mack2
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I got through another 5 hours of game-time today (in about 3 and a half real-time hours), I've started clearing out the Chinese bases in the vicinity of the Taiwanese base at Tapei Sungshan, as well as demolishing a naval SAG that was threatening a carrier group. It got a bit hairy, I felt like the Japanese at Midway, watching with every squadron of Hornets re-arming with Slammers to take out the Russian Sag for good, only to see waves of bombers and fighters incoming to the Carrier. We barely escaped with the minor loss of one of the auxiliary ships placed in a sacrificial missile trap protecting the carrier. There was also a submarine torpedo attack, but we outran the torps, and without any Vikings to properly prosecute the target (I don't know how a real carrier commander can sleep at night anymore, knowing he doesn't have any Vikings to sweep the sea). After recalling the attempt to ferry planes from Earekson, the F-22's defended the airbase whilst the handful of B-52's unleashed wave after wave of missiles at the Russian bases at Petropavlosk and Buresetvik. I had to pretty much abandon Japan, and only had a dozen or so planes to defend Korea. The most important base by far is Tapei Sungshan, I built up a force of F-22's, F-16's, and eventually our B1, B-52's and B-2's. A constant air war has been waged, with the F16D Block 50's and B1's the main hitters against the enemy air-bases with JASSM, F15's with AGM-130's taking the SEAD mission, the A-10's have attacked and destroyed a dozen smaller red naval units, whilst the F22's and F16 Block 20's defend the airspace with AMRAAM. My blue forces in Da Nang have taken a pounding, only 2 of the Flankers left, all the A-10's shot down attempting to defend the small Blue naval force in the area. Any non-US ship not part of a Carrier group was pretty well annihilated, all the Japanese (that aren't part of the CVH Group), South Korean and Vietnamese ships sunk by massed missile attack. The losses are truly staggering, some of the largest I've seen in any scenario, on both sides. Blue: Carriers - 0 Damaged or Destroyed. Ships - 12 Destroyed, 2 Damaged. Subs - 0 Damaged or Destroyed. Aircraft - 65 Helos - 20 Bases - 1 Destroyed, 5 Damaged. Land Units - 2 Destroyed, 2 Damaged. Red: Carriers - 1 Destroyed. Ships - 41 Destroyed, 1 Damaged. Subs - 0 Damaged or Destroyed. Aircraft - 782 Destroyed. Helos - 23 Destroyed. Bases - 14 Destroyed, 4 Damaged Land Units - 13 Destroyed, 2 Damaged. Green: Ships - 1 Damaged, sorry to whoever owns it, the Japanese Helo Carrier group put a couple of Harpoons into a green tanker with a BOL when it was still unknown. I also engaged some whales but the 2 high-tech torpedoes managed to miss the whale somehow.
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