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A couple of requests for the next iteration:
a) USMC Harriers with Amraam http://defensetech.org/2011/12/08/harriers-now-armed-with-amraams/
Indian Navy Mig29's with a wider array of weapons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MiG-29K_on_the_MAKS-2009_%2802%29.jpg(I know, but do what you can..)
c) An AEW variant of the V-22
d) A version of the "sea apache" concept. http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/mcdonnell_sea_apache.php
Most of these requests have to do with modeling a "sequestered" USN/USMC in the years to come, with traditional carriers unavailable. BTW, I think removing the AARGM capability from the F-35 is a great idea. THANKS
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I have found that if you want to accurately model a real world situation, small to medium is usually better. I's easier to "make your point", so to speak. Brad's "Karafuto", and "Trophy hunter" are excellent examples of this type. I prefer them "small and hard". Many others prefer the huge ones. They do keep you busier, and it's true that you can have a nail-biter, just because it's so hard to keep track of that much stuff. Hope this helps.
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This seems right on. it's an 8, no meds needed. How about, in the absence of a diminished USA, Brazilian resistance to Chinese adventurism in or near Venezuela? Or in West Africa? The general subject of Chinese influence in Africa has great potential, Brad has already explored that in "Trophy Hunter", an excellent scenario.
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Let me see-. There are NO modern maritime patrol A/C available. There are six reasonably ranged surface search radars in the whole available force, all on helicopters. NO tankers or EW A/C. 18 ESM capable A/C in the whole bunch, four of them helicopters. Lousy sonars and useless subs, no bombers, a total of four long range cruise missiles. To add to the general joy, 2/3 of the attack A/C at Lingshui have an attack combat radius of 250nm or less. All against lots of modern American and European hardware. What a miserable situation. Sounds like great fun.
It wasn't supposed to be easy, but it can be beat. I don't want to post how to beat it though for those that haven't played it yet.
No worries. hard is good.
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Let me see-. There are NO modern maritime patrol A/C available. There are six reasonably ranged surface search radars in the whole available force, all on helicopters. NO tankers or EW A/C. 18 ESM capable A/C in the whole bunch, four of them helicopters. Lousy sonars and useless subs, no bombers, a total of four long range cruise missiles. To add to the general joy, 2/3 of the attack A/C at Lingshui have an attack combat radius of 250nm or less. All against lots of modern American and European hardware. What a miserable situation. Sounds like great fun.
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File Name: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
File Submitter: rainman
File Submitted: 25 Dec 2011
File Category: IOPG
DB Used: HCDB_111211
Authors: Patrick Howard
Battleset-IOPG: .scp - EC2003 - EC2003
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. can Iran really close the Straits of Hormuz? Even if the US is not involved?
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File Name: So You Think You Can Dance
File Submitter: rainman
File Submitted: 8 Dec 2011
File Category: WestPac
DB Used: HCBD 111122
Authors: Patrick Howard
Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac
PRC tries a "Pearl Harbor" attack. Let's see how scary the Chinese really are. RED only, you are PRC, you'll have a carrier plus DF-21's.. Duck.
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Just played Butt1 & Butt2 as "worm-up". As blue side player it's nice. As red side player it is very hard so far. I'm not able to detect a blue unit before it launch an AMRAAM or Meteor. Finally, I lost all air assets.
