First Clash 1985 (conversion from SP2)

[MarkSheppard]

Found this in Hapschott's SP2 Scenario Collection here:

http://www.alternatewars.com/Games/S...t_sp2_scen.zip

Anyway; this scenario depicts the actions of the 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (4 CMBG) during a fictional war in June 1985 as shown in the Kenneth Macksey book "First Clash" which I bought long ago.

The map was converted over from SP2 to WinSP fairly painlessly by Fred Chlanda's WW2Map, but the OOBs and their locations had to be redone by hand; as SPMBT is a lot more granular than SP2; and more information on Soviet forces is available now than during 1997 (which is when the scenario was made).

Contained in the zipfile are:

SCEN034.xxx -- The original SP2 scenario files if you have a spare copy of SP2 lying around.

spscn400.xxx -- The WinSPMBT converted scenario files.

This is still very rough -- version 0.5 level; playtesting needs to be done and fiddling around to get everything to the right feel.

Estimated time to convert: Maybe about 3-4 hours. I'd be able to do it in less if I wasn't so concerned about maintaining as close a feel to the original scenario.