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Scenarios and documentation

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Realistic scenarios for Command: Modern Operations — built by script, bench-tested, documented like real operation orders.

Campaign film

Europe 2026

Autumn 2026. Europe is not at war, and not at peace either. Eleven linked scenarios, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

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The novels

Below the Line

Every scenario of the campaign has its own novel. Eleven techno-thrillers drawn from real events, from October 2026 to February 2027: sabotaged cables, shadow-fleet tankers, drone swarms and false-flag operations, and a Europe tested just below the threshold of war. Each book follows the officers, analysts, sailors and ordinary people who must decide, often in minutes and on incomplete information, what they are really looking at. Read one before you play its scenario, or after it, for the story behind the game.

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Catalogue

The scenarios

Every scenario has been self-tested. Each one ships with its mission pack. All eleven need Command: Modern Operations v1.10 (build 1900.23 or later) with the DB3000 v519 database.

BALTIC COMMAND Operation SKJOLD insignia: the Danish straits and the western Baltic, a tanker under escort off Skagen, the quarantine route through the Great Belt and a red line before Kaliningrad

BALTIC COMMAND · Europe 2026 · Scenario 10 · Finale

Copenhagen

Quarantine — the Danish straits, Bornholm and Kaliningrad, 2 February 2027, 1200Z to 4 February, 1200Z

Duration
48 hours
Force
15 ships · 2 SSK · 31 aircraft · 5 SAM batteries · the Bornholm garrison
ROE
Do not fire first · Russian soil is a red line
CMO complexity
5 / 5
Difficulty
5 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

Europe has closed the Danish straits to the shadow fleet. From today every uninsured or falsely flagged tanker must stop for inspection before the Kattegat. Moscow calls it piracy, and twelve tankers out of Primorsk are coming anyway, in two echelons, with Baltic Fleet warships at their side and the missiles of Kaliningrad behind them. From the joint operations centre at Karup you command BALTIC COMMAND: Danish, German and Swedish ships, NATO’s standing naval group, two submarines, F-35, Eurofighter and Gripen, a SAMP/T battery at Copenhagen, the garrison of Bornholm and the guard of the Great Belt bridges. Stop the tankers, board them, turn back those that fail — without firing the first shot, while Berlin, Stockholm and Copenhagen watch every move. What Moscow intends, and when it acts, is not the same from one game to the next.

S10 Copenhagen, 2027.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It closes the Europe 2026 campaign after Narva, with a campaign summary, an epilogue and a campaign code, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the six consoles, and the operation order with its three overlays.

CPCO Operation JANUS insignia: northern Europe from Brest to Narva, joined by an arc, with a submarine off Brest and a drone over the Estonian border

CPCO · Europe 2026 · Scenario 9

Narva

Final Warning — the Narva front in Estonia and the approaches to Brest, 18 January 2027, 1200Z to 20 January, 1200Z

Duration
48 hours
Force
2 SSBN · 1 SSN · 5 ships · 7 aircraft · a land detachment
ROE
No weapon against a Russian unit
CMO complexity
5 / 5
Difficulty
5 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

At noon Moscow called a snap exercise on the Narva front. Russian drones, border guards and armour are about to test the Estonian border, and the French LYNX detachment at Tapa with it. The same afternoon, thirteen hundred miles to the west, France relieves her deterrent patrol: Le Téméraire must slip from Île Longue and vanish into the Atlantic, Le Vigilant must come home unseen, and a Russian nuclear submarine is waiting for one of them at the edge of the shelf. From the CPCO in Paris you command both theatres on one clock. Your submarines hear you only at their radio schedules; your troops must be there when the border is tested, and never beyond a line 12 km short of it otherwise. Every move at Narva is read in Moscow, and paid for off Brest a few hours later.

S9 Narva, 2027.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after Gulf of Lion, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the fourteen special actions, the radio schedules and the rules at the border; and the operation order with its three overlays.

