RobotCriminal -> RE: New Scenario: Hold the Line (4/26/2015 10:09:36 PM)
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NP, hopefully this thing is ready for release soon as I am having quite a bit of fun with it. MISSION SPOILERS BELOW MISSION SPOILERS BELOW MISSION SPOILERS BELOW . . . . . . . . . . . Since my last update, quite a few subs have been uncovered and sunk by my MPAs. The ones near the SLOC were basically out there on their own and it was only a matter of time until the French Atlantiques sniffed them out. There may be more out there but I have quite the buoy field down in the path of the convoys so I am not overly concerned unless they deployed an Oscar down that far or something, which is doubtful as they have CVBGs to worry about. One of the Victors annoyingly managed to take down a Canadian P-3 with a SAM after it got torpedoed and surfaced. Up near the Enterprise the air situation is an uneasy stand-off with both me and the Soviets maintaining local air superiority over our carriers allowing airborne ASW efforts so again a few subs were found by S-3s and SH-60s and sunk. On my side I have the Portsmouth and San Juan headed north to meet the western SAG, and as both closed to within 70nm of the screening Udaloy II I launched the 4 harpoons available on each sub at it hoping to make a hole for me to sneak the subs through. Those from the Portsmouth arrived first since I suck and can't time things properly, and while 3 were taken out by point defence the 4th splashed 30ft short and showered the Udaloy with shrapnel and some underwater blast damage. This was all that I needed, as the damage caused her to put up much less of a fight against the next 4 from the San Juan. Two leakers impacted directly, and she burned for a while until the damage control team threw in the towel 30 minutes later and she sank. Additionally the RN Talent scored a harpoon hit against an Udaloy I out of the east SAG but it wasn't enough to sink it. However, as this was ongoing it appears that despite strict EMCON (imaginary order: "If you don't have wings don't even turn on your microwave." -signed Admiral Robo) the enemy got a good enough bearing on my group from somewhere (probably a sub) to launch a regiment sized 30-40 ship Su-24 strike loaded with ARMs and short range missiles, some fighter escorts, and some surface launched supersonic ASMs at me. Uh oh. I have learned from past mistakes and double checked to make sure "return when winchester" was set to off, and sent anything I had available to meet it, which unfortunately wasn't nearly as much as I would have liked as many were still re-arming and re-fueling from my earlier ASW strike and ECM hunting. On the bright side of things, I had been clutching onto my 6 capable AMRAAM F-18s at alert 5 as a reserve in case of such scenarios. However, after my F-14s and -18s ran down to foul language or throwing their flight manuals at the bandits and vampires, it was clear that some of them were going to make it through. I flicked on the CVBGs radar and ECM knowing the gig was up anyway, and my escort promptly pulled their skirts up and got ready to put up a wall of Sea Sparrows and Standards. With 3 CGs at my disposal, I managed to limit the damage to 1 hit to the Spruance VLS class O'Bannon from what I think was probably an ARM. She survived, but no longer has any functioning AAW capability and I shuffled her to a safer place in the screen. For the fitters, it was an utter massacre, I'm not even sure any of them survived the attack run. Imagine the death star attack scene from star wars but with Luke Skywalker keeling over from a heart attack or something, I don't even know. On the down side of things, I expended nearly half my stock of SAMs which hopefully doesn't come back to bite me. Current status: Western SAG continues to steam south short an ASW destroyer, East SAG is less of a threat 500nm from the big E and short a Kirov. My 12 newly acquired AIM-120 