New scenario: Abu Sayyaf

[JAPR]

Hello!. This is my new scenario. A description:

Abu Sayyaf Group, al Qaeda-linked Muslim extremists fighting for an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines, is the most violent of the Islamic separatist groups operating in the zone. Some ASG leaders have studied or worked in the Middle East and allegedly fought in Afghanistan during the Soviet war. Abu Sayyaf is believed to have been funded by al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and Bin Laden's brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, reportedly met directly with the group in its early years. According to Abu Sayyaf, the group is fighting for a sovereign Islamic state in the southern Philippines. To fund its efforts, they have kidnapped Filipino and foreigners for ransom. Due to those acts, the Philippine government sees the group more as a band of pirates than a true political movement. The Philippines is considered the "second front" in the US led war on terrorism,and since early February 2002, 1300 U.S. soldiers have been training Philippine troops in marksmanship, small-unit leadership,special operations, intelligence, communications and survival techniques for use in the fight against Abu Sayyaf. Since then, the Philippine government, led by President Gloria Arroyo,has vowed an all-out effort to crush Abu Sayyaf

And some screenshots:

 

[JAPR]

"Under siege"

 

[JAPR]

Suggestions, comments, critics, are welcome!

 

[insurgent]

You might want to edit out that Israeli flag on my settlement unit. doesn't seem to be entirely relevant.

I see you have played my Under Siege. That warms my heart.

How large/detailed is the map?

 

[JAPR]

The map isn't very big (75x120).
Your settlement it's now a tourist resort, and I thought I've changed the flag, but you have reason and the jewish inmigrants are now tourists (they are wearing shorts and caps) .( If you play as Abu Sayyaf, you earn money if you behead them)

And yes, I've palyed a lot of times your scenario a lot of times. Today my Israeli army has conquered Lebanon in ONE turn

 

[WarVoid]

The Acehnese movement in northern Sumatra is actually much more violent and a longer-running campaign than the Abu Sayyaf intifada. It should be an interesting scenario nonetheless.

And yes, I've palyed a lot of times your scenario a lot of times. Today my Israeli army has conquered Lebanon in ONE turn.

*convulses on floor foaming at mouth*

 

[insurgent]

Ahh, ok. The flag just looks like the Israeli flag. Yeah, I like that it's used as a tourist resort - it could look like that. I'd perhaps change some of the roofs of the houses to look more like the flat-roofed hotels (as the building in the upper left).

Also, I like the use of the immigrants unit and my refugee camp unit. But I would like to suggest a change or two to the immigrants.
One of them, the one with the white shirt, is wearing 1940's-50's worker's clothes (cap, pants, shirt, and beard). I suggest you change his shirt into a more colourful Hawaiian-type shirt, change the cap to a baseball-type cap, and remove his beard.
The other one, the former rabbi, is still holding the religious scriptures of Judaism in his hand (the long green cylinder). And the "towel-like" thing is also traditionally Jewish. Perhaps they should be changed to something more "tourist-like".

Just suggestions.

75x120 should be enough if it contains only the southern part of the Philippines.

About the Under Siege, I'd like to encourage you to play the other scenarios, as the 1982 scenario was really like left-hand work. I'll redo the whole 1982 scenario some day. But I'm glad you liked it.

 

[JAPR]

Originally posted by WarVoid
The Acehnese movement in northern Sumatra is actually much more violent and a longer-running campaign than the Abu Sayyaf intifada. It should be an interesting scenario nonetheless.

Yes, I tried to do a scenario about the islamic movements in Malaysia, Indonesia and Mindanao, but I couldn't find a good map

 

[JAPR]

Originally posted by insurgent
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Also, I like the use of the immigrants unit and my refugee camp unit. But I would like to suggest a change or two to the immigrants.

75x120 should be enough if it contains only the southern part of the Philippines.

About the Under Siege, I'd like to encourage you to play the other scenarios, as the 1982 scenario was really like left-hand work. I'll redo the whole 1982 scenario some day. But I'm glad you liked it. [/B]

The refugge camps are now Al Qaeda's Training Camp
About the tourits, I can't do nothing better , I'm not good editing units.

About Under Siege: I usually play a scenario every week: Last week was Lebanon '82, this week, the war of 1948 .

The map only contains Mindanao and Basilan islands:

 

[insurgent]

That's good.
Although an over-all Indonesian Crisis scenario or something would be nice. Or perhaps South-east Asia.

If the refugee camps are Al-Qaeda training camp I would do some changes too. Can you post your units file, and I'll try to do some editing on the units...?

 

[JAPR]

Of course!
This is tue units file. By the way, the shield that accompanies some units like the stealth fighter must be positioned, and I don't know how to do it

 

[insurgent]

The shield position is decided by the two blue dots on the green frame around each unit slot.
It works this way (courtesy of Mercator):

 

[JAPR]

I learn something new every day

 

[Pavlov]

I changed the left tourist into having baseball cap, some ugly shirt and sneakers. I'm quite proud of it.

I tried giving the right tourist a surfboard but it looks like he's carrying a giant dildo. Can anyone make it look like a surfboard?

 

[Pavlov]

Forgot to attach

 

[Arthedain]

a giant dildo indeed :jump:

 

[insurgent]

These are my edited versions:
The tourists don't look like Jewish immigrants anymore. The beards are gone, together with their every-day clothing. They're both wearing shorts, only one has a belt and one has a Hawaiian shirt.
The tourist resort has palms instead of the former trees. One more house has a flat roof and the flag is Philippine.
The Al Qaeda camp is less dense, and there is an open area in front of the now military green tent. Training ground. The tent has the colour green which is also the colour of Islam with a red crescent moon on it - the symbol of Islam.

 

[insurgent]

Whoops, forgot the attachment...

Are they good enough?

 

[JAPR]

Perfect! The terrorist camp is now more difficult to see in the dangerous jungle of Mindanao:soldier:

 

[insurgent]

Nice!