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dongonzo -> RE: Brother Against Brother [In Progress] (10/23/2013 5:05:47 PM)
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0650-0700 Local
Multirole 18 VID as F-16A at 6nm, RP03 ordered to engage. I lost a Kfir to an AIM-9, but downed the F-16 with a Python-3.
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Get those remaining Kfirs in the air! I am out of weapons and running for my life through the mountains, it is my assumption that the F-16 on my tail is faster than me.
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After taking an uncomfortable amount of cannon pop-shots at my Kfirs, the Falcon on my tail is disengaging, must be out of ammunition
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I wish that had gone better, it looks like they have 3 in the air remaining, two F-16As and an SU30Mk2... At least one of the F-16As is Winchester and has a long flight back to base, another SU30 arrived on station not too long after the fighting broke out, but I appear to have lost my pursuers in the mountains.
The score at the end of the 1st quarter is 5 to 3, not great... but could be worse most likely. Intense.
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Remaining Falcon contacts lost... I hope I have enough fuel to RTB ;_;
SpecOPs team sees a Falcon flying SE away from the mountains so the remaining F-16 did not give chase very far...
0715-0720 Local
RTB order issued, once I'm well out of the mountains and no longer have to worry about them popping up to max-altitude for their flight home. It looks like they'll have enough fuel to make it back to the airbase... barely...
Suggestion:
Please allow manual altitude/speed control when RTB... also being able to yank aircraft out of maintenance would be nice. I could seriously use those other 3 Kfirs, even if they have stress cracks in the wings.
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SpecOps Coy has crossed the border into Venezuelan territory.
0735 Local
Those bastards killed my maritime patrol aircraft-- it eluded two R77s and I thought I had lost him in the cloud layer, but he kept on me and finished me off with an R73... if I do this scenario again I'll have to make a note to not stray too close to the VZ border with the patrol aircraft.
Honestly I had a vector for an SU30 moving in the general direction of that aircraft, but it had been picking up sporadic signals for most of the scenario, so I thought he was at the far end of the vector instead of the close end-- my mistake, an overabundance of caution, especially when dealing with unarmed, slow and sluggish aircraft is in order for future scenarios.
I'm really bummed-- I loved that piece of junk and Javier was a bro ;_;7
I even Save-Scum'd several times to see if I could shake the heat seekers... but they're some 85% to hit... probably could do it if I tried enough times, but that's meta-gaming to the max.
I'm at -75 now, and feel like a failure... though personally I think the scoring is a bit askew... those SU30MK2s are brand spanking new and cost a lot more than Kfirs of the 70s... it's like Mig-15s picking-off "lol-no-guns" F-4s... bit of a disparity in value... oh well...[8|]
On the up-side Rat Patrol 04 didn't run into any hostile aircraft, so I used them to scout the rebel encampment. They got shot at by a few [what I believe to be] Manpads, but they all missed. So far I have three mobile units on the ground, just south of their estimated location that I had marked with a rally point. The remaining Kfirs have landed safely and are being re-armed with more Python missiles for more anti-air combat.
If VZ rearms and relaunches their SU30 and F16... and I have no idea why they wouldn't... it's going to be very troublesome to maintain air superiority over the rebel encampment-- even if I jump them, they have better weapons, turn faster, climb faster and have a better top speed. I still have several hours to get RP04 back to base and rearm them before I need to really think about stuff like that-- I'm very glad they didn't run into any air patrols... I'm going to need every Kfir I can get moving forward, I've lost too many already...
Meanwhile, my SpecOps team has wandered into the damned mountains, probably because I didn't assign them any way-points and they just headed north by default-- needless to say they are moving very slowly at 1kt... I'm going to try and get them out of the mountains and into the foothills in hopes they can move along a little faster... they're about 8nm from the mobile units I passed over with RP04-- putting the earliest strike at present
around 15:00ish...
I still have no clue where any VZ sub or surface fleet is, and losing that maritime patrol aircraft will seriously hamper my attempts to find it. I do have a helo I can search a little bit with, but I think it's mostly going to be luck involved with finding any of their naval units.
[to be continued ...]
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