SMS Blücher in 1912
German Operational Situation: The German homeland is under attack and the last hope for freedom rests in the NATO forces defending Germany. A Soviet force is trying to destroy that hope. SMS Blücher failed to protect Germany once before, but will not fail again.
Tactical Situation: Through events and reasons beyond the ken of men, the crew and ship of SMS Blücher have been raised from their watery grave to protect the NATO ships upon whose survival German freedom depends. These four small but valiant ships must not perish.
German Forces: Blücher (Blücher class BC)
German Orders: Protect NATO’s underdog forces, and destroy the Russian invader.
German Victory Conditions:
Decisive: No NATO ships are sunk or crippled (damaged greater than 50%).
Tactical: No more than two NATO ships are sunk or crippled.
Setup: Having just emerged from the briny deep, there is no initial course, and speed is 0 knots.
Special Rules: Electronics interference. No shipboard electronics function within a 15 kyds radius of the ghost ship Blücher. This includes all radar, sonar, fire control, communications, navigation equipment and homing beacons (TACAN).
- 1) All guns must be fired in local control. No radar fire control system will function.
2) SAMs that can be fired in an optical mode can be used to attack Blücher.
3) All ASCMs that pass within 15 kyds of Blücher will crash into the ocean as their guidance systems are disabled.
4) Blücher’s interference looks like CW jamming to both the Soviets and NATO on radar and their ESM. However, the waveform they detect can not be correlated to any known EW gear.
5) Helicopters that come within the 15 kyds radius have a 35% chance of crashing due to a sudden loss of all electronic equipment. Aircraft engines will function, but flight instruments will not work.
6) IR sensors and seekers will not be effective - there is no temperature difference between Blücher and the natural environment.
7) Blücher is hard to identify visually with all that seaweed hanging on her. Roll D6 for each unit as it sights Blücher for the first time to see if someone on the bridge/cockpit is knowledgable about naval history. On a 1, they identify it as Blücher . On a 2, they know it’s a WW I ship.
Note: Form 10s for Peder Skram, Voge, Overijssel and Blücher are on pages 26 - 29.
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