CTF 473 Operation LANTERNE insignia: the western Mediterranean from the Gulf of Lion to Africa, the two ports struck, the launch area, a container ship caught in a search beam and a helicopter

CTF 473 · Europe 2026 · Scenario 8

Gulf of Lion

The Morning After — the western Mediterranean, from the Gulf of Lion to the African coast, 5 January 2027, 0600Z to 7 January, 0600Z at the latest

Duration
Up to 48 hours
Force
1 carrier · 4 frigates · 1 SSN · 27 aircraft
ROE
Surface weapons hold — never fire first
CMO complexity
5 / 5
Difficulty
4 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

At 0200Z a swarm of drones came in low from the sea and set fire to Fos-sur-Mer and the port of Barcelona. Two ships launched them, and they are still out there: two among six container vessels that have been transmitting borrowed names since the raid, among forty others that hide nothing. You command CTF 473, the Charles de Gaulle group, a hundred miles north of where it happened. Radar gives you a hull type, never a name: you must find them, photograph their decks, ask Paris for leave to fire into an engine room, and put a team aboard before they reach Algerian or Tunisian waters or the Strait of Sicily. A Russian naval group passed the Strait in the night and is coming to meet them. It is entitled to be there. You do not fire first; and at an hour nobody knows, Paris and Moscow will tell both sides to stop.

S8 Gulf-of-Lion, 2027.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after Kleine-Brogel, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the eight special actions, its maps of the ways out and its notes on who can put a name on a ship; and the operation order with its overlays.

Benelux Shield Operation SWARM LINE insignia: the Benelux coast at night, a merchant ship with a helicopter over her, and two drone tracks bending round an air-defence dome towards two sites

BENELUX SHIELD · Europe 2026 · Scenario 7

Kleine-Brogel

Swarm Line — the southern North Sea, Belgium and the Netherlands, 16 December 2026, 0200Z to 2300Z

Duration
21 hours
Forces
16 fighters · 5 ships and a submarine · 2 boarding teams
ROE
Weapons tight — nothing fired at a ship
CMO complexity
5 / 5
Difficulty
5 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

Small drones have been over Kleine-Brogel and Volkel since before midnight. They come from the sea and they go back to it: one ship launches them, another takes them back aboard, a third relays their control link, and all three are hidden among forty-four merchant ships in one of the busiest waters in the world. A Russian corvette and an intelligence ship wait in the economic zone, where they have every right to be. You are Commander, Benelux Shield: Belgian F-16s and F-35s, Dutch F-35s, two frigates, three patrol vessels, a submarine, helicopters and two boarding teams. Find the three ships, prove it, and take them where the law allows: any ship inside twelve miles, and beyond only with the consent of her flag state. Watch one too closely and she will know, and throw everything overboard. Meanwhile formations leave the sea for your bases, the F-16s cannot see airframes that small, and whatever you shoot down must not fall on a town. Nothing is fired at a ship. The Russians will not fire first.

S7 Kleine-Brogel, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It needs Command: Modern Operations v1.10 (build 1900.23 or later) with DB3000 v519. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after Rzeszów Gate, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the nine special actions, its maps of the sea area and of the Scheldt approach and its step-by-step notes on shadowing, boarding by helicopter and reporting; and the operation order with its overlays.

COM ES-SE Operation LAST MILE insignia: a radar sweep over south-east Poland, the hub at its centre, a railway line and a missile track coming down from the north-east

COM ES-SE · Europe 2026 · Scenario 6

Rzeszów Gate

The Last Mile — south-east Poland and the Ukrainian border, 3 December 2026, 1900Z to 4 December, 0900Z

Duration
14 hours
Air defence
16 fighters · 24 batteries · 8 radars
ROE
Weapons tight — fire on positive identification
CMO complexity
3 / 5
Difficulty
4 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

Russia has declared the supply line to Ukraine a military target and strikes western Ukraine all night: slow Geran drones, jet-powered ones, cruise missiles, and aircraft over Belarus carrying ballistic missiles. Most of it is bound for Lviv, Lutsk or Kovel and is none of your business. Some of it will cross, and some of that is aimed at the Jasionka hub, at a town, at a station, or at nothing at all. You are Commander, Eastern Sentry South-East: Polish F-16s and F-35s, Swedish Gripens, a Dutch detachment at the hub and Polish air defence on the towns and the crossings. Since 29 September you may fire on positive identification, without going to look, and you answer afterwards for every shot. The Patriots have twelve missiles a section and no reloads, and they are the only answer to a ballistic missile. C-17s land through the night, two trains come out of Ukraine, and one of them carries a foreign delegation. Nothing of yours crosses the border.

