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Steel Panthers 2| Date: December 24, 1996, Alaska (somewhere between the town of Barrou and Prudhoe Bay). On the Eve of Christmas 1996, Russia's President, Boris Yeltsin is killed. A new pro-communist dictator is empowered, and Russia decides, as its first new bold communist act, to take control of the U.S. Trans-Alaskan pipeline, thereby cutting off fuel supplies to the West. An invasion force is sent through the Bering Straight, which maneuvers to the Northeastern point of Alaska. The Russian's target is Prudhoe Bay, which would give them full control of the Northeastern end of the pipeline. The invasion is a success, and the Russians move into the town of Barrou, about 20 miles Northwest of the pipeline. American units of the 10th Infantry Division (Mountain) from Fort Greely, and National Guard units stationed at Fort Richardson for training exercises, are deployed into the Prudhoe Bay area, as well as local National Guard units of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades (Alaskan Recon). This scenario takes place as the American units and the Russians are about to engage in fierce fighting. The U.S. objective is to destroy all of the Russian units in Barrou, and keep them from reaching Prudhoe Bay at all costs. The Russian objective is to destroy the American forces, and take the pipeline intact.
Steel Panthers 2| Date: July 6, 1997, NTC (National Training Center), Fort Irwin, Mojave Desert, California. The age old question has always been asked: Who is the better unit, the United States Army, or the United States Marines? Leaders at the NTC, along with certain members in the White House want to know too. It's the Army versus the Marines in a no holds barred shootout to see who is the better man! This ain't football boys!
Steel Panthers 2| Date: June 23rd, 1997, an unknown location in a faraway land. This is #1 in a series of scenarios designed to concentrate on Stinger MANPADS team tactics. You are in control of an entire platoon of Stinger MANPADS teams, of 1st Plt, B-Battery, 1/202nd Air Defense Artillery Battalion, 66th Brigade, 34th Infantry Division. Each team includes a Team Leader (Sgt), a Gunner (SP4), and a Stinger MANPADS Humvee. Your objective, in this scenario, is to protect an armored column moving from the West to Southeast. The teams have been positioned in a prepositioning overwatch configuration, and small bands of enemy armor, infantry, and helicopters are the only things you have to worry about! First To Fire, Sir!
Steel Panthers 2| Date: July 18, 1998, Syria (somewhere in a remote section of the Syrian desert). On our nation's day of Independence, Iraqi supporters and Syrian terrorists decide to hijack a United Nations plane out of LAX Airport, Los Angeles. The plane is carrying the U.N. security council, which is headed for Iraq. The plane is taken to Syria, and the hostages are taken into a remote part of the Syrian desert. On "alert status" is the ultra-secret anti-terrorist force, known as DELTA. The U.S. decides to send in Delta, to get the council back. The unit is ordered into the situation, and transports men and equipment through specially-designed Blackhawk helicopters. In support are two AH-64D attack helicopters, and two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft. The unit's mission is to make an assault on the terrorist compound, and remove any United Nations personnel from the premises.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 5, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. ARTEP exercises for the 44th Infantry Brigade. The mission of the 44th Infantry Brigade (Red Team) is to take all key bridges, reach and occupy the MP Training Facility, and take the Ammunition Dump in-tact. Can you reach your objectives before (Blue Team) the enemy does? This is ONLY day one of a 10-day ficticious ARTEP, set in the woodsy area of Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 6, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The 44th Bde clashes with OPFOR for the control of a hill...Hill #207. This time the OPFOR has at least a 2-3 superiority over the brigade. The OPFOR contains airborne elements, as well as MRC (Motor Rifle Company) and Tank Company elements. The scenario starts out with units of the 44th Bde coming across a bridge, where they encounter light resistance. They post security forces at the bridge, where the bridge is to be held intact, and they then make their way up the hill. There they are met with heavy resistance.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 7, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. A second attempt at Hill #207 is made, this time with the 44th Bde being reinforced by air assault elements of the 101st Air Assault Div, as well as mixed rocket and gun artillery of the 66th Bde, and helicopter units of the 133rd Aviation Bde, Fort Hood, TX... However, the OPFOR has also reinforced itself with two Abn Inf companies, and 2 tank companies, of which include front line armor and anti-armor defenses. It will still be very difficult to take hill #207 from the enemy.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 8, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. With many reinforcements, the 44th Bde now has the advantage of air support and anti-aircraft units, and uses them exclusively to take out the enemy's resupply planes. The OPFOR units are now low on fuel and ammo, and their food provisions are getting scarce as well. Small bands of units will try to break through the brigade's lines in order to reach a forward resupply point, which is currently held by minimal OPFOR units. The 44th's next task is to assign their artillery support to wipe out the resupply point. However, the commander of the brigade does not feel this will be enough alone to cut the enemy's morale and attrition. In addition to the artillery barrages, the commander sends in a cavalry company, complete with tanks and air support, to wipe out what is remaining of the resupply point, as well as what units the enemy manages to get across their lines, after the artillery has had their turn of course.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 9, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The 44th Bde is back at it again, this time in a more successful position to take hill #207 intact. The OPFOR has been cut down to nothing, so this should be a clean-up for the brigade. Small bands of armor and infantry are all the brigade has to worry about in this round.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 10, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. A mixed OPFOR band of tank and infantry platoons have taken a small facility, and it is up to a small team of Special Forces and Ranger infantry, supported by a tank platoon and two helicopters for support, to take it back in one piece. This begins the small unit battle phase of ARTEP 1997.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 11, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. A Special Forces A-team detachment, with a few light vehicles for support, is on a reconnaissance mission near the lake, when spotted by an enemy patrol. The patrol has alerted other units in the area to their presence, and now it is the job of the detachment to get themselves back to headquarters with the vital information they have gathered, without getting the hell blown out of them. The detachment has the advantage of air support in the form of Blackhawk helicopters and Apache gunships. Bring the A-team home in one piece.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 12, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. A Stinger MANPADS platoon is integrated into a resupply convoy for the 44th Bde. The resupply convoy is supposed to rendezvous with elements of the 123rd Field Artillery, resupply the unit, and then move on. Here, the convoy begins to pick up support units of armor and mechanized infantry, and continues to move to the designated headquarters area, which is part of a foward resupply unit held by the 44th Bde. Enemy air support and tank units are in the areas between the Field Artillery's positions and the forward resupply. To make matters worse, the enemy has managed to mine some areas, making it even more difficult to maneuver to the designated area.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 13, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Another day of small unit battles goes on around the Fort McCoy area. Two infantry platoons, with integrated Stinger MANPADS (dismounted) teams must move in and take an area that is supposed to be heavily infested with enemy infantry. In support are two Field Artillery units, as well as an attack helicopter wing. An infantry reconnaissance unit is also in the area to give support in the form of mounted Hummwv with TOW and M60 machine guns. The TOWs might come in handy, as there are some armored units also in the area in support of the enemy infantry.
