3rd Fleet 1990 Victory Games

	3rd Fleet	1990	Victory Games
	First produced	1990	Players	1 to 2	Age(s)

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3 x map sheets, 22" x 32"
2 x strategic air displays
2 x charts / tables booklets
2 x logistics roster pads
2 x display cards
480 x 0.625" counters
260 x 0.5" counters
1 x ten sided dice
1 x counter storage tray
1 x rules booklet

A game of contemporary naval warfare in the Caribbean Sea, North Pacific and East Atlantic oceans.
3rd Fleet is actually 3 games in 1, for each ocean. Players control surface ships, submarines and aircraft. Each unit is carefully evaluated in 10 different areas of modern naval combat.
Players must protect their forces from weapons such as smart bombs, surface-to-surface missiles and torpedoes whilst trying to damage the enemy.

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Playing time is 1 to 4 hours for introductory scenarios but may take 9 hours or more for advanced scenarios. The game is complex and suitable for solitaire play.

Special game features;
- US navy is allied to navies from UK , Canada , France , Netherlands , Spain , Portugal , Belgium , West Germany , Denmark , Norway and Sweden .
- Soviet navy is allied to navies from Cuba , Poland and East Germany .
- Latin American navies are Columbia , Venezuela , Argentina and Brazil .
- Combat Systems; torpedo, cruise missile, surface-to-surface missile, anti-submarine warfare, bombing, air-to-air and close combat.
- Other; off-map airfields, US Air force stealth fighters, torpedo decoys, new soviet Tbilisi class aircraft carrier, long range SAMs, US coastguard cutters, KC- 135 and KA-6 air refuelling tankers, new US seawolf class submarines, sea-skimmer and fast SSMs, minesweepers and US navy RH-53 minesweeping choppers, in-port and at-sea replenishment, docking, darkness and weather, commando raids, satellite detection, high air mission profile, co-ordinated air strikes and US stand-off ASW attacks.

Basic Game;
9 scenarios, played on one map, rated at 3 levels of complexity;
Scenario 1: Soviet raiders in the Caribbean.
Scenario 2: Soviet commandos in the Aleutians.
Scenario 3: Interdiction of soviet North Atlantic convoys.
Scenario 4: The Latin America war.
Scenario 5: US amphibious assault against Komandorskye Islands.
Scenario 6: The battle of the Atlantic.
Scenario 7: The battle of the Baltic.
Scenario 8: World War 3 in the Caribbean.
Scenario 9: Soviet Aleutian offensive.

Advanced Game;
3 scenarios, played on one map;
Scenario 10: 3rd Fleet offensive in the North Pacific.
Scenario 11: Cuban missile crisis, 1990s version.
Scenario 12: Soviet offensive in the North Atlantic.