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FreekS -> AAR - Hide and Seek (12/29/2008 12:27:07 PM)
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Hi, Herman and I played another 'epic' battle. Herman had access to a fast connection, so we played a new, largish scen .
I had 9 submarines, 7 of which had to cross the GIUK South in 1985, and two were heading North. 5 were SSKs, 4 nucs.
I detected a brit surface group (type 23, type 42 and Leander). Also detected a lone Spruance 150nm South of a Juliett with 4 Shaddock missiles. I decided to try to get a quick kill, but the Shaddocks were shot down by the Spruance (at about 4nm).
I decided to keep my SSKs at 5 knots max (and even at that speed they would have to short twice to reach their objectives in the 72 game hours allowed). I kept my SSNs at 10 knots max. Two SSNs went through the Iceland-UK gap and never detected anything, the other seven went through the Greenland-Iceland gap.
The indirect benefit of my Shaddowck attack became clear when the Brit group raced to the datum point, but even at 5nm the Juliet got far enough away to avade them. They started hunting (and killing fish). From there the Brit group stayed very far North of Iceland and I would not see them again.
The Spruance proved to have two escorts (neither of which I ever classified).
My orders were to pass the gap with the majority of my boats, but the vicconds suggested I needed to kill 5 ships.
The only ships I detected were 6 escorts, racing all over creation and generally not good targets for my slow SSKs with slow torps and limited battery.
So I decided to ignore the vicconds and focus on getting the SSKs through the gap.
My Victor III did manage to intercept the Americaln group, but just before the group came in range I detecetd buoys and then torpedoes and she died. I did not fire my big torpedoes as Hermans escorts were already raceing away at 30 knots and launched on BOL the torps would not have caught them (but might have found my subs).
A Charley also got in range of the Escorts, but for some reason only 5 of my 8 SS-N-9s would be assigned so aI called off the attack.
All 5 of my SSKs needed to snort (some several times), and I waited untill escorts were 100nm off before doing that. As Herman had no helo's up with radar on this vulnerable action was survived!
With one sub lost I got all others through the gap, for a draw.
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Freek
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