capable F-18s have been tanked north and are a couple hundred NM out to take over the BARCAP within the hour. Strikers are about 2 hours from ready for the most part, though I don't really have enough harpoons to take out everything coming at me so I will need to choose targets carefully. I think the plan will be to send my 8 TASMs at the remaining Udaloy in the west SAG, hopefully allowing my 2 SSNs to sneak in to torpedo range on the big capital ships behind it. For the east SAG, I have the Talent trying to race ahead and angle in for an attack with her garbage tigerfish (as mentioned, shouldn't I have a few spearfish?) which probably won't go well. The Chicago is also moving to position but is 200nm out. As always Gunner, great scenario. Almost seems to have a mind of its own and while challenging it is one of the best I have played so far. Score: 579 Triumph Butchers bill: SIDE: NATO =========================================================== LOSSES: ------------------------------- 2x F/A-18A Hornet 4x F-15C Eagle 1x F-14D Tomcat 3x F-14A Tomcat 1x Falcon 20F-ECM 1x CP-140 Aurora [Orion] 2x F/A-18C Hornet EXPENDITURES: ------------------ 118x AN/SSQ-53B DIFAR 73x AN/SSQ-62B DICASS 58x CA/SSQ-523 CASS [AN/SSQ-50] 11x AN/SSQ-77A VLAD 80x SSQ-963A CAMBS III 108x RGM-109C Tomahawk Blk II TLAM 143x DSTV 7A LOFAR [TSM 8030] 45x Generic Chaff Salvo [5x Cartridges] 32x AIM-7M Sparrow III 93x AIM-120A AMRAAM 29x Generic Flare Salvo [3x Cartridges, Single Spectral] 54x CA/SSQ-550 DIFAR [AN/SSQ-53A] 154x DSTV 4M LOFAR [TSM 8010] 44x AIM-54C Phoenix 200x SSQ-947 Julie Active Range-Only [AN/SSQ-47] 55x AIM-7P Sparrow III 33x AIM-9M Sidewinder 32x AGM-84D Harpoon IC 2x Mk50 Barracuda Mod 0 ALWT 19x Mk46 NEARTIP Mod 5 5x DSTA 3 DICASS [TSM 8040] 4x UGM-84B Harpoon IA 2x Mk48 Mod 5 ADCAP 57x RIM-66M-1 SM-2MR Blk III 39x RIM-67C SM-2ER Blk II 59x RIM-66H SM-2MR Blk II 9x RIM-66E6 SM-1MR Blk VIB 2x RIM-7P Sea Sparrow 7x RIM-7M Sea Sparrow 1x 76mm/62 Compact HE Burst [4 rnds] 5x RIM-66E SM-1MR Blk VI 8x UGM-84D Harpoon IC SIDE: Warsaw Pact =========================================================== LOSSES: ------------------------------- 6x MiG-29 Fulcrum C 2x Tu-16Ye Badger K 1x Tu-16P Badger J 2x Tu-16P Badger L 11x Su-33 Flanker D 13x MiG-31B Foxhound 8x Su-27S Flanker B 4x Su-24MP Fencer F 1x Ka-29RLD Helix 2x Ka-27PL Helix A 1x Be-12PL Mail 2x Su-27S Flanker B 4x Ka-27PL Helix A 1x Ka-25Ts Hormone B 1x RKR Kirov [Pr.1144 Orlan] 1x PLA-671RTM Victor III [Shchuka] 2x PLA-671RT Victor II [Syomga] 1x Tu-16RM-1/2 Badger D 1x PL-877M Kilo 2x PLA-671RTMK Victor III [Shchuka] 40x Su-24M Fencer D 1x BPK Udaloy II [Pr.1155.1] 1x PLARK-949A Oscar II [Antey] 1x PLA-945A Sierra II [Kondor] EXPENDITURES: ------------------ 213x RGB-75 [Basic Search, Passive Omni] 53x RGB-NM-1 [Passive Omni] 82x AA-10 Alamo C [R-27RE, LR SARH] 175x AA-10 Alamo A [R-27R, MR SARH] 16x AA-9 Amos [R-33, SARH] 154x SA-N-6a Grumble [5R55RM] 89x SA-20a Gargoyle [48N6] 88x SA-10b Grumble [5V55R] 31x SA-12a Gladiator [9M83] 17x AA-11 Archer [R-73] 19x Generic Chaff Salvo [5x Cartridges] 93x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges] 16x AA-8 Aphid [R-60TM] 14x Generic Flare Salvo [2x Cartridges, Single Spectral] 3x Generic Flare Salvo [4x Cartridges, Single Spectral] 18x SA-N-11a Grisom [9M311K] 38x AK-130 130mm/54 Twin Frag Burst [2 rnds] 56x PK-10 Chaff [SR-50] 15x PK-2 Chaff [TSP-47] 21x SA-N-9 Gauntlet [9M330-2 Kinzhal] 28x SA-N-4b Gecko [9M33M3] 32x AK-630M 30mm/65 Gatling Burst [400 rnds] 40x Generic Acoustic Decoy 1x SA-N-8 Gremlin [9M36] 2x Generic Flare Salvo [3x Cartridges, Single Spectral] 16x AK-100 100mm/70 Frag 16x SS-N-12 Sandbox Mod 1 [P-500 Bazalt] 10x AS-4 Kitchen A Mod 3 [Kh-22N ASM] 4x Generic Chaff Salvo [8x Cartridges] 12x SS-N-19 Shipwreck [P-700 Granit] 4x AS-17 Krypton C [Kh-31P, ARM] 4x 30mm Twin Gatling Gsh-6-30K Burst [375 rnds] 14x AS-12 Kegler [Kh-25MP, ARM]
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