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The year is 1965 and the Cold War has entered it's most fraught and perilous moment. A Soviet Yak-27 has just crash landed on the remote Svalbard islands after a daring covert overflight of NATO bases in Greenland.
Read moreThe year is 1965 and the Cold War has entered it's most fraught and perilous moment. A Soviet Yak-27 has just crash landed on the remote Svalbard islands after a daring covert overflight of NATO bases in Greenland. Tensions have skyrocketed as NATO demands answers from the Soviet Union, but the Kremlin remains ominously silent. As the standoff intensifies, NATO has mobilized a formidable force to counter any emerging threats from the Soviets. Intelligence suggests that Warsaw Pact forces are scrambling to recover the aircraft wreckage, escalating the high-stakes race against time. As NATO and Soviet task forces converge on Svalbard the spectre of war raises it's nuclear scythe.
In Fail Safe you have the chance to Command both Soviet and NATO naval and air battle groups in a 12 mission campaign that will see nuclear fire rain down upon the earth and sea. Advanced weapons like SAM missiles and supersonic jet fighters serve alongside older platforms. F-86 Sabers and F-104 Starfighters will take on Mig-15's and 21's. Old ships like the HMS Victorious, a carrier veteran of World War II, will take on the newest ships of the 1960's like the Soviet November-class submarines and Sverdlov-class cruisers. - The anti-ship missile has arrived, but will it eclipse the naval gun? Fight in the early age of missile warfare - Fight on the sea and in the sky. Play 12 missions that run the gamut from full-scale fleet actions to sub hunting, motor-torpedo boat attacks, and convoy escorts- The supersonic jet and anti-air missile has changed aerial warfare: Can the bombers get past modern fighters like the F-100 Super Sabre or Mig-19 Farmer?- Will you press the big red button? You may be the commander that chooses to drop the atom bomb.Fail Safe is the pinnacle of 1960's Cold War air and sea wargaming. The closest you can get to seeing what would have happened if Western and Soviet naval and airpower had fought the war that truly would have ended all wars. Good luck Commander, and remember to duck and cover.I am enjoying it so far after about two hours or so. The era, planes, ships, and overall equipment mean I get to replicate some of these missions in DCS World (possibly Sea Power as well). You could probably also use this campaign to explain how escalation ladders work if you're a teacher or professor of political science/international relations. The missions are not too challenging. For the first one, I was able to
Early(er) Cold War setting gets a thumbs up from me. It really makes you play quite differently when you don't have all the modern toys you are used to in the later periods. I will say there are some missed opportunities when it comes to the story telling in missions, like in mission 1 it would have been cool to get some reports from the teams securing the crashsite or something, some more work could be done to make
While the missions themselves are quite traditional and it is sometimes not well broadcasted what the actual mission objectives are, I found this to be extremely fun! Working around the technical limitations of the 60s, limited to iron bombs, rockets, and very bad air-to-ground missiles, is an exciting challenge. Later ability to use nuclear weapons is novel and adds a unique challenge and opportunity all in one.
