This campaign is designed to be played primarily from the US (Blue) side.
The enclosed flow chart shows the campaign flow from the Blue perspective with each action outlined. Each mission has a distinct feel about it reflecting a key mission a mechanised combat team would, or might, be given. There are five main combat missions, assuming as the US (Blue) side you can fight your way through winning each one, if you don’t then you’ll have six actions to fight. This campaign covers a 12 hour period of intense mechanised combat which follows a US (Blue) balanced company combat team spearheading an attack against Threat (Red) mechanised forces. Question is are you as the commander up to it? The missions are designed to stretch the abilities and tactics of the Bluefor. It should be borne in mind that these Syrian forces are not Syrian as such – think of a highly trained and well equipped force such as the Russians. As such in the scenarios Syrian forces are used to represent Threat forces.
To paraphrase NTC’s mission statement: The mission of the National Training Center is to provide tough, realistic, joint and combined arms training in multi-national venues across the full spectrum of conflict set in a contemporary operating environment to assist Commanders in developing trained, competent leaders and Soldiers by presenting them with current problem sets to improve the force and prepare for success in future joint battlefields. The basic concept behind this campaign is the same as that behind the training at the US National Training Centre at Fort Irwin. Play Notes “Forging Steel” a CMSF Campaign Important: You will need the USMC module and your game patched to 1.11 to play this campaign.