Northern Fury - Check out the book based on CMANO scenarios

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:11 pm

We should have book #2 'Fire & Ice' ready for next years tree. [:D]

guanotwozero · Post by **guanotwozero** » Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:43 am

Oh excellent!

I've just started reading #1 and I'm loving it. The hardback should arrive in 1-2 months, so I also bought the ebook as I'm impatient!

redboot · Post by **redboot** » Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:25 am

Wondering if there is an update on the status of the audiobook. I’m looking forward to it’s release.

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:32 am

Audiobook Update - it's coming![;)]

While it hasn't been as quick as we would like, progress is good. Our voice actor Arthur Morton is doing an excellent job, it's tougher than any of us thought with so many characters and accents, but it is sounding great.

We are about 1/3rd of the way through our second round of reviews, the book is completely recorded (21 hours & ~40 min) and our fist round review was quite good. I think we are probably looking at about another 3-4 weeks of work and then through the Audible QA process which I understand can take several weeks as well.

So I cannot give you a date - the last couple of targets have come and gone so I don't want to put another one out there. It will be soon however.

Thanks for your patience and interest, this is completely new for both Joel and I but we are muddling through it as best we can.

B

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 7:51 pm

A new scenario up for testing: Northern Fury 26 Land of Fire & Ice!

Followers of book news may note a coincidence in the names.

The scenario is here ready for download and testing: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4755770

Brambo · Post by **Brambo** » Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:23 am

Just finished your book, which my wife bought me for Christmas. Wow, amazing, fantastic read. I was really impressed how the story took you from location to location as the story unfolded and put you in the shoes of the individuals involved. I spent 36 years in the Royal Air Force and 12 years of that was spent in Germany preparing for the Cold War to unleash, which thankfully it didn't. Your book would make an awesome TV series, much better than a film as with a film an awful lot of the action would have to be left out. I look forward to your next release and wish you both well.

Take care
Trev

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:47 am

Thank you for your kind words.

If you spent any time in the Bruggen/Wildenrath area or 2 ATAF, we may have driven the same paths. I was at JHQ Rheindahlen in ARRC HQ just before it moved to the UK.

Would appreciate if you could put your thoughts in an Amazon review.

Take care - back to working on book 2.

Bart

Brambo · Post by **Brambo** » Wed Feb 05, 2020 8:39 am

Hi Bart

I did two tours at Laarbruch and one tour a Bruggen so we could well of crossed paths, its a small world. My wife worked for NATO Cars and me and the guys used to drive all those new cars to Rheindahlen for the car shows. I will certainly leave a review at Amazon.

Take care and keep up the great work.

Trev

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Sat Feb 22, 2020 7:55 pm

A new blog is up on our site, it forms a companion piece to Mediterranean Fury #1 'The Road to Byzantium' where you play the Soviets in a bid to seize the entrance to the Bosporus. http://northernfury.us/blog/post24/

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:20 pm

New scenario loaded for testing: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4769153

Northern Fury 40 ‘Tongs’
16 March, 1994

Commander STRIKFLTLANT has set in motion a series of attacks designed to set up the conditions for upcoming amphibious operations in central Norway – Operation Thor’s Lightning. This is one of those actions.

This scenario is playable by NATO:

You are commanding TF 20.1 centered on a powerful two carrier Battle Group: Theodor Roosevelt and Enterprise. Your task in the final element of Operation Thor’s Lightning is to interdict the ground line of communications and C2 of the Soviet land forces in Norway. In the overall plan – You are the ‘Tongs’, and have 24 hours to conduct precision strikes in the Narvik area.

This is actually the 4th and last scenario depicting Operation Thor’s Lightning: Charge of the Light Brigade, Hammer and Anvil precede this attack by a two carrier task group. You've got some decisions to make - day or night, sweep or jab, close or stand-off. Have fun - oh and the Soviet's aren't quite dead yet...

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:50 pm

We have a Twitter poll going to see where you want the next scenario to be:

https://twitter.com/NorthernFury94/stat ... 06401?s=20

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Uzabit · Post by **Uzabit** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:11 am

Hi there,

I'm currently reading your novel and I'm really enjoying it so far.

Is there any link where I can find the cmano/cmo scenarios? The links on the first page of the thread don't work anymore.

Best,

Jonas

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:20 am

Glad you're enjoying the book.

Best place to get the scenarios is the Community Scenario Pack here: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.a ... age=1&key=

They're all in a folder at the top of the list. You can get them on Steam as well, just follow the link.

