rainman Posted February 2 Report Posted February 2 View File SC93 Sea Control 1993. You have some second line USN ships and a few Harriers. Let's control some sea. Harp Version 2023.11 HCDB2-17909 Submitter rainman Submitted 02/01/2025 Category IOPG 1 Quote
donaldseadog Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 +++SPOILER ALERT+++ I normally try to play at as fast a time acceleration as I can get away with, so spending 5 hrs actual time to knock over only about 20 game time shows that I was kept on my toes. My first self assigned task was to set up an asw cordon of my surface group, get some eyes and ears into the sky from land and sea, station the IFR tanker somewhere I thought safe (west of my surface group and with a single escort) then knock out the recce ability from out of the captured Aman base to the north. My main eyes and ears consisted of pairs of my best Harriers patrolling to my general east (I considered my most likely source of competent air attacks) and F16 from my land base to the west. The Sea Apache roamed about closer to the ships but in the long term proved to be possibly my best units at picking up trouble, and certainly in a pack of 6 each with two harpoon very competent aggressors. With two submarines already generally one each to the north and south I sent them off on their own patrols. To deal with the Oman base Muscat the harrier sead took off once I judged the IFR tanker would be on a suitable station for their return when they'd be needing a bit of a drink. After the sead had dealt with the radar a couple of precision attack bombers did enough damage that my intel men said no aircraft were likely operational, so I let them be. In the meantime my aim-120s toted by the few latest Harriers had taken care of some Bears, Badgers, Mig23s and Mirage. I'd also found to the east some small fry surface groups comprising frigates and PTboats letting my harriers clean them up initially with standoff Mavericks until my chief bosun let me know that we needed to not waste the limited supply, so minor cleanup was with guided bombs. It became clear that the numerous fighter and attack aircraft thought to be stationed at Goa were to be a continuous problem, so we expended in two salvos most of our long range cruise missiles to 'neutralise' this threat. It was a while before the real task came to hand. To the south I finally detected a surface group shortly turning out to be two groups in close company, a carrier, large escorts and a number of supply ships and landing ships, a full invasion force. This is where my luck, or perhaps good management, came undone to a degree. Trying to find a way in with low flying harriers armed with arm and standoff mavericks lost me an uncomfortable number of planes until we formulated a new tactic, nibbling away at their ASW helos and Forger vtol fighters when ever we could, occasionally loosing planes to the Forger but providing a clear path for our closing subs to enter. Two separate vollies of cruise missiles from the submarines and main surface group in synchronis and carefully targting the main AAW escorts made life easier for a combined effort of Sea Apache harpoon mass attacks and then the one by one slaughter at the hands of sub launched torpedoes. Despite the early loses we made good .. Taking out their carrier and the annoying effective Forger made the final goal in sight 1 Quote
donaldseadog Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 Thanks heaps for this Patrick, I loved the way the lack of high performers meant a need to put care and thought into the tactics, and for me a need to adapt to how my fortunes (or otherwise) came to play. I'm looking forward to giving a possible future red side version a run Don 1 Quote
rainman Posted February 4 Author Report Posted February 4 Blue side has no orders, so I'm not sure how that will go. 1 Quote
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