Shortly
after the last Warriors at Oka were taken into military custody, a crowd
of 400 Mohawks from the Kahnawake reserve near Chateauguay gathered to
protest the rough treatment of the Oka Warriors by military and police
forces. In a feeble attempt to hold them back were six Canadian
soldiers who used tear gas. The tear gas failed to disperse the crowd
because some rioters were wearing gas masks. The crowd gathered
again, this time facing down 24 more soldiers who had arrived as
reinforcements. An officer ordered the soldiers to aim rifles at the
crowd, specifically aiming at people who appeared to be agitators. The
tactic worked, and the crowd dispersed.
This
scenario is a scaled-down simulation of that riot. It is designed for
two players, with one player handling the military and the other handling
the agitators among the crowd.
Army: Your
role is to disperse the crowd. Army units set up on the northern part
of the highway.
Army
Units:
Number
Quality
Weapons
4
Line
M-16A2
4
Green
M-16A2
1
M-113A3 APC with a
Line Crew. Fitted with M2HB.
Special
Equipment: At the Army's disposal are 2 shotgun launchers and 20
Tear Gas grenades and launcher cartridges
Ammunition: All
troops carry 6 magazines FMJ for their rifles. The M2HB on the M113
has only 1 belt of FMJ.
Agitators: Your
role is to incite the crowd to attack the military. Such an attack
would not only terrorize the military, but would also show to the Canadian
governments that the situation is beyond their control. Agitators set
up in the body of the crowd itself.
Agitator
units:
Number
Quality
Weapon
4
Line
Blunt melee weapons.
4
Green
Blunt melee weapons.
Special
Equipment: Gas masks. They are the only members of the crowd to
wear these.
Weapons
Option: At the Agitator player's option, the agitators may be
armed with handguns.
Crowd: There
are 80 members in the crowd. They are deployed in a skirmish line
some 40 hexes away from the line of military troops. The Threat Level
begins at II.
Victory: A
simple victory is measured by which side manages to neutralize the other
first. If the Army manages to disperse the crowd without resorting to
gunfire, they win a strategic and political victory. If gunfire is
used by the Army, then the Army suffers a political loss.
On
the other hand, if the crowd, either with or without agitator control,
manages to charge the Army line and render the line ineffective, then the
agitators win a strategic and political victory.