sharker2003
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This is a partial AAR of Freek's Blockade scenario. Will post the follow-up when we get all the players together again (Me, Herman and John) and finish it up, at least not until the week after next as I'm getting underway on Friday. Anyway really liked this scenario and had fun playing it.
AAR for Israeli Side
*_POSSIBLE_SPOILER_ALERT*, DON'T READ IF YOU PLAN TO PLAY AS UNIFIL OR HEZBOLLAH SIDE:
Objective for Israeli side was to locate and sink Hezbollah Romeo sub using air and submarine assets. Surface assets were restricted to S of 33N. Secondary objectives were to sink PL supply boats lost in an enormous clutter of neutral traffic.
My initial action was to launch my first of two Dauphin helos (equipped with torpedoes)from the FFG's to begin the Maritime Domain Awareness/Situational Awareness portion of this little operation.
I sent my first on a sweep to the south of my FFG's, just to ensure no one was knocking at Israel's door and because I reasoned that the FFG commander would want their own AOR swept before releasing the helo's to patrol North. For organization I broke the Tactical Screen up into two seperate zoom windows, a North and South AOR, divided at the 33rd parallel. As my helo finished it's Southern Sweep my FFG detected by radar our first challanger of the day, two DE-type warship's to the north, heading into Israeli Territorial Waters and on a southerly course to cross the 33rd parallel at 28 kts. I vectored my helo towards them for an ID and issued Level One verbal warnings. The helo indentified them as two UNIFIL vessels, and though they did not respond to my hails they altered course west, away from Iraeli TTW and proceeded west a mile or so north of the 33rd. My FFG's turned and kept pace on our respective side of the line. As my helo proceeded north of the 33rd the Northern AOR was dense with commericial traffic, UNIFIL warships and aircraft operating in close proximity to Israeli aircraft. It was in this tense environment that my subs made initial contact with the rogue Romeo and began tracking. Based on the intel we were provided I made a rough guess at her destination and best speed she could be making and guessed about where I would find her, then split my subs to converge on that point. Little did I realize how accurate my guess was, LEVIATITHAN aquired her early, right on top of the reference point I laid as my best guess! With the pincher's of the glorious Israeli crab slowly closing on the unwitting sub, we recieved an awful fright when, as my Dauphin was buzzing a UNIFIL warship near the sub, DOLPHIN detected two torpedoes headed straight for the UN vessel!! Perfectly pre-positioned, my helo, which could only look at the UN vessel and think 'poor bastards' swooped in and dropped two torpedoes literally on top of the Hezbollah sub's towel-wrapped head. At the same time we detected the UNIFIL vessel returning fire with ASROC as my subs increased to Flank to close...that Romeo's goose was literally cooked 6 different ways once it let those torpedoes fly. The resulting detonation and shriek of fatiguing metal was greeted with cheers by our victorious freedom fighters. I noticed the UNIFIL warship appeared to escape unscathed.
My helo, low on fuel by this point returned to mother to get stuffed and strapped while her counterpart was immediately launched to resume the patrol...more camel-jockey's remained to be located and sunk. Things were going swimmingly when LEVIATITHAN's passive sonar operator again tore than headphone's away in pain...torpedoes in the water! WHAT? Turns out they came from a UNIFIL ship, which 'claimed' they issued Level III verbal warnings to surface prior to firing on an unidentified sub contact, but which we never received. Regardless my sub easily outran the ineptly fired torpedoes. Seething with rage we burned to return fire but, tragically ROE prohibited my subs from firing on UNIFIL ships. Turning our hatred where it belonged, on the Muslims, my Israeli sub resumed its patrol.
At this point it was getting LATE, and this combatant commander was ready for 40 winks, so we were looking for a stopping point. Ironically as I was preparing to log off my helo detected a Hezbollah fishing dhow! My sub loosed a fish at her at long range and I sat back to watch the fun. Unfortunatly the Dhow responded by taking off at 33 knots and outran the torpedo!! I was *HIGHLY* peeved at this and it's my only issue with an otherwise excellent scenario - having spent a year in the Persian Gulf boarding more than 300 dhows I can tell you I've never met one I can't outrun...in my sneakers. They do a max of 8 knots. Seriously. But anyway, as we saved and logged off for the nite my helo was swooping in with warshot, so maybe we'll sink her yet.
Great, great scenario...I really enjoy the Maritime Domain Awareness missions, the moderate extra traffic in this scenario is confounding and it probably 1/10th of what you actually see in these littoral environments, but for one person to manage it conveys the difficulty of sorting the good guys from the bad just right. Had fun and look forward to playing again!
Brandon
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By the way, yes the 33knot smuggler is a special creation that Herman made at my request! Blame me....! 
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