S6 Rzeszow-Gate, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after Baltic Jamming, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the twelve special actions, its air-defence maps and its step-by-step notes on marking a contact, weapons control and moving a battery; and the operation order with its overlays.

COM BAD Operation STRAY LIGHTS insignia: a radar sweep over the eastern Baltic coast and three stray lights wandering across the border

COM BAD · Europe 2026 · Scenario 5

Baltic Jamming

Stray Lights — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Gulf of Finland, 25 November 2026, 1600Z to 26 November, 1600Z

Duration
24 hours
Air defence
13 fighters · 16 batteries · 15 radars
ROE
Weapons hold — fire by national leave
CMO complexity
4 / 5
Difficulty
4 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

Kyiv strikes the Russian oil ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk tonight, and Russian jamming will throw some of those drones west, into Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Russia launches its own wave at Ukraine through Belarus, and Ukrainian jamming will throw some of that north, into Lithuania. On radar the two look the same; some carry a warhead and some are foam. You are Commander, Baltic Air Defence: Italian Eurofighters, Turkish F-16s, Finnish Hornets and the uneven ground-based air defence of three small countries, each with a government that must give you leave to fire over its soil, for six hours at a time. Nothing of yours crosses the Russian or Belarusian border. Where a drone comes down matters more than whether it does. Missiles are counted, the E-3A goes home at 0000Z unless you ask for a relief, Russian fighters test Vaindloo by day, and three capitals are watching what falls on whom. No missions in the box: the patrols are yours to build.

S5 Baltic-Jamming, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after We See You, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the twenty special actions, its battery maps and its step-by-step notes on weapons control, firing range and patrols; and the operation order with its overlays.

CTG 327.4 Operation DEEP WATER insignia: an open eye above the sea, watching a submarine over a seabed line

CTG 327.4 · Europe 2026 · Scenario 4

We See You

Deep Water — the Faroe-Shetland Channel and the northern North Sea, 12 November 2026, 1800Z to 14 November, 1800Z

Duration
48 hours
Task group
3 surface · 1 SSN · 5 air
ROE
Weapons tight — nobody fires
CMO complexity
4 / 5
Difficulty
5 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

Yantar is back east of Shetland. An Akula has come south through the Norwegian Sea, making no effort to stay quiet. And somewhere below, Northwood believes, a GUGI carrier has brought her deep-diving submersible to one of the lines that run under this sea: the SHEFA-2 cable, the FLAGS and Vesterled gas lines, or Langeled. To survey it, to leave a sensor on it, or to rehearse cutting it — the target and the task change every game. You have a Type 23 with a towed array and a Merlin, an Astute, a Norwegian frigate and four P-8 crews on a fixed budget of flying hours. Find the submarines, hold them, prove what they are doing, then decide when London tells Moscow “we see you”. Watch them too closely and they will know. Classic CMO: no missions in the box, only two special actions, two long November nights and a severe gale on the way.

S4 We-see-you, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after Sardinia Station, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the special actions, and the operation order with its overlays.

TG 452.1 Operation NURAGHE insignia: a stone tower between two nuraghi, above undersea cables

TG 452.1 · Europe 2026 · Scenario 3

Sardinia Station

The Ogliastra coast and the Salto di Quirra range — 3 November 2026, 1600Z to 5 November, 0400Z

Duration
36 hours
Task group
3 surface · 4 air · P-8A on call
ROE
Weapons tight — no first shot
CMO complexity
3 / 5
Difficulty
4 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

For two days a Russian destroyer, an oiler and a cargo ship have been holding station off the east coast of Sardinia, in international waters, and nobody in Rome can say why. A submarine working on the undersea cables under their cover? Ears on the NATO missile firing at Salto di Quirra? An oil transfer with a shadow-fleet tanker? Or a show of the flag and nothing more? The answer changes every game, and sometimes there are two. You have a frigate on their shoulder, another with a helicopter to the south, twenty-two hours of patrol-aircraft time and four loads of sonobuoys — not enough to look everywhere. The range must be clear before each firing window, a mistral is on its way, and Rome wants your view in the middle of the night. And a government that can fall is reading the papers.