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Uzabit · Post by **Uzabit** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 8:38 pm

Thanks!

That worked. [:)]

I'm trying to replicate the F-16A vs. Su-27 engagement at the beginning of the war over Norway.

I maneuvered a group of F-16s behind one of the swarms of 8 Suchois. In the best case I downed two Su-27s and damaged another two with both F-16 shot down shortly after.

Splashing 4 of the attackers seems like a really lucky event [:D]

I think in the book the group of Su-27s was somehow separated - that should definitely change the odds a bit.

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 8:48 pm

That's a bit of a tough one - the game has matured quite a bit since Joel and I played through that sequence and it is a much harder A2A fight. I think it was ~5 years ago but Joel wrote his experiences up in an AAR on Grogheads: http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=13262.0

He did a bunch of AARs: Joel's AARs: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3912799

In fact these stories convinced me that a collaboration would work out well between us.

So I think that you're right, with the game improved as it is now, you need a lot of luck, but it does make for a good story [;)]

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:38 pm

There's a new Northern Fury Blog up at http://northernfury.us/blog/post25/

We take a look at US missile stockpiles, especially a month into the war.

Enjoy

Randomizer · Post by **Randomizer** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:21 am

Good article, the call back to the 1915 shell shortage suffered by the RA and Empire armies in WW1 is certainly appropriate. That said, the shell shortage was actually nothing of the kind and the real problem was a fuze shortage. When David Lloyd George became Minister of Munitions in May 1915 there were over 1-million unfilled 18-pounder and 4.2" howitzer shrapnel shells awaiting fuzes so that they could be filled.

It's worth noting that all Great War belligerents suffered ammunition shortages but it was exponentially worse in Britain (and inept, corrupt and bureaucratic Russia) than in Germany.

Making shrapnel shells was easy, any competent machine shop could do it and the consequences of poor quality control were unlikely to lead to catastrophic failure in the firing gun. On the other hand artillery fuzes are extremely complex, precision devices that required specialized tooling, assembly and effective quality inspection and testing regimes. Eventually precision industries like clock-making firms became the main source of supply for artillery fuzes. Also the use of Lydite (picric acid) filling complicated the problem of manufacturing high explosive shells as it is more sensitive and has a higher melting point than TNT used by the Germans. Lydite also was prone to cracking if improperly cooled and crack in an HE shell filling often result in a catastrophic failure and the destruction or damage of the firing piece. Over the course of the war hundreds of British guns would be destroyed by British ammunition bursting prematurely in the gun barrels. It is largely for these reasons that shrapnel remained the main ammunition fired by the RA until late 1916, long after the German and French artillery switched to primarily HE.

The fuze problem actually relates to the missiles because it demonstrates how the shortage of a single component in a complex system can freeze production and take considerable time to sort out unless government and industry plan war production before the shooting actually starts. It is easy to see how a shortage of something like gyroscopes could bottleneck missile production quite badly and that is just one small part of the weapon.

-C

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:48 am

Very good point C, and well made.

The Aim-54C was a classic example to illustrate this: https://www.forecastinternational.com/a ... RC_ID=1066

Serial production deliveries of the C+ began in April of 1986. Again, some problems with components supplied by subcontractors, as well as the other problems noted above, caused production/acceptance problems with this enhanced variant.

The monthly rate of production, each missile taking over two years to build, was about 30-34. That represents one medium sized engagement in CMO!

Schr75 · Post by **Schr75** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:00 pm

Hi Gunner98

I´m curious. Why does it take two years to produce a Phoenix?
It sounds like an insanely long time to build a "small" missile. I know it´s a big A2A missile but it´s small compared to other types of missiles.

What parts take so long to produce, and why does it take a year to replace a memory board?

I´m obviously missing something here, but I would never have thought it would take that long to build a Phoenix[:)]

S

Gunner98 · Post by **Gunner98** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:31 pm

Hay Schr75

Not 100% sure but the Phoenix was a pretty advanced missile for its day (1970s), considering it's capability compared to the AIM-7 - it's nearest US rival, it was probably pretty complex.. Computer manufacturing was in its infancy and I suspect the data link was a bit of black-magic to most at the time. Probably only a limited number of production facilities and they would be competing with NASA and other high end customers (like the USAF).

A year to change out a memory board sounds more like it had to go back to the manufacturing plant and get in line with new build missiles, whereas the improved system could be reprogramed on the spot.

It boggles the mind to thing how far we've come in 50 years with computing technology.

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