Ranger: Simulation of Modern Patrolling Operations

Ranger: Simulation of Modern Patrolling Operations is a tactical solitaire board wargame released by Omega Games in 1984.

The game was designed by Bill Gibbs, and focussed on contemporary small unit actions, placing the player in the position of a patrol leader.

In the summer of 1983, US Army Captains Bill Gibbs and Mike Modica formed Omega Games in Columbus, Georgia, and explored the idea of starting a wargaming company.

The game was released in November 1983, and the initial print sold enough copies in military communities to warrant further production.

A Second Edition went into production in May 1984, with rewritten rules and graphics brought up to current wargame industry standards.

Artwork delays, however, set the expected release of the second edition back to the autumn of 1984, but actually the game shipped in April 1985 to critical success.

Combat is always dangerous, but even more so when forward of friendly lines.The overall context of the game - a speculative game (taking place two years in the future) dealing with a fictional setting - was given on the back of the box: In late 1988, the President of the Central American Republic of Puerto Oro requested military intervention by U.S.

The outnumbered Government Forces fought a valiant delaying action against the better equipped invaders, but could not halt their advance.

On October 19, 1988, a patrol from C. Co., 3rd Capital Battalion captured Colonel Yuki Kicharov, the first proof of actual Soviet support.

After consulting with congressional leaders and the joint chiefs of staff, the President of the United States ordered the deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division.

The U.S. forces are expected to take the offensive as soon as deployment of the 7th Infantry Division and the remainder of the 18th Airborne Corps is completed.

in that it was paragraph driven; however the latter game included counters and did have the "excitement of stalking through a building looking for the hostages" (in fact, quite literally, since one of the missions in Move Out, an Ambush!

Ranger had a much more serious approach to the subject, and Rooker felt the game could even be considered a training aid for actual military patrolling due to its realism.

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