"Operation Thunderbolt 2" Topic
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25 Mar 2013 1:47 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "Operation Thunerbolt 2" to "Operation Thunderbolt 2"
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| jeffbird | 25 Mar 2013 10:58 a.m. PST |
Hi guys,
I'm having some thougths of doing a "What If Operation Thunderbolt 2 wargame". I still want it as a Long Range Rescue mission somewhere in Africa, so my question is which African country would be a good country to base the game in and what about Hamas or ultra right wing jewish extremists as the terrorists? Cheers Jeff |
| Milites | 25 Mar 2013 11:57 a.m. PST |
How about a raid on an Iranian nuke facility? |
| jeffbird | 25 Mar 2013 12:11 p.m. PST |
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 Saber6   | 25 Mar 2013 1:01 p.m. PST |
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| Mako11 | 25 Mar 2013 1:16 p.m. PST |
Current day Egypt will fit the bill nicely. |
| Milites | 25 Mar 2013 1:18 p.m. PST |
I was in Israel when the TWA hijacking was happening, there was a rumour Israel was going in to save them, Cue the country being on high alert for 1-2 weeks. Could model a scenario like that, perhaps the terrorists have unwittingly captured an Israeli VIP, the race is on to rescue them, before the terrorists identify them. Hard to do in the ipad everybody is wired age though, unless it's somewhere remote, like Chad or Mali |
| jeffbird | 25 Mar 2013 2:16 p.m. PST |
I'll be gaming it initially at 3mm/6mm and using Mechanised Warfare Rules by Andrew Thomas.
I was thinking of a flight between South Africa and Israel and landing in Congo DR. Covers my long range rescue and keeps it in Africa.
Final question, is there any 3mm/6mm C17 Globemaster, Airbus A400m and the proposed brazilian C390 models available? If not i'll have to do with C130's. Cheers Jeff |
| jeffbird | 25 Mar 2013 3:01 p.m. PST |
So where abouts in Africa are Bongolesia and the Sultanate of Ifat supposed to be? Jeff |
| jeffbird | 25 Mar 2013 3:42 p.m. PST |
Cheers for that. Possible candidates for the country, lol. |
| Cerberus0311 | 25 Mar 2013 11:01 p.m. PST |
If they jailed MJS there, then things have really gone in the pot. |
| slugbalancer | 26 Mar 2013 6:07 a.m. PST |
See here for 6mm C-17. link |
| jeffbird | 27 Mar 2013 11:39 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the link Slugger. |
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