New Command scenario: The Lobster War
Database – CWDB
Author – Miguel Molina ‘Meroka37’
Email –meroka37@yahoo.com
Brazil vs. France
Date/Time: 3rd May, 1962 / 12:00:00 Zulu
Location: Brazilian coast
Playable Sides: Brazil
In 1961 a conflict on lobster fishing in the Pernambuco Brazilian state coast between French fishermen turned out in French Navy sending the destroyer Tartu to the area with the mission of escorting the fishermen; the Brazilian Navy dispatched some ships to repel the French destroyer, later the Brazilian navy apprehended the French vessel Cassiopée off the Brazilian coast on 2 January 1962.
The so called ‘Lobster War’ was taken to International Courts.
This scenario is a ‘What-If’, the conflict turned out into an armed conflict.
To Cmdr Brazilian forces
French navy has sent a carrier group to enforce the exclusion zone around their fishermen, use all available assets to repel this aggression to our territorial waters, if the enemy losses are relevant they will probably leave the area.
There is no civil shipping transiting the area of conflict, all vessels have change their path to avoid it.
Good luck!
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