Look at the "Aircraft and Weapons" pdf included with the scenario. You will see that some (but not all) of your A/C have "passive ESM". This is the ability to detect radar emissions from an enemy A/C or ship. This means that you can detect enemy A/C WITHOUT turning on your own radars. This is important because a) the USN has many more A/C with this ability, and
your assets in this regard are very limited. (look at the orders, it pretty much says the same thing). So. The AI tends to activate a radar at the slightest provocation. Also, if the USN detects an airborne radar, it will send fighters to intercept it. So station at least two "ESM capable" A/C at high altitude near your formation. Now look at the "weapons" section of the pdf. You will find certain air to air missiles that do not require a radar to guide them. This gives you the tools to set an ambush. And remember, your carrier group has superb SAM coverage. So you can lure enemy A/C within that zone as well. Another technique is the "missile trap", an old USN trick. Position an AAW capable ship on the threat axis about 100 NM from the main body, with its radars off. (you will have to protect this ship from subs). Using airborne radars lure enemy A/C within its missile envelope, and use the SAM's to kill the aircraft. The USN approach of airborne strike warfare will not work so well here. You will have to kill the carrier with SSM's or subs. Welcome to the Russian reality, and thanks to all who made this so realistic. Hope this helps. -
Admiral Konstantin Sidenko took a big pull of vodka and gave the sigh a working man gives after a long day in the fields, or the factory. Things seem less hopeless, he thought, when you have finished a plan and set it into motion. He had thought it through and came up with the following:
Goals- (A)To drive the Japanese from Yuzhno-Kurilsk, and to (
protect the resupply convoyORDERS:
Russian Air Force and Naval Aviation to complete the following ferry missions to provide:
Burevestnik: 1-A-50, 4-SU-24, 2-SU-34, 4-SU-25BM, 2-MiG29, 4 SU-27, 4-SU-35
Chuguevka 2- May, 2-TU-142,4-MiG31-BM, 2-SU-50
This will leave the TU-22's at Petroplavosk because you cannot ferry the AS-6 in a cargo aircraft. GP loadouts for the Tu-22 MAY be used from Burevestnik.
Orders:
Chuguevka: Provide CAP and AsuW CAP for convoy. Provide ASW support as soon as ferry operations permit.
Burevestnik : Ferry helos to FARP to help with AEW support. Provide local CAP to protect base. Set traps for F-35's
Set up traditional AEW setup when A-50 arrives
Mistral Group-(AES) set ASW patrols, strict EMCON. Ready all KA-50 helos to escort. Launch KA29TB's as ELINT platforms to detect hostile radars
Nanuchkas(AIS)- Head for the gap north of Hokkaido, and wait to join the Mistral group
Bystryy- South to join Mistral group, use high speed.
And he remembered the following things-
When dealing with stealth aircraft, traditional AEW has failings. The attacking aircraft may shoot at your AEW bird before it detects them. What do you do? He thought through Leytugo's tactical philosophy. Current JSDF doctrine requires A) Activate radars when there is a risk of detection
Activate radars when an enemy unit is in AAW range, and C) Return to base if you cannot intercept an aircraft at its current speed. And so he decided: For each vulnerable base, set up an aircraft on an expected axis of attack, that was faster than the F-35, with its radar active. Also have at least two ESM capable A/C nearby to detect and identify hostile radars. Have another group of fighters loitering nearby. When either the radar or the missile is detected, have the "AEW" fighter flee on burner. The have the other fighters pounce on the F-35's as they return to base.
It seemed to Sidenko that the key was to keep the amphib group undetected, as the above tactic would lead to its detection.. Hmmm.. One thing at a time, Lord or Lenin willing, he thought. Tomorrow is another day..
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More specifications: I remember long time ago, in many UFO books, the maximum speed habitually quoted for UFOs is 27000 Km/h. The reason is only because that is the escape speed from the Earth, and logically an alien space ship must be capable of at least reach that speed (supposing it don't come from other dimension or the Hollow Earth) ... But I think the maximum factible speed in HCE is 9999
Yeah, I am not going to worry too much about that. I'm only concerned with the alien ships' movement inside Earth's atmosphere, so I'm figuring about 1,500 knots for the drone (in pure ion fusion afterburner, heh) and a crawl for the 'hovering' mothership.
Great idea about the 'walker' too. Classic. I've added that.
These entries' specs will probably be provisional as we figure out what works best.
I played around with these a little, and have a few thoughts about drones-
NO radar- The HCE game engine is irresponsible about activating a radar. Once detected by ESM, the drones are relatively easy to kill.
Add ESM- and make them VERY stealthy. This will force the human player to be careful about activating radars and lead to more visual, short range detections.