Steel Panthers 3| Date: August 14, 1997, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Finally the last day in the ARTEP exercises. The mission is critical on this day, and enemy units are at full strength. At dawn, enemy units parachuted into the area, taking many key roads and bridges. The 44th Bde has been tasked with the objective of clearing and taking back the control of the roads for their resupply network. Many areas will be mined and chemical weapons have been used to keep control of the roads. The enemy's strength comes in the form of several tank and infantry companies, and they have also managed to secure artillery and air support. The majority of smoke rounds are chemical gas! This ends the 1997 ARTEP of the 44th Infantry Brigade.
Steel Panthers 2| Date: April 23, 1998, Fort Benning, Georgia. The following 4 scenarios follow a Hummwv-mounted scout company of a light infantry division. The unit is on its annual maneuvers at Fort Benning, GA. These scenarios are somewhat strange, in that they never truly engage the enemy unless they are seen. Of course, that is exactly what a scout company does. They come as close to the enemy and their positions as possible, without being detected. However, in some of these scenarios, the unit does come under fire. Only after being fired upon, according to the rules of engagement for a scout company, do you engage the enemy. In this scenario you will scout a tank company's positions and engage small bands of infantry. Remember, you aren't that well armored, and it's best if you use the terrain to mask your movement. I have upgraded the weapons capability of the Hummwv's, so the enemy tanks don't wipe the floor with your face. There are a lot of rolling hills in this scenario, and it is best if you use those to your advantage. Follow the victory hexes, and you should do fine. Please note, this scenario is NOT one-sided. It is possible to achieve a victory by playing either side, and this has been thoroughly tested.
Steel Panthers 2| Date: April 24, 1998, Fort Benning, Georgia. You did great on the last mission, now its up to you to scout enemy patrols in the forward area, as well as a secondary mission of locating an attack helicopter wing, so the artillery can wipe it out. Several infantry units have been hacked to death because of this attack helicopter wing, and Brigade HQ wants them found and taken out ASAP. Use your scout company as foward observers to spot for the artillery. When you scout the patrols, you have an M1A2 tank platoon as support against the enemy's infantry and armor.
Steel Panthers 2| Date: April 25, 1998, Fort Benning, Georgia. Congratulations! Your entire unit has been put in for a citation, and I hear promotion is coming up! Anyhow, here's another mission that will put your talent to great use. Brigade Command has lost a few of its leaders to an ambush on road #10, outside of the perimeter to the ammunition dump. Word has it that a renegade band of mercenaries, with light armored vehicle capability, has taken the brass hostage in exchange for safe passage to another country. While our country does not give into the demands of terrorists, we would just as soon have this go away. Your mission is to scout for the mercenaries, and report back to HQ, where we will dispatch a hostage rescue team and take out the bad guys! Good luck! Just follow the victory hexes and you will be fine.
Steel Panthers 2| Date: April 26, 1998, Fort Benning, Georgia. Okay, this is the end of your trials here at Benning. This one is a little more complicated, but worthwhile of you and your men. Enemy units have taken a town and have dug themselves in for heavy fighting. The town is a key link to going on to further territory, which must not be allowed to fall into enemy hands. We are up against a wall in this situation, because to take the town back, we need to know the enemy's strengths and weaknesses. You will be a point unit for a combined arms force being sent into the area to take back the town. You will see action in this one; it is inevitable! However, with all those tanks and infantry units, you will not be alone on this one. Again, good luck!
NEW! Steel Panthers 3 Campaign!
BLOOD AGAINST THE STARS!!
Blood Against The Stars is a new set of 15 battles spanning the second Civil War in the United States. Much house-to-house fighting and many Urban combat engagements in this series, including a battle for control of the Mississippi river! This time the trouble starts in the West and escalates till Los Angeles is under martial law. Soon after, the anarchy spreads Eastward, till finally it reaches the East Coast. It's brother against brother, and sister against sister, as the "unthinkable" happens a second time! Don't miss Blood Against The Stars, coming soon!
