RED STORM DEFENSE STRATEGY MOVIE

There is very little real strategy involved as setup areas are confined to certain areas on the board. If you can manage to roll better than your opponent, you are certainly going to win no matter what decisions you make. To say that the outcome of the basic game is mostly governed by luck would be an understatement.

As the Warsaw Pact player, you are always hoping to gain and keep momentum as the clock ticks down towards game end. If you have an armor unit in reserve after a successful attack, it can make a breakthrough move into the vacated space and attack. If you roll a '1', the enemy is destroyed outright (if they have the same or less combat rating as the attacker). If you roll under your unit's attack rating, the enemy must do both. If you roll equal to your unit's attack rating, the enemy must retreat or take a hit (different strength units can take different numbers of hits before being destroyed). If they can roll equal to or under the attack rating of their unit, the attack succeeds. Players roll a 10-sided die to conduct an attack. Each turn in the basic game is broken down into a Warsaw Pact attack phase, Warsaw Pact movement phase, NATO movement, NATO attack, and finally a reinforcement phase. The basic rules strip all of this right down to a simple slugfest between units. There are airmobile and paratroop rules and terrain effects that also come into play. There is an air war component as well as different kinds of assets for each side to use (chemical, engineers, artillery, and armor). The advanced rules for Red Storm Rising include a surprising amount of chrome. They did, however, make allowances for those who wanted something a little deeper than just a 'roll the die' and try-your-luck game. I'm guessing they were trying to follow up the success of Axis & Allies with a wargame that would appeal to casuals. Instead of going for the traditional grognard audience, TSR went straight for the general public with the design of the game. Yes, that bit about 'Eastern Europe' irks me too. The Hunt for Red October boardgame was published in 1988 and awesomely enough, it can be combined with Red Storm Rising for one big giant game of both naval and land action to create a huge WW3 battle that you could play over the course of days. Based on the battle for Germany as depicted in the novel, this was the second boardgame to come out that was based on a Tom Clancy novel.

In 1989, we got another game based on Red Storm Rising - this time it was a boardgame. My jaw nearly hit the floor when I read that the first time around.

RED STORM DEFENSE STRATEGY MOVIE

I can't remember anything about the movie I watched last week but I can always vividly picture the scene in 'The Dance of the Vampire' where a US carrier group is severely mauled after the Soviets use drones to lure away the American interceptors from the real bomber group. In fact, I still occasionally pull my old copy from the shelf and lose myself in its pages describing huge tank battles on the northern plains of West Germany and tense submarine warfare in the Atlantic Ocean. I first read this book in 1987 as a teenager and I was immediately hooked on this genre. Not only is it a very good thriller, its depiction of naval and land warfare was heavily based on how experts and simulations predicted the military hardware might perform. Written by Tom Clancy and co-authored by Larry Bond, it was published by Putnam in 1986 and has ever since lived on as one of the best examples of the Cold-War-Turned-Hot genre. Red Storm Rising is a novel about a hypothetical WW3 fought between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the mid- to late 1980s.

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