(Originally posted by Martin via the Shipwreck Yahoo Group)

Wargamers know a lot about the hardware of war. They know which are the weapons to fire, the planes to fly, and the ships to sail.

Unfortunately, real war is never so tidy. No commander ever goes into battle with all of the forces that he would like, and in many cases he is lumbered with whatever can be scared up.

This scenario is designed as a training aid for gamers unused to the niceties of modern naval warfare. It features an opposed transiting of a small convoy, escorted by a naval task group that is not, shall we say, ideally what one would wish for.


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