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***SPOILER ALERT*** After Action Report Enrique has provided a double barrel effort here, two similar scenario for us to delve into... I started playing blue side the version 1988-05 JFK USSR N BARCAP.sco There was sufficient hint that things would be hot from the start so I opened the game in zero time compression, started the process of arming the many 'dormant' aircraft and allocating those ready to fly with patrol locations or sectors within their group formation. This included a few fighters, a couple of ASW and very handy AEW from the carrier group. Once the ball started rolling it was on for young and old ... we got a contact close in of a Kashin unit and visual of a number of incoming missile. Radars went hot and four ships opened fire with their bug guns, the Kashin went down quick and our SAM units were put into heavy defense mode but still JFK took a few hits, enough to markedly reduce her efficiency and slow down the aircraft armaments that we obviously would need. The Kashin had apparently been assisted by an Okean class unit sailing beyond our guns, but not our Harpoon, she soon joined the denizens of the deep. But in these first minutes the near continuous rain of missiles came at us. Our first airborne fighters put their metal in to play getting right down to cannon fire on the incoming missiles, many probably form undetected submarines but form the incoming bearings we at least had vectors to search on. Getting the ASW patrols out early and with an idea of direction was showing it's virtue with an Alpha class SSN detected within the first half hour, but it would take some time before she was sunk. An hour in, coming up on our screens to the north were numbers of large air contacts, some identified as various EW, recce and bombers, Backfires, Blinders and Badgers. Armed fighters started to roll out of the hangers and into the air heading out to hopefully intercept now expected incoming bombers before they let loose their belly loads of mischief. To a large degree we succeeded but some got thru and our fighters exhausted their AAM on the incoming onslaught but as evidence of the pilot skills only a few made it thru to need interception by ships SAM batteries. In the meantime a large surface group came under the radar of the AEW, it had been expected, or at least made allowance for, and our strikers were half way thru taking on predominantly ARM munitions and some harpoon for good measure. 40 minutes after the sighting of the first attacking missiles and our own boys were returning the compliment with Standard ARM damaging two escorts. We now had a significant, and busy, ASW guard around the carrier group, and also our smaller surface group comprising our valuable auxiliaries and escorts which were trying for a safest route. Also our own EW units were operating and extra surveillance from land based ASW units based to our west. By the three hour mark our fighter screen had downed significant numbers of bombers and large auxiliary air units, the numbers of incoming missiles from the north had greatly reduced allowing them to move to provide addition defense against the inevitable missile attacks from the surface group approaching from the west which had by now suffered significant damage from our Standard ARM greatly reducing their ability to defend. And so we continued, both fixed and rotary wing ASW units scouring for the submarines we new were their following their surprise missile launches, then over four hours in as a sign they were getting in closer we had torpedo contacts. Evasive action standoff ASW ship defense and heavy air unit ASW work saw results with what would be the next of many subs sunk, but also the loss of one of our valuable escort. Holding of our own SSM until we were close enough to launch a significant attack of the SAG we sank most of the group including Slava, Sovremennyy and Krivak class ships. This got us a heart warming message of Minimum Victory, but with the Reds now offering much less aggression we knew we could finish the job and 40 minutes later with the sinking of a further Okean class vessel we succeeded. Another epic Enrique, thanks for your time and skilled effort.