Mgellis
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I tried this one out. Quite nice so far.
[Spoilers.]
At 1800, I sent my boats towards the rendezvous point and then launched a couple of F-104s to scout the area. It took me a while but at 1830, I found the screening force (three groups) and the convoy some distance behind them. I attacked one Alligator with the F-104s and then they headed home (Winchester).
At 1900, I launched a single F-104 to keep any eye on the enemy ships. I was able to do this and increased the speed on the attack boats to 30 knots. My plan was to get past the screen and then sweep around to the south and attack the Alligators from the E or SE, where I would be screened to an extent from gunfire from the frigates.
At 2118, my boats were attacked by Russian aircraft. I lost one attack boat. The real "damage" was that the Russians now knew where I was and the screening force turned towards me. At 2150, missiles were launched. I was able to spoof or shoot down 12 SS-N-2 Styx missiles without losing any boats. I accelerated to flank speed and blew past the screening force.
At 2258, the convoy was NW of my attack boats. I turned at flank speed and attacked!
At 2308, I began firing on the Alligators. All four were damaged. At first, the Russian frigates did not return fire. Did they see me? Was I in range?
At 2312, the frigates made up for their slow response. A vicious battle ensued and, at the end (around 2330), I had sunk all four Alligators, but my forces had taken heavy losses. I limped away with only two of my boats intact.
Lessons learned...I should have not attacked the first Alligator with the F-104s. Instead, I should have attacked the frigates escorting them, hopefully damaging them enough that they would have not been able to return fire when my boats attacked the Alligators. Then I could have picked off the Alligators at my leisure and probably would have suffered fewer losses. The other option to is to rely more on hit and run attacks, coming just close enough to the Alligators to fire on them and then turning away quickly before the frigates could attack my ships. It probably would not have been a perfect solution--the guns on those frigates have a lot more range--but I might have reduced losses.
Overall, a solid little scenario. You still need to set up the scoring, I think--I was told I had 175 points but the game did not say if that was good, average, or what. And maybe flesh out the orders, etc. But this is definitely on track to be a solid scenario. Good work.
< Message edited by Mgellis -- 7/17/2016 3:00:49 AM >
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