If you’re building a scenario around the interwar American War Plan Orange, you should also look into the interwar Japanese doctrine of Kantai Kessen. Orange and Kantai Kessen reflected each other nicely, in that both envisioned the US fleet sailing west into Japanese waters, where the two fleets would engage in a Mahan-style decisive battle…which, however, each side expected to win. Japanese plans envisioned significant attrition of the US fleet along the way (chiefly by submarines, I think), prior to the main event (an old-fashioned slugging match between battleships).
Interesting possible WW3 scenarios during the 1980's
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While this is interesting information, it would be a long road to go from these scenarios to games with special rules, set-ups, turn orders, etc…
Good background item, not quite game-ready.
-Midnight_Reaper
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Read then pages 39 to about 42. Indications show clearly numbers of divisions and reinforcement rates over time. So if WW3 broke out in the late 1980’s , you would have some raw info on how each could produce and deploy.
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Iiiyyyeee there you go IL, a Western Front game u can make a map and do a setup.
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1980’s however was a strange time for both sides and NATO and USSR were losing allies left and right and neither side wanted to engage in conflict so both sides tried to downsize their military while also trying to scare the other side.
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