ColonelMolerat
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Oh you devs! I think I was tempted to call you some awful things that would get me permanently banned from these forums on my 100th attempt at this mission!! I've finally done it though (after two... three months?)! It's a really interesting one - the first I've really had to consider SRBMs in detail, with a lot of help from the posts here and a thorough reading of this brilliant AAR. It's a funny case of not actually being that hard once you know the correct tactics - final score of 2570. I started with some good luck - shooting down four satellites! - then used my cyberwarriors to disable the Korean THAAD and sent all of my southern SEAD and LACM planes towards Okinawa, along with two of my four ECM planes and an AAW shield. Along the way I launched my cruise missiles towards Okinawa - almost all at the four runways, but some at the hangers). After a bit longer I launched the SRBMs, so that everything would arrived almost at once. With the SRBMS I aimed the penetrators at the hardened aircraft shelters (100points each) and everything else at the runways/hangars. The strike force arrived completely unnoticed, actually a bit ahead of the missiles (they flew low towards the end)! They took out a few SAM sites, softening up the defences, then fled. The AAW planes ended being more of a liability than anything else - they arrived before the enemy had taken off, then some got shot down during the retreat. Next, I used my very Northern SRBMS to target the Japanese runways (except for the penetrators which I saved for Korea). These did some damage, but were most use in using up the Ronald Reagans missile defences (it has a long range, so wastes them all on threats over Japan. Around the same time, all of my Badgers (I had these formed-up in China) fired on Korea, along with my Cruise missiles in the North. Repeating the pattern I used against Okinawa, I timed some AAW and jamming to arrive just behind the missiles, and the SRBMs to arrive at the same time as everything else - the AAW destroyed the enemy planes (who were distracted by shooting down my cruise missiles); I had forgotten to include any SEAD, though. Again, pretty much everything targeted runways, with some missiles hitting the hangars and the penetrators hitting the hardened aircraft shelters. Finally, I realised my anti-ship missile launchers in the West were out-of-range of the Reagan - they raced East until they were in range, and fired, sinking it for a final 1000 points! (Not mentioned - I had set up an AAW and AEW wall to target incoming missiles, but I kept out of range of any dogfights. I also lured some enemy planes into range of my SAMs when they tried to hit my newly-launched cruise missiles in the North. A very rewarding mission, and very interesting to learn how to complete - my first attempt scored -2200 points, then I got around 100-500 a few times, then 1300, until finally this! SIDE: United States-Japan-South Korea =========================================================== LOSSES: ------------------------------- 1x P-3C Orion Update III 5x F-15C Eagle 7x A/C Hardened Aircraft Shelter (1x Large Aircraft) 5x Ammo Shelter 4x F-16CJ Blk 52 Falcon [KF-16C] 13x A/C Hangar (2x Medium Aircraft) 2x F-16CM Blk 42 Falcon 2x A/C Hardened Aircraft Shelter (1x Medium Aircraft) 32x F/A-18E Super Hornet 8x F/A-18F Super Hornet 5x EA-18G Growler 3x E-2C Hawkeye 2000 1x CVN 76 Ronald Reagan [Nimitz Class] EXPENDITURES: ------------------ 87x MIM-104F Patriot PAC-3 MSE 2x SAM-4 Chu-SAM [Type 03] 8x MIM-104C Patriot PAC-2 50x MIM-104E Patriot PAC-2 GEM+ 36x AAM-4B Kai [Type 99] 69x AIM-120D AMRAAM P3I.4 1x MIM-23E I-HAWK 36x UGM-109E Tomahawk Blk IV TACTOM 28x UGM-109E Tomahawk Blk IV TACTOM 11x AAM-5 [Type 04] 17x AIM-9X Sidewinder 60x RIM-161E SM-3 NTW Blk IIA 48x THAAD C-2 12x RIM-161B SM-3 NTW Blk IA 71x 20mm/85 M61A1 Vulcan Burst [100 rnds] 39x Generic Chaff Salvo [5x Cartridges] 31x AIM-120B AMRAAM 24x AIM-9S Sidewinder 16x MIM-104F Patriot PAC-3 ERINT 5x AN/ALE-50 [RT-1646/ALE] 14x AIM-120C-5 AMRAAM P3I.2 54x MIM-23C I-HAWK 4x KM-SAM [Modified 9M96] 16x RIM-174A-2 ERAM SM-6MR Blk IA [Dual I] 1x 127mm/54 HE-CVT [HiFrag] SIDE: China =========================================================== LOSSES: ------------------------------- 3x JH-7A Flounder EXPENDITURES: ------------------ 4x SC-19 96x DF-10 GLCM 16x KD-88 LACM 26x YJ-91 [Kh-31P, ARM] 13x PL-15 14x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges] 24x DF-26C [Conventional] 24x DF-15B [Conventional, CSS-6 Mod-2] 36x DF-15C [Penetrator, CSS-6 Mod-3] 36x DF-16B [Penetrator] 12x DF-16B [Submunitions] 48x DF-21C [Conventional, CSS-5 Mod-3] 24x DF-26C RV [Conventional] 36x DF-16B RV [Penetrator] 19x DF-15B RV [Conventional, CSS-6 Mod-2] 12x DF-16B RV [Submunitions] 182x KD-20 [CJ-10A] ALCM 36x DF-15C RV [Penetrator, CSS-6 Mod-3] 48x DF-21C RV [Conventional, CSS-5 Mod-3] 102x PL-12 8x PL-10 24x SA-20a Gargoyle [48N6E] 4x SA-20b Gargoyle [48N6E2] 4x 30mm Gsh-30-1 Burst [30 rnds] 20x DF-21D [ASBM, Conventional, CSS-5 Mod-4] 13x DF-21D RV [ASBM, CSS-5 Mod-4]
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