S3 Sardinia-Station, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after Ouessant Relay, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the special actions, and the operation order with its overlays.

TG 471.1 Operation HERMINE insignia: a banded lighthouse between two ermine spots

TG 471.1 · Europe 2026 · Scenario 2

Ouessant Relay

Iroise Sea and the Ushant traffic scheme — 22 October 2026, 0600Z to 0600Z

Duration
24 hours
Task group
2 surface · 1 tug · 5 air
ROE
Weapons tight — no first shot
CMO complexity
3 / 5
Difficulty
4 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

At dawn a Royal Navy frigate hands you a Russian group off Ushant: a frigate, a replenishment ship and three laden tankers heading south-west down the traffic scheme. One has no nationality and may lawfully be boarded; one is sanctioned under a valid flag; one passed under the Russian flag eleven days ago and must not be touched — and which is which changes every game. The escort crosses your bow and locks her fire-control radar, but does not fire. You have one commando team, a helicopter, a frigate’s boats and an autumn gale coming in from the Atlantic. West of Brest, an intelligence ship waits and a submarine may be on her way. In Paris, a government is watching.

S2 Ouessant-Relay, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It continues the Europe 2026 campaign after Baltic Sentinel, and plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the special actions, and the operation order with its overlays.

CTF-401 Baltic Sentinel insignia: a fouled anchor over a severed submarine cable

CTF-401 · Europe 2026 · Scenario 1

Baltic Sentinel

Hoburg Bank, south-east of Gotland — 14 October 2026, 0430Z to 0030Z

Duration
20 hours
Task group
6 surface · 1 SSK · 19 air
ROE
Weapons tight — no first shot
CMO complexity
3 / 5
Difficulty
4 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

Two bulk carriers are dragging their anchors across the cables that tie Sweden to Lithuania and Gotland to Latvia. Only one of them is doing it on purpose, and the one that looks guilty is not necessarily the one that is. Boarding takes a flag state's consent or proof that she has none; the Baltic Fleet is watching for the first mistake. Then a cable ship has to work all day inside a perimeter that trawlers, drones and a “research” vessel keep testing, and after dark a Kilo has a job to do on one of three cable nodes. In Stockholm, a government is keeping score of every headline. Twenty hours, and nothing to shoot.

S1 CTF-401-Baltic-Sentinel, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It is the first scenario of the Europe 2026 campaign after the Neptun Deep prologue, and it plays on its own. The mission pack below is what the commander receives: the briefing pack, with its guide to the special actions, and the operation order with its overlays.

Neptun Deep insignia: a gas platform under a night sky over the Black Sea

Pontic Shield · Europe 2026 · Prologue (S0)

Neptun Deep

The Long Night — Romanian EEZ, Black Sea, 9 October 2026, 1530Z to 10 October, 0330Z

Duration
12 hours
Force
6 fighters · 2 helo · 1 UAV
ROE
Pontic, edition 4
CMO complexity
3 / 5
Difficulty
4 / 5
Database
DB3000 v519

Four hundred and twelve people are finishing the fit-out of a gas platform eighty miles offshore. A container ship has switched off her AIS and is carrying something no merchant carries. You have six fighters, twelve hours of darkness and a new moon — and only two of those aircraft can see the water. Every allocation you make at last light is paid for at three in the morning.

S0 Neptun-Deep, 2026.scen — drop it in your CMO Scenarios folder and it appears in the load list. It is the prologue of the Europe 2026 campaign: the first night played, five days before Baltic Sentinel, and it also plays on its own. The mission pack below carries the briefing pack in English, French and Romanian, and the operation order with its overlays.