February 2, 20251 yr 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
February 4, 20251 yr +++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
February 4, 20251 yr 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
February 25, 20251 yr Congrats Patrick!!! Thanks!!! Great, patience and difficult scenario. I appreciate the slow pace, need to avoid hasty decisions, and the introduction of Sea Apache, playing most of the first day at 5-10 seconds time scale. Also I did avoid detection the detection of the Task Force and the subsequent big Russian SSMs, or perhaps were launched and lost and undetected by the Blue Side. I think this is my first long comment about a scenario, doing it partly because the need to keep records of the missile expenditure in a Word document, after evolutionated in the kill list.
February 25, 20251 yr SPOILER ALERT !!!! 1993 Scenario ammo limits: AGM-84D 32 -16 -16 (Expended all 32) AGM-65E 60 -6 -4 -4 -2 -4 -2 -4 -2 -4 (Expended 32) Penguin Mk 2 Mod 7 16 -2 -2 -2 (Expended 6) AIM-120C5 48 -4 -4 -1 -4 -2 -4 -2 -4 -1 -4 (Expended 28) AGM-114 60 -6 -16 -16 (Expended 38) Blue side loses: -2x -2x AV-8B 85 (Total 4, shoot down by Forgers). -1x AV-8B 85 at 4:06:22 (Shoot down by Forgers). -1x AV-8B+ 93 at 4:05:19 (Shoot down by Forgers). -1xF-16 ADF (Shoot down by Forgers). -1xF-16 ADF at 4:06:03 (Shoot down by warship SAM). -3x Sea Apache (Shoot down by Forgers). (Some aircraft loses were by the bad count, because Intelligence estimated 12x Forgers in theatre, but were 16x! Also, only now see with 12x aircraft shoot down Blue Side loses, and I was very near!). Red side loses: -2x MIG-23MF -4x Su-27K shoot down at 4:06:22, AIM-120 and AIM-9 from Harriers. Goa 1x unidentified fighter, 2x unidentified attack (Cruise missile strike) Muscat -2x unidentified recce (Tu-95RTs) (Cruise missile strike), damaged to 19% by F-16 attacks with Mk84 dumb bombs. Tu-95RTs chased by Harriers flying near US Task Force -1 (Total 3x Tu-95RTs loses). Yak-36M -6 (2 with F-16 AIM-9, rest by Harriers) -6 -2 -2 (Total 16) Ka-25 Ts -5 (Total 5, all by Harriers) Ka-27PL -4 (2 with F-16 with -1 Sparrow -1 Sparrow) -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 (Total 16x Ka-27PL shoot down). 1x Sea King Mk42 -1 (Shoot down by Harriers) 4x Veer/Tarantul at 67/40 nm of the US Task Force, by Harriers with AGM-65. 1x Godavari at 67/40 nm of the US Task Force, by Harriers with AGM-65. 2X Nilgiri (Leander) at 67/40 nm of the US Task Force, by Harriers with AGM-65. 1xShankush Shishumar 1/86 SS, early sunk by ASW helicopters. 1x Papa Pr661 K-222 SSGN, early sunk by Sturgeon. (by Sturgeon/USS Finback, with 37% damage after some early Russian ASW helicopters attacks) 1x Victor I Pr671V SSN, sunk by helicopters. 1x Victor III Pr671RTM SSN, sunk at 4:06:03 by Sturgeon. 1x Udaloy Pr1155/1 92 (Early sunk by Harpoons launched by Sea Apaches) 1xSlava Pr1164/89, sunk at 4:05:59 Sturgeon. 1x Udaloy Pr1155 92, sunk at 4:05:48 by Sturgeon. 1xKara Pr1134B Kerch, sunk at 4:04:43 by Sturgeon. 1x Kynda mod Pr58/2 Grozny, sunk at 4:04:14 by Permit/USS Jack. 1x Ivan Rogov Pr1174 Mitrofan Moskalenko, sunk at 4:06:37 by Sturgeon. 1x Ivan Rogov Pr1174 Nikolayev sunk at 4:05:50 by Sturgeon. 1xKiev Novorossisk, sunk at 4:05:09 by Sturgeon (with 5x helos yet on board), achieving Minimum Victory Condition. 1x Polnockny Pr773 SDK-156, sunk at 4:04:12 by Harriers with GBU-16. 1x Polnockny Pr773 SDK-154, sunk at 4:04:12 by Harriers with GBU-16. At this moment Total Victory Condition is achieved (Apparently by 4x amphibious and Kiev sunk). Post Total Victory were achieved these other kills: 1x Sofia Pr1552 Akhtuba, sunk at 4:03:49 by Harriers/GBU-16. 1x MIG-23MF, shoot down by AIM-120 at 4:03:18. 2x MIG-23MF, shoot down by AIM-9 at 4:03:17. 1x MIG-23MF, shoot down by AIM-9 at 4:03:15. 1x Kanin Pr57A Bolky, sunk by Permit at 4:02:59 (latest Russian escort). 1x Ropucha II Pr775M Azov, sunk at 4:02:42 by Harriers/GBU-16. 1x Alligator Pr1171/4 Nicolay Filchenkov, sunk at 4:02:42 by Harriers/GBU-16. 1x Merchant Bratsk, sunk at 4:02:09 by Harriers/GBU-16. 1x Sverdlov Pr68bis Murmanks CL, sunk at 4:01:34 after a Mk48 impact from Permit+some 5xAGM-65E of Harriers (apparently last Russian combat unit). 1x Merchant United Pioneer, sunk at 4:00:56 by Harriers/GBU-16. 1x Merchant Zhitomir, sunk at 4:00:55 by Harriers/GBU-16.
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