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GBOATZ -> Play The Fool (5/21/2014 5:46:47 PM)
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Very interesting scenario as both sides know what’s coming and there’s far less ambiguity as in other scenarios.
Overall, my goal is to invade Woody Island with Marines and a covering force but it gets a little tricky as you have to destroy the Island’s defenses, SAM’s and SSM, some of them mobile, without damaging the airfield they are protecting so gotta be aware of collateral damage.
Playing from the USN/USMC side and sending out AEW assets you discover almost immediately the Chinese have devised a complex and layered defensive approach so you can’t just lob tomahawks at the defenses to take them out. So my priorities were these:
1. Get air superiority
2. Take out the Chinese long range radars
3. Attrite the Chinese Surface and sub surface forces
4. Make Surgical strikes on Woody Island to remove defensive missiles
5. Get USMC forces to designated location and remain for 8 hours.
Getting Air superiority was the most difficult part as not only was there a formidable amount of fighter and attack aircraft on Woody Island the Marines were to land, but also planes from four mainland Chinese air bases, plus an Aircraft Carrier and its screen of several guided missile cruisers was just North of the island. And I found another SAG of cruisers just to the west of the island to create a logistics nightmare of how knock out the enemy radars. Additionally I discovered there were squadrons of Badger Bombers out looking for my carrier and landing forces. It seemed as if each time I knocked out a wave of fighters or attack planes sudden waves of long range sea skimming guided weapons started appearing out of nowhere! It was most likely the Badgers but I could only guess as they never appeared on radar from any direction! Fortunately none of their attacks pierced my missile defense.
I made knocking out the long range YLC Radar on the mainland my first priority. I sent a large number of fighters with a Growler north from my carrier to lure as many fighters as possible up to intercept them. I also sent one of my subs to intercept the SAG to the west of the island. Once the air battle began in earnest, I targeted a large number of tomahawks on the radar in 8 unit waves. Although many got shot down, 3 made it through and knocked out the YLC.
My sub arrived not long afterward and found that the Chinese ships on the western side of Woody Island were 4 older outdated FFG’s that were no match for my Virginia Class SSN and in about an hour all four were sent to the bottom. Seeing this, the Chinese Aircraft Carrier and its screen suddenly broke camp and headed north and I sent my other sub, a Sea Wolf after them.
Now with a reduced AAW contingent of ships near the island, I figured it was time to start reducing Woody Island’s defenses. I sent several waves of F-35 lightning’s to Woody Island armed with JSOW’s and covered by an F-18 Growler to get them close enough before being discovered to carefully knock out enemy defenses without destroying the airfield. I also used the LCS’s long range guns to knock out several of the SSM’s. Although I lost a couple of Lightning’s, I was successful. Now with a reduced Chinese presence, I then created an AAW and ASW mission around the island and immediately began finding a number of Chinese Ming submarines. They were numerous, but easily found and destroyed by my helos, as well as a number of false contacts and several schools of tuna!
Suddenly to the southeast one of my Global Hawks discovered there was a SAG trying to sneak up behind my landing group and surprise me, but fortunately I had a group of 4 Poseidon’s nearby armed with SLAM’s that gave them quite a surprise instead!
Now, just as I began to think that things were about to quiet down, the Chinese Aircraft carrier made an about face and began heading back for Woody Island, but ran right into my Sea Wolf that I had trailing it. I waited in deep water patiently for her to approach and once close enough took out two of her escorts and then sent her to the bottom as well.
After a number of final Chinese long range bomber attacks, I sent the Lightning’s to bomb the mainland airbases and defenses. After destroying more subs and Tuna, my landing force finally arrived and remained on station the appropriate amount of time.
I must say that I had to remain pretty vigilant the entire time this scenario was played out and I don’t know if my strategy or priorities were the correct ones, as I discovered later I probably wasted a lot of tomahawks when I could have gone in with the lightning’s as I did on Woody Island to take out the mainland defenses, but I accomplished the mission with time to spare and only lost 8 planes, although one was a Grower that got shot down when I wasn’t paying attention!
Overall, a real challenge and lots of fun!
