May 30, 201016 yr "It gets hot" A HCE scenario written by Donald Thomas aka donaldseadog Battleset: EC 2003 GIUK Database: HCDB The scenario is designed to be played from the British = blue side. After Action Report, Part I by Ralf Koelbach Another scenario focusing on a France vs. Britain conflict. The English Channel will be the battlefield and a lot of assets are in the game. 1. First steps Since the Channel is small and easy to cross for fighter bombers, safety first is to choose. I ferry several aircraft from the Northern bases to forward ones in order to build up a fortress close to the Channel. The carrier group leaves RN Devenport and its aircraft and helos are ferried to the Ark Royal. 2. First contact After a few minutes contact is made: several hostile aircraft heading for my carrier group! 3. Three Mirages downed by RN Devenports Harrier CAP. Many more inbound. 4. Armat ARMs from the South, heading for my carrier group! That will be close. 5. Two more Mirages shot down. 6. My Tornados and Typhons arrive just in time and down eleven more Mirages. The first attack wave has been destroyed. 7. A group of six Super Etendards, heading for one of my bases, has been wiped out by a pair of Tornados. Meanwhile my first SEAD attack versus a French mobile SAM site was a success. 8. What the hell are Neuron UCAVs? Six just popped up right besides a pair of Tornados. Two shot down, Typhons ordered to support. 9. The surviving four Neurons kill a mobile SAM site, but are shot down by the Typhons. Those Typhons are real good interceptors; they shot down six Jaguars a few seconds later. 10. Game over - minimum victory conditions achieved!? Intended? I think the fight has just begun since tons of red aircraft are approaching from the Souh East. Maybe just a little bug in the Minimum Victory Conditions? After Action Report, Part II 11. Massive dogfighting over the Channel. First losses for me, six aircraft. Eight or nine more kills. It becomes tough. 12. More dogfighting. Two more losses, but over ten kills. How mayn Rafales does he have? My Typhoons are better platforms, but scarce. 13. Two Rafales kill four of my Northern SAGs helos before they are downed by ship bases SAMs. 14. Meanwhile a combined SEAD and PGM attack destroys a French SAM site. 15. Lost another couple of those invaluable Typhoons, but got a dozen more Rafales and Mirages. Kill ratio is good, about 5:1 16. Heavy air attacks on my carrier group, mobile SAM site and bases.Dozens of attackers, Jaguars and Super Etendards. 17. I´m desperately short of fighters. But I´ve downed 99 ac so far. How many more does he have? 18. Meanwhile I´ve downed 123 ac and lost 20. Hope that he has no reserves since I have not many fighters left. 19. RN Devenport has been hit. 21 per cent damage.Simply not enough fighters and SAMs left to defend against all those raids. 20. Counterattack! Two flights of SEAD-armed Tornados are heading for French bases. 21.I blinded several sensors; time to go after the sites with other loadouts. 22. Ouch! Just detected a French carrier group, centered around the Charles de Gaulle, approaching from the North east, heading towards my home turf. This means many more Rafales. It means alos, that I´m between the buttons. 23. Strategy: I have to weaken the French bases and airfields. 24. Execution: Attack with the strategical reserve, the 18 GR.4 Tornados. Loadout: Storm Bringer, target: Paris. 25. Paris is guarded by Patriot batteries. This costs me a high price. But it is necessary to kill the sensors in order to deliver heavy punches with cruise missiles. 26. Working hard on Brest, too. One attack after the other. Harriers, Bucs and Tornados. 27. Just after I discovered a French SSBN approaching from the Atlantic...the game is over! Victory. This is an very entertaining scenario. Thanks, Don! ...and to be honest: I´ll play on. There is much left to attack and destroy: - the hostile carrier group just coming closer - many hostile bases and SAM sites - hostile subs So one hint for the designer: Maybe make the VCs both minimum and total harder to achieve.
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