Division Cuba Revisited

[Olefin]

I found it interesting. I may actually may use for coming up with scenarios for using my micro armor, as it would match the forces that I have nicely. I always had too much Soviet and American equipment if it was just The Mexicans/Division Cuba and the smattering of US forces. If you add the Cubans and don't deploy US forces to Jugoslavia in 1998, larger armor battles (of the type I would like to simulate) become more logical. It also gives me an excuse to try to model an American town in addition to all the Central/Eastern European stuff I have.

I could give my French equipment to the Mexicans and explain my small amount for British/German/Chinese forces as being similar to:
British 1/The Cheshire Regiment
British 1/The Royal Hampshire Regiment
West German 81st Panzer Grenadier Battalion
West German 53rd Panzer Battalion

which canon has in Canada for training. (Does anyone know the source for this off hand, I totally forgot, but they are in my databases). Having them training at FT Hood instead would add them to the mix.

arent those units in the Canada magazine article if I remember right

[Panther Al]

I found it interesting. I may actually may use for coming up with scenarios for using my micro armor, as it would match the forces that I have nicely. I always had too much Soviet and American equipment if it was just The Mexicans/Division Cuba and the smattering of US forces. If you add the Cubans and don't deploy US forces to Jugoslavia in 1998, larger armor battles (of the type I would like to simulate) become more logical. It also gives me an excuse to try to model an American town in addition to all the Central/Eastern European stuff I have.

I could give my French equipment to the Mexicans and explain my small amount for British/German/Chinese forces as being similar to:
British 1/The Cheshire Regiment
British 1/The Royal Hampshire Regiment
West German 81st Panzer Grenadier Battalion
West German 53rd Panzer Battalion

which canon has in Canada for training. (Does anyone know the source for this off hand, I totally forgot, but they are in my databases). Having them training at FT Hood instead would add them to the mix.

Not sure about the German Units, but it probably wouldn't take too much handwavium to say that at the least the British Units was moved to say, NTC, for workups before joining up with British Forces in the Middle East before things went pear shaped.

[Rainbow Six]

arent those units in the Canada magazine article if I remember right

That's correct. I can't recall the issue number off hand but it was one of the first Challenge magazines to be published after Twilight 2000 was launched (iirc same issue also had a mini adventure set in Iran entitled Shell Game). Both the UK and Germany have permanent bases in Canada - the British at Suffield, Alberta and the Germans at Shilo, Manitoba.

[Adm.Lee]

Now that is a great idea - having the Cubans actually help the US out by taking on NA! In my campaign we actually allied with the Cubans on Grenada to take out the NA sponsored pirates off of Grenada and then helped them get home. You could see them getting home and telling their commanders that NA is bad news - that they are a threat to not only the US but to Cuba and that they had to be stopped before they got too strong.

The idea about the oil platforms also is a good one - they are abandoned so the Cubans could salvage them and put them back into operation - maybe even offer MilGov or CivGov a share of the oil in return for the Cubans "protecting" the oil platforms from pirates or marauders.

Not to mention the Cubans might have enough boats available to try and start up some influence-building by trading all over Florida. Not conquest, but certainly building friendly ties. We've seen that the post-Castro junta there is not willing to fight the Yankees directly, but maybe a soft approach

Now, if that carrier hulk that some of us are talking about is still grounded off Key West as a MilGov (Navy) outpost, we have the workings of a Gulf campaign.