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Later on that fateful day as they head towards the drift
Stacking boxes, fortify, preparations must be swift
Spears and shields of oxen hide facing uniforms and guns
As the rifles fire, echoes higher, (beating) like the sound of drums - Rorke's Drift - Sabaton
This LIVE scenario calls back to the times of colonial skirmishes where superior tactics, training, and equipment beats numbers every time. While playing as the French-backed Chadians, I was shocked to see just how much of a hair's thread my forces were hanging by and how badly outnumbered and outgunned I was. The only thing that could level the playing field would be a pre-emptive strike on Sudanian airfields with SCALP EG cruise missiles but those airfields were being covered by HQ-9 batteries and there's no way the Chinese air defense operators would do something so blindingly idiotic as to not turn on their radars right?
Right?
Well then, this just got considerably easier! I immediately kicked things off by launching all of my cruise-missile carrying Rafales from the Charles de Gaulle to shut down Port Sudan, Wadi Seidna, Khartoum, and El Obeid. I also got to work shooting down some Chinese MPAs that thought it was a good idea to try to buzz a carrier with AWACS support at low altitude. While this was going on, I launched a prospective SEAD strike from Ouadi Doum to see if could take out some HQ-16B SAM sites that were guarding the Sudanian ground forces. I was pleasantly surprised to see the glide bombs take out the first SAM site and immediately launched two more flights carrying glide bombs to take out the rest of the HQ-16B SAM sites. Unfortunately, this came with the loss of two Rafale fighters that were guarding Chadian airspace which left my forces in just that more of a precarious situation. Meantime, my cruise missiles had impacted but two that were aimed at Wadi Seidna malfunctioned leaving it still operational. I re-armed two Rafales on the CdG with glide bombs to take out a YJ-12 shore battery that was making me a little nervous, left two to arm with more SCALP EG cruise missiles, and armed the rest as fighters. I soon began to see a bunch of fighters moving in to bomb Abeche at low altitude and was dismayed to realize that my fighters would not be able to get there in time. However, the attackers got annihilated by the Crotales defending Abeche so I guess that's alright then.
Meantime, my General's Instinct(tm) told me that my AWACS orbit was too far back so I moved it forward and, lo and behold, Chinese fighters were moving in to bomb Ouadi Doum. I launched all of my available strikers to defend it and while the enemy fighters only took two losses out of the 8 sent to attack, their cruise missiles didn't fair so well and none made it through to hit the target. With my strikers in the air, I decided to send them to attack an SA-2 defending the Sudanian ground forces as well as blast a forward airbase that was carrying attack helicopters. While the forward airbase strike went well enough, the strike on the SA-2 caused a few brown pants moments while the designated fighters overflew a bunch of MANPADS at low altitude and toss bombed the Guideline with GPS-guided munitions without even bothering to evade the s***-load of missiles headed their way. Luckily, the two fighters didn't suffer any losses and I immediately got to work bombing the Sudanian AAA from high altitude after quickly making sure that some nearby Chinese fighters weren't airworthy enough to intervene. I then sent my helicopters in from Abeche to start chipping away at the Sudanian ground forces which they did with great success. After a while, the Chinese sent in another low altitude bombing strike on Abeche but this time I was ready. With 2 of my fighters against 10 of theirs. I got 5 of their outdated fighters before running out of missiles so I decided to go in for guns scratching an extra fighter before I had to return to base due to being completely Winchester. Crotales got 2 more fighters before running out of ammunition leaving my Mistrals to defend the airport on their own. They took out one fighter outright by hitting the cockpit (boom, headshot) while the final fighter took 3 Mistrals to the gut and broke off to try to make it to base. Unfortunately for it, the fires were too much and it blew up less than a minute into the egress.
Pretty soon after that, I was able to get a fairly uneventful strike away at the YJ-12 battery that was making me so nervous and rearmed the landing Rafales as fighters. The second SCALP EG strike against Wadi Seidna went off without a hitch and when those Rafales landed, I armed them as fighters. After some laid back bombing of Sudanian positions, a final Chinese strike against Abeche came into view but this time, I had plenty of AAMs to spare and the Floggers just evaporated. After continuing to bomb the s*** out of Sudanian forces without any resistance, I took stock and decided that my services were no longer needed since the operation had become little more than a shooting gallery.
Triumph - 1640 points
SIDE: France-Chad
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LOSSES:
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2x Rafale C
EXPENDITURES:
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11x TSM 8062 DIFAR
14x SCALP EG
63x Meteor
15x TSM 8050B Active RO
32x SBU-54 AASM/M [Hammer, Mk82, GPS + IIR]
4x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges]
32x R.440 Crotale-NG VT1
10x Mistral 2
15x MICA EM
15x MICA IR
11x 30mm Giat 30/M791B Burst [25 rnds]
100x GBU-49/B Paveway II GPS/LGB [Mk82]
7x Generic Flare Salvo [4x Cartridges, Dual Spectral]
64x AGM-114K Hellfire II
54x AT-9 Spiral-2 [9M120 Ataka-V]
72x 30mm Giat 30/M781 Burst [50 rnds]
120x S-8KO 80mm Rocket [HEAT]
12x SBU-38 AASM/D [Hammer, Mk82, GPS-Only]
12x GBU-12D/B Paveway II LGB [Mk82]
18x 23mm Gsh-23L Burst [50 rnds]
SIDE: Sudan-China
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LOSSES:
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5x A-5C Fantan
6x J-10C Vigorous Dragon
10x J-16 Flying Shark [Su-30MKK Copy]
8x MiG-23BN Flogger H
10x MiG-29SE Fulcrum C
8x Su-24MK Fencer D
2x Y-8X Cub
4x Z-19 Black Whirlwind
5x SA-2f Guideline Mod 1/2 Single Rail [Cargo]
2x SA-7a Grail [9K32 Strela-2] MANPADS [Cargo]
1x Vehicle (China Type 352 Square Tie) [Cargo]
1x Vehicle (Fan Song F [RSNA-75M]) [Cargo]
4x YJ-12 Triple [Cargo]
EXPENDITURES:
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46x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges]
15x PL-15
2x YJ-91 [Kh-31P, ARM]
16x KD-88 LACM
7x PL-12
3x SA-2f Guideline Mod 1 [S-75M2 Volkhov, 5YA23 / V-759]
14x Generic Chaff Salvo [5x Cartridges]
6x Generic Flare Salvo [3x Cartridges, Single Spectral]
4x AA-11 Archer [R-73]
2x FAB-500M-54 GPB
2x 1150 liter Drop Tank
1x 1500 liter Drop Tank
SIDE: French And Chadian Ground Forces
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LOSSES:
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1x Radar (RAC-3D)
EXPENDITURES:
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SIDE: Sudanese And Chinese Ground Forces
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LOSSES:
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1x Radar (HQ-16A Search Radar)
2x Vehicle (ELINT [Advanced])
12x 120mm Mortar [Cargo]
48x 122mm/38 D-30 2A18 Towed Howitzer [Cargo]
4x 122mm/38 PCL-09 [Cargo]
20x 23mm ZU-23-2 [Cargo]
28x 37mm/63 Type 65 Twin DP [Cargo]
36x BTR-50 APC [Cargo]
12x HQ-16B TEL [Cargo]
61x Infantry Section [7.62mm MG/Unguided Infantry Anti Tank Weapon] [Cargo]
27x T-55 Main Battle Tank [Cargo]
3x Vehicle (HQ-16 FCR) [Cargo]
11x Vehicle (Truck, Unarmed) [Cargo]
EXPENDITURES:
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8x FN-6
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