diametrically opposed philosophies and visions of what the "new world" should look like. For nearly forty years the struggle between the communist East and democratic West continued in the form of the Cold War and a number of "limited wars" fought round the globe. Meanwhile in Europe the military formations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) continued to stand ready to respond to any aggressive act of the other and just as importantly, serve as a display of the military might of each and their willingness to insure mutual destruction.

The United States is the largest and most powerful member of NATO's alliance of independent and sovereign nations, but it does not automatically dominate the actions of NATO or dictate the policy of the alliance. While insuring political independence, this also creates military weaknesses in the form of no standard military doctrine and differing weapons systems. Strictly speaking the Warsaw Pact was also an alliance of independent countries, but in reality it was controlled and led by the Soviet Union. The resulting relationship had its economic consequences, but it insured that the various armies in the Warsaw Pact operated under a common doctrine and were equipped with weapons systems as directed by the Soviet Central Command.

By the early eighty's the leadership of both sides had begun to slip down the dangerous path of believing that the threat of a conventional war in Europe might be the answer to gaining the political and economic goals that years of diplomatic maneuvering had failed to achieve. Following several years of agricultural and economic disasters in the eastern block countries, the Soviet government repeatedly found it necessary to make political concessions to insure that the much needed food and humanitarian shipments from the west were not interrupted. This, combined with growing discontent in Poland and increasingly more threatening policy decisions by the recently elected leaders of the United States, West Germany and the United Kingdom, convinced a dying Andropov and the Politburo of the Soviet Union that military action in Europe was the solution to their troubles. The slow slide towards a Hot War had become an unstoppable rush!

There could be no question where the focus of this now inevitable conflict between the armies of the two great power blocs would occur. The battleground would be in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) where a large number of Soviet formations were positioned in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The start of summer maneuvers in mid July (code named "Summer Rain," of which the western powers had been fully notified in accord with agreements reached at the Helsinki Conference) served the communists well to train and begin full mobilization. The initial spark for the coming conflict began on July 25th, when two motorized rifle divisions and one airborne division moved into Yugoslavia from Hungry. These units were acting under a "request" for assistance from the Committee for the Direct Defense of Yugoslavia to help quell increasing levels of civil disorder and in direct opposition to the Federal Government in Belgrade.

Moscow had long sought to bring an increasingly independent post-Tito Yugoslavia back into the fold of the Warsaw Pact. Now it would serve as the catalyst for Soviet plans in Central Europe. On the morning of the 27th, the first elements of the US 82nd Airborne Division began landing in Belgrade from NATO bases in Italy to help "restore order." This movement followed a statement from the American President that an agreement had been signed with the solely recognized and legitimate government of Yugoslavia for the United States and her allies to provide military and civilian advisors to help maintain the stability of the region. By the 29th, Soviet units were in action against those of the United States!

Now NATO's intelligence services began to take serious notice of the larger-than-usual "exercises" being conducted within kilometers of the border in East Germany. Fearful of the consequences if the crisis in Yugoslavia got further out of hand, Washington tried to cool down the situation, but it was too late. Claiming that the West had launched what constituted an attack on a peace-loving socialist country, Moscow demanded the immediate removal of all western formations from Yugoslavia. In addition all NATO forces in West Germany were to be withdrawn to create a buffer zone against future aggression by the West. On July 31st the unified response from NATO's allied countries was clear, NO! At the same time orders flashed to NATO commanders throughout Europe: "Get your men in the field, NOW!"

Near to the same instant instructions also arrived at the Front and Army headquarters of the Pact formations in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. The refusal of the West to withdraw after its unprovoked aggression justified a full-scale defensive response against NATO. On the following morning all commanders would execute the pre-planned invasion of West Germany, code-named AUGUST DAWN!

Scenario design by: D Bevard