Much faster. I'm thinking at high alt 850/1250/2500 or so.
Longer range. A typical (F-15) fighter fleeing on burner will cause a drone to RTB with a 1000 NM range.
Some area defence for the mothership.
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Crap. Just Crap. So thought Admiral Konstantin Sidenko as he slid the vodka bottle away across the desk and looked
at the telex one more time. Japanese at Yuznho-Kurilsk, and I have to kick them out. And just three months until a
nice retirement, the Black Sea villa, the wine cellar, the mistress, oh, the mistress...Crap! What rotten luck. I
wonder who told them what lousy shape we're in. He stood up, put the bottle in the cabinet across the room. No more
of that for a while. He put some water in the samovar for tea and assessed the situation. In a large sense, he was
"screwed" as the Americans put it. Years of low budgets and corruption had sapped the Far East command. The Air
Force commander spent more time on the phone with his Mafia friends than he did with his subordinates, and could
provide barely forty serviceable attack and fighter aircraft, many of them Cold War relics.The best units he could
provide were the four new MiG-35's, six SU27SM's, and the two top secret PAK-50's. The rest, Sidenko thought, was
junk. Old SU-27's with lousy radars, MiG-29's with short legs, and neither able to refuel from tankers. At least he
had three of those, old IL-76's. There were a number of SU-25's as well, with the newer SM version capable of
refueling and carrying ship killer missiles. The Air Force could also provide an A-50 AEW jet, and a number of
transport aircraft. At least getting the little green animals to Burevestnik would be their problem. Fortunately,
the Air Force logistics staff had stocked Burevestnik with plenty of weapons. The PVO had been warned, and SAM
defences were supplied and alert. Things were looking up, and then he looked at his own assets. And reached for the
vodka bottle again. The supply group for Burevestnik had sailed, with a peacetime escort of one Udaloy destroyer.
The situation at Vladivostok was hopeless, the Varyag was undergoing a turbine overhaul, The Marshal Shaposhnikov
was in Singapore, and the other Udaloys were down with a virus to their combat systems. The Bystryy was out of
position after a training cruise, but was at least available. The two Nanuchka corvettes were returning to
Burevestnik at best speed as well. There were also two subs, a Kilo badly out of position, and the Narval, heading
to Burevestnik. Naval Aviation presented a better picture. They could provide two SU-34's, fast and capable, eight
Mig 31's, four old and four new, and, most importantly, four long range ASW aircraft. Four venerable but useful SU-24's.
And two Tu-22M3 Backfires.
Konsantin's protoge in aviation, Captian Ignatieff, young and energetic, had fought Moscow to retain not only the
two TU-22's, but as many as forty of the old KH22 missiles. These had been refitted with the low altitude seeker
heads in the 1990's, and Sidenko said a silent prayer of thanks to all of the airmen who kept those hydrazine
powered horrors serviceable for all those years. Although not capable of the high altitude approach anymore, these
would be crucial to his plans. And plans he had.He considered his opponents. The JSDF was all that the Russian
military was not. Well funded, vital, supplied with modern weaponry, and led by Admiral B. Leytugo, a brilliant
tactician, who "sank" an American carrier last summer as part of their joint excercises, they were one of the best
military organizations on the planet. Commanding as many as two hundred modern fighter and attack aircraft, and
having Ageis destroyers and excellent submarines, they seemed invincible. The jewel in the JSDF crown was the new
F-35 stealth fighter. Traditional Russian doctrine had no plan for this aircraft. Sidenko thought about
heading across the room for the vodka bottle again. And then he thought "a stealth fighter with his radar on is...
just a slow airplane".. so, how do we get the Japanese stealth fighters to light up? When they are detected (not
likely) or when they SHOOT.. And so Konstantin's plan took shape. (to be continued)...
Requests for the HCDB (Official DB of HCE) and HCDB2
in Database Design & Discussion
a) Thanks
c) Waaah.
D)You bet, that's what I did to test the idea.