Northern Europe / Scandinavia Sourcebook

[cawest]

i would suggest that some of the rail road junction or bridge might be hit with F-111 or Su-24 or SF strike. one or two harbors might have had certain parts blocked with sunk ships that will take time to clear. maybe had one or two "seeded" with chemical weapons.

[Lurken]

Originally Posted by cawest

i would suggest that some of the rail road junction or bridge might be hit with F-111 or Su-24 or SF strike. one or two harbors might have had certain parts blocked with sunk ships that will take time to clear. maybe had one or two "seeded" with chemical weapons.

Good suggestions! I'll factor that in.

I was just a bit lazy with the nukes, because I went with the description of Norway in Boomer



So I felt a bit obliged to sprinkle nukes over Denmark as well, if not more due to the vicinity to the main battle theater of Central Europe.

[Trooper]

Some ideas for Finland.

Rovaniemi Airport is public airport and it’s also airbase for Lapland Air Command. In the air base area, there is also Army Air Defense Regiment.
There is also saying that “Finland is an island”. You can find harbors in small towns and its quite common that even factories and mines have their own harbors. Nuking Turku harbor won’t hurt logistics because next harbor is in Naantali (15 kilometers from Turku).

Probably NATO would like to destroy Kemi (two harbors) and Oulu (no less than four harbors). During cold war there were fears that Soviet Union could use those harbors to invade Sweden.

[Lurken]

Originally Posted by Trooper

Some ideas for Finland.

Rovaniemi Airport is public airport and it’s also airbase for Lapland Air Command. In the air base area, there is also Army Air Defense Regiment.
There is also saying that “Finland is an island”. You can find harbors in small towns and its quite common that even factories and mines have their own harbors. Nuking Turku harbor won’t hurt logistics because next harbor is in Naantali (15 kilometers from Turku).

Probably NATO would like to destroy Kemi (two harbors) and Oulu (no less than four harbors). During cold war there were fears that Soviet Union could use those harbors to invade Sweden.

Thank you for the information. Yea, in my current draft I have soviets nuking Oulu. After that they during the conventional part of the war bombed it to deny Finland ease of reinforcement to hamper their ability to harass them on the flank as the soviets push towards Norway through Sweden and Finland.

Currently I had NATO nuking one of the major harbors on Gotland to deny that to the russians, but Kemi is a good candidate.

Also, since you seem to have a little more info on Finland. I am thinking about having three "Marauder Kings" in the greater Lapland area. They would be in Kiruna, Haparanda and Rovaniemi. Atleast the "king" in Kiruna would be from the Soviets, as the majority of his men.

[cawest]

what if the Russians take an island like Isosaari to cut off Finland ports. who took it out with a nuK? fingers point but it was a fishing boat with a nuk in the bottom hull.

[Trooper]

Originally Posted by Lurken

I am thinking about having three "Marauder Kings" in the greater Lapland area. They would be in Kiruna, Haparanda and Rovaniemi. Atleast the "king" in Kiruna would be from the Soviets, as the majority of his men.

In Lapland area most marauder bands should be quite small. Ten-man crew can easily take over a farm. Larger groups can take over small village. After all you need shelter and food during winter. Population density is very low in Lapland and in 2000-2001 marauder bands larger than 100 men are thing of past.

Former military units can carve small semi-feudal states that control 10 000 – 20 000 square kilometer areas. In Finland most probable place is Sodankyla, its also home of Jaeger Brigade. Probably area can support 500-1000 men unit