SIDE: USN/USMC
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LOSSES:
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1x F/A-18F Super Hornet
1x EA-18G Growler
2x F/A-18A+ Hornet
1x F/A-18E Super Hornet
3x F-35B Lightning II
EXPENDITURES:
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364x AIM-120D AMRAAM P3I.4
84x Generic Chaff Salvo [5x Cartridges]
8x AN/ALE-50
84x RGM-109E Tomahawk Blk IV TACTOM
25x Mk48 Mod 7 ADCAP CBASS
4x Mk54 LHT Mod 0
2x RUM-139C VLA [Mk54]
149x RIM-174A ERAM SM-6MR Blk I
24x AGM-84K SLAMER-ATA
28x UGM-109E Tomahawk Blk IV TACTOM
14x 57mm/70 Mk295 Mod 0 3P CIGS Burst [4 rnds]
12x Mk214 Sea Gnat Chaff [Seduction]
280x AGM-154A JSOW [145 x BLU-97/B Dual Purpose]
6x UGM-109E Tomahawk Blk IV TACTOM
209x 155mm/52 AGS LRLAP
27x AN/SSQ-53F DIFAR
13x Mk46 NEARTIP Mod 5A(SW)
19x AN/SSQ-62E DICASS
4x Mk234 Nulka
2x RUM-139B VLA [Mk46 Mod 5A(SW)]
6x UGM-109C Tomahawk Blk III TLAM
16x RIM-161B SM-3 NTW Blk IA
SIDE: PLAN
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LOSSES:
20x J-16 Flying Shark [Su-30MK2 Copy]
4x Su-30MKK2 Flanker C
22x J-8F Finback B
16x J-15 Flying Shark [Su-33 Copy]
1x Radar (China YLC-2)
14x Ka-28 Helix A
8x Type 054A Jiangkai II [530 Xuzhou]
9x Z-9C Dauphin 2
4x Type 053H3 Jiangwei II [564 Yichang]
3x Y-8W Cub [KJ-200 Balance Beam]
2x Y-8JB Cub [High New 2]
2x Y-8J Cub
26x JH-7A Flounder
16x C-802 Triple
4x Vehicle (China Type 352 Square Tie)
4x SA-20a Gargoyle [5P85SE] TEL
3x SA-16 Gimlet [9K310 Igla-1] MANPADS
1x Vehicle (Clam Shell [5N66])
1x Vehicle (Tombstone [30N6])
4x HQ-16A TELAR
6x SA-15b Gauntlet [9A330] TELAR
1x Vehicle (HQ-16A FCR)
1x Bunker (ELINT Station)
1x Radar (China YLC-8)
2x Type 035B Ming
3x Type 035G Ming
66x HQ-9A TEL
11x Vehicle (HT-233 [HQ-9])
2x Type 052B Luyang I [168 Guangzhou]
2x Type 052D Luyang III [172 Kunming]
1x Type xxx Shi Lang [16 Liaoning, Ex-Varyag]
1x Type 039G1 Song
6x H-6M Badger
8x H-6D Badger
EXPENDITURES:
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5x Yu-5
115x PL-12
163x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges]
30x AA-12 Adder A [R-77, RVV-AE]
6x A.244
4x AA-11 Archer [R-73M1]
216x HQ-9A
3x 30mm Gsh-30-1 Burst [30 rnds]
13x RGB-75 [Basic Search, Passive Omni]
46x SA-20a Gargoyle [48N6E]
15x SA-N-12 Grizzly [9M317]
1x 30mm Type 730 Burst [240 rnds]
38x C-802 [YJ-82, CSS-N-8 Saccade]
24x HQ-16A
32x SA-15b Gauntlet [9M331]
12x Generic Acoustic Decoy
2x C-802K [YJ-82]
8x DF-21D [ASBM, Conventional, CSS-5 Mod-4]
8x DF-21D RV [ASBM, CSS-5 Mod-4]
SIDE: Neutral
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LOSSES:
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3x Biologic Tuna Fishes
3x False Contact (Small)
5x False Contact (Medium)
2x False Contact (Large)
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