This supplement is designed to give players an approximate ranking of the difficulty of all of the TacOps scenarios, including the 16 scenarios featured on the first TacOps scenario disk. This ranking is based solely on the total number of individual vehicles, infantry squads/teams, and weapons teams (IVST) available to the U.S. player as reported in order of battle report in the Reports menu for each scenario.
This ranking assumes that an inexperienced player will want to start playing with only a few vehicles, infantry units, and weapons teams until he/she gets a feel for the game's dynamics.
It should be noted that other factors, such as optional units, force ratio, mission objectives, and time limit, also have an impact on the difficulty of any scenario. This supplement makes no attempt to consider these additional factors in its rankings.
TACOPS SCENARIO DIFFICULTY RANKINGS
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LOW COMPLEXITY (less than 50 U.S. IVST)
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1. TEAM KREMPP (9 U.S. IVST vs. 7 OPFOR IVST)
2. TEAM HALL (13 U.S. IVST vs. 4 OPFOR IVST)
3. TEAM SPOSITO (15 U.S. IVST vs. 34 OPFOR IVST)
4. TEAM SLOCOMB (16 U.S. IVST vs. 34 OPFOR IVST)
5. TEAM O'HARA (23 U.S. IVST vs. 76 OPFOR IVST)
6. BASIC TRAINING (23 U.S. IVST vs. 3 OPFOR IVST)
7. TEAM KELLEY* (25 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
8. TEAM CAHOON (27 U.S. IVST vs. 13 OPFOR IVST)
9. TEAM OSTLE (29 U.S. IVST vs. 76 OPFOR IVST)
10. TASK FORCE KINCAID* (30 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
11. TEAM HILL (39 U.S. IVST vs. 18 OPFOR IVST)
12. TEAM MINAMORA (44 U.S. IVST vs. 14 OPFOR IVST)
13. TEAM MURRAY (47 U.S. IVST vs. 18 OPFOR IVST)
MEDIUM COMPLEXITY (51 to 150 U.S. IVST)
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14. TEAM McMAINS (59 U.S. IVST vs. 160 OPFOR IVST)
15. TEAM MEYERS (60 U.S. IVST vs. 160 OPFOR IVST)
16. TASK FORCE DAVIS (80 U.S. IVST vs. 147 OPFOR IVST)
17. TEAM SAVAGE (94 U.S. IVST vs. 150 OPFOR IVST)
18. TASK FORCE FENWICK (96 U.S. IVST vs. 137 OPFOR IVST)
19. TASK FORCE PETERJOHN (97 U.S. IVST vs. 325 OPFOR IVST)
20. TASK FORCE MARKS (108 U.S. IVST vs. 137 OPFOR IVST)
21. TASK FORCE PUCCI (111 U.S. IVST vs. 52 OPFOR IVST)
22. TASK FORCE HURLEY* (116 U.S. IVST vs. 72 OPFOR IVST)
23. TASK FORCE HENSON (119 U.S. IVST vs. 354 OPFOR IVST)
24. TASK FORCE WARING (123 U.S. IVST vs. 52 OPFOR IVST)
25. TASK FORCE GEBHARD (129 U.S. IVST vs. 97 OPFOR IVST)
26. TASK FORCE CRAIG* (131 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
27. TASK FORCE GALLAGHER* (145 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
28. TASK FORCE ARSENAULT (146 U.S. IVST vs. 149 OPFOR IVST)
29. CAPTURE THE FLAG TANKS (148 U.S. IVST vs. 169 OPFOR IVST)
HIGH COMPLEXITY (over 150 U.S. IVST)
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30. TASK FORCE LOW* (151 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
31. TEAM TOMLINSON (151 U.S. IVST vs. 169 OPFOR IVST)
32. TASK FORCE HARPER (154 U.S. IVST vs. 354 OPFOR IVST)
33. TASK FORCE ZIENTEK (157 U.S. IVST vs. 149 OPFOR IVST)
34. TASK FORCE MOODY* (158 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
35. TASK FORCE HOEFT* (166 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
36. TASK FORCE ANDERSON (168 U.S. IVST vs. 169 OPFOR IVST)
37. TASK FORCE STUBBLEFIELD (172 U.S. IVST vs. 97 OPFOR IVST)
38. TASK FORCE KAYE* (177 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
40. TASK FORCE TAYLOR (201 U.S. IVST vs. 169 OPFOR IVST)
41. TASK FORCE FROLIK* (212 U.S. IVST vs. 461 OPFOR IVST)
42. TASK FORCE DEGOEY (295 U.S. IVST vs. 567 OPFOR IVST)
43. CAPTURE THE FLAG ARMY (453 U.S. IVST vs. 447 OPFOR IVST)
44. CAPTURE THE FLAG USMC (556 U.S. IVST vs. 481 OPFOR IVST)
45. TASK FORCE MIZOKAMI* (665 U.S. IVST vs. 1,060 OPFOR IVST)
46. TASK FORCE NANKERVIS* (698 U.S. IVST vs 1,060 OPFOR IVST)
Task Force scenarios marked with an asterisk (*) have 2 or more variants, each one progressively more difficult.
Please feel free to pass this scenario supplement file to other TacOps owners, as long as it is not altered in any manner.
Copyright 1994, I.L Holdridge and Arsenal Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.