The bad news came on Thursday.  Tim couldn’t make it to our annual Labor Day Weekend wargaming/college football blow-out.  His pup, Crater, was not doing well and putting her in a kennel was out of the question.

Had just finished setting up the maps and sorting the counters for Storm Over Scandanavia’s Campaign for Sweden Scenario.  Might as well make the best of it.

This is a hypothetical German attack after the Fall of Fance.  The timeframe is July-September 1940.

An infantry affair, with very limited armored resources for both sides.  The Germans do have air superiority and a wealth of General Support air assets.  This advantage is mitigated by wooded/lake terrain.  To make things even more challenging, much of the German commander’s combat power is in the extreme north of Norway, and will have to work its way south, or be railed to a more central position.

The Swedish set-up is mandated by their mobilization region (MR).  There are also garrisons in each region.  They are immediately activated once Germans enter the area, or activiated during the initial phase if the Germans are adjacent to the region.

All victory point calculations aside, the Germans must take Stockholm.  The Swedish deployment has made an amphibious attack (using rail ferries!), implausible.  As mentioned, a northern axis of advance will take too much time.  So the main effort, using three corps, will be through west-central Sweden with axes of advance channelized by lakes and terrain.

Should be interesting.  Here’s a quick photo of the setup.