I have been playing the EC2003 Battle, Wrath for the IOPG now for nearly a week;  I think I am on the 5th or 6th attempt.  I am struggling to understand what I have to do to win.  

I have to launch maximum effort strikes against terrorist bases (ZZa, ZYa ZXa)

Destroy C31 system as a prime target (ZVb) 

suppress air defense activity around Bandar Abbas (Ztb, ZOb)

 

My first problem is that there is no ZZa, only a ZZb.

Even if I destroy all the bases (assuming ZZa is really ZZb) and am in the process of attacking Ztb and ZOb, the loss of 12 planes triggers the enemy minimum win conditions.

Is this a Kobayashi Maru, no win situation?

Spoiler alert....

For minimum victory, Blue must destroy any 7 Red bases.

For total victory, Blue must sink any 20 Red ships.

 

Red doesn't have to do much for minimum victory as you've found, and double what you've found for total victory.

 

That's strange about not seeing the terrorist bases, what version of the game are you using?  Screenshot attached of 2020.004 (unreleased as yet) showing them as expected, pretty far up North.

As for no-win or not, someone else will have to chime in there.  You certainly have appropriate resources to win but the length of time looks short to me as you appear to have only 24 hours of game time to win and that seems to me to be a tall order.

 

 

Thanks Tony,

Many thanks for your reply. The current lockdown in the UK has reignited my enjoyment of the game and I had not played this series of scenarios.  The EW effects and refuelling are also much improved now.

Spoiler Alert

It is build 2015.027 and I have finally cracked it.  As you point out, it is the lack of time and a hidden air defence DDG that put paid to my previous attempts.  Everything that can be converted to a tanker needs to be and as early as possible. Diego Garcia is a metaphorical and literal waste of time in this scenario.

BW

John