File Name: Russia vs Japan

File Submitter: pboiler

File Submitted: 26 Aug 2008

File Updated: 26 Aug 2008

File Category: WestPac

DB Used: HCDB

Authors: pboiler

Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac

 

Russia-Japan war over newly discovered oil fields.

 

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pboiler,

Although I have just opened your scenario to take a quick look, I have just a couple of (hopefully) helpful comments:

 

(1) Although you appear to intend that this scenario by played by RED, there are no RED orders included.

 

(2) The map is much less cluttered if you place airbase air defenses inside the airbase's formation.

I saw the same as CV32. There are no Red orders. I played the game through as Red, anyway.

 

I'm very impressed with the scenario. Action occurs throughout. You have lots of variety in the units and even though it is a Monster-sized scenario, it doesn't feel like a 'brute-force' treatment. Defences are well laid out and inter-locking.

 

The Lightnings are simply lethal. The only time they revealed themselves is when they fired. Otherwise, they were invisible to all forms of radar.

 

Although I did run the game through and destroyed all the Blue units, I was unable to trigger any ViConds at any point in time.

 

There appear to be "duplicates" of some bases. Is this intentional? i.e. there appear to be 2 Komaki airfields.

I'm very impressed with the scenario. Action occurs throughout. You have lots of variety in the units and even though it is a Monster-sized scenario, it doesn't feel like a 'brute-force' treatment. Defences are well laid out and inter-locking.

 

I had the same feeling. Good balance without feeling overwhelmed by too much to do or too many enemy units.

 

The Lightnings are simply lethal. The only time they revealed themselves is when they fired. Otherwise, they were invisible to all forms of radar.

 

I found the JSF to be formidable as well, but they were only "invisible" when their own radars were silent. This happened a few times, especially when they attempted to sneak into Russian territory and shoot down my orbiting Mainstays. They took several of my Su-27 and Su-35 Flankers when I attempted to go toe to toe with them.

 

There appear to be "duplicates" of some bases. Is this intentional? i.e. there appear to be 2 Komaki airfields.

 

Confirmed.

 

I have damaged or destroyed a number of Blue bases, and wiped out the Blue CVBG. No victory conditions triggered.

The Lightnings are simply lethal. The only time they revealed themselves is when they fired. Otherwise, they were invisible to all forms of radar.

 

I found the JSF to be formidable as well, but they were only "invisible" when their own radars were silent. This happened a few times, especially when they attempted to sneak into Russian territory and shoot down my orbiting Mainstays. They took several of my Su-27 and Su-35 Flankers when I attempted to go toe to toe with them.

The Lightnings gave themselves away only when they turned on their own radar. A couple of them managed to waltz in and do damage if they kept their radar off.

 

In the future, if I ever have F-35 on my side, I'm never going to turn on the radar. I'll just go wherever I please and fire away. I don't think that this good for the AI.

 

To make the AI truly challenging, is there a way to 'remove' the radar from the F-35? Or, possibly just add the radar as a 'pod' to certain loadouts? A radar-less F-35 with a load of AMRAAM is going to be invincible.

To make the AI truly challenging, is there a way to 'remove' the radar from the F-35? Or, possibly just add the radar as a 'pod' to certain loadouts? A radar-less F-35 with a load of AMRAAM is going to be invincible.

 

I won't likely do that. I'd much rather focus efforts on creating the low probability of intercept (LPI) radar model in the code.

Hey, if you fly it at Low level with the radar off, absolutely anything armed with the -C5, -C7, or -D model of the AIM-120 is going to be horrifically lethal air-to-air. Look-down detection ranges for the fighter radars generally aren't great enough to spot you before you get into your own missile range.