Herman Hum
08 May 05, 18:22
South China Sea 1987
By Fred Galano
It's a nice and interesting setup. The way that you have most of the aircraft at minimal loadouts at the start so that the player decides the initial ordnance is unique. I was very surprised to start the game under terrorist attack at all my bases. I fought back with the garrison units but both sides quickly ran out of ammo usually without destroying the other side.
I feverishly re-loaded my aircraft and launched the ones that were ready. Luckily, nothing was openly hostile. However, as I started to investigate some ships, I was fired upon by the Communists. The only ready weapons were my TLAM so I unleashed them on Vietnam in hopes of buying myself some time to get ready. I had my hands full with the aircraft storming out from Vietnam and an inbound SSM strike. Luckily, I brought down all the missiles without sustaining damage. I detected the Slava cruiser and noted that the enemy aircraft would almost fly over the SAG.
The AAW bubble created by the SAG almost protected the transit of the Recon planes and the bombers. One flight managed to release their AS-6s and I had a devil of a time bringing down all of them. I rushed to shoot the archers next time and not their arrows. However, the release point was almost right over the SAG so I would have to take a circuitous route around the SAG to get at the bombers. I was successful but was also busy engaging the fighter escorts. They were well timed with the strikers and recon assets. I barely had sufficient missiles to win aerial supremacy.
In the midst of this brouhaha, I detected a stream of aircraft operating like bombers but not headed directly at my CVBG. I was simply thankful that they were not heading towards me so I ignored them. Big mistake.
I dealt with the threat to the CVBG first and was successful in bringing down all of the bombers. However, only then did I see that the stream of previously ignored bombers was heading directly towards Clark AFB! I freaked out and thanked my lucky stars at the same time. I had chosen to arm all the aircraft for AAW work so I would have plenty of assets. Unfortunately, the bombers were already nearing their release points. I scrambled everything into the air and set off to intercept on afterburner.
The race between the fighters and bombers was initially won by the bombers. Again, the first flight launched before my fighters could reach them. However, thanks to my massed fighters, I was able to destroy all of the ALCMs. I engaged the second flight of bombers just seconds before they reached their release point; so much easier to destroy than missiles. I rolled up the entire stream of bombers easily enough.
With the skies pretty much cleared of opposition, I was able to concentrate on the enemy convoys and the terrorists. Once my helos became ready, they quickly blew the terrorist companies into tiny bits. The CVW concentrated on the destruction of the escorts and was stunningly successful. Without naval protection, one convoy was blown to bits with SSMs from the CVBG while the other was destroyed by the SSN New York City's torpedoes.
All that remained was to mop up the enemy's intelligence trawlers and the rebel convoy in the Sulu Sea. My run to port with my convoys was uneventful except for a single chance encounter by my SSN NYC. She was making a speed run when she detected transients! She immediately pulled a Crazy Ivan and salvoed 2 of her 3 remaining torpedoes BOL down the azimuth of the transient. Luckily, she escaped while both her Mk48s locked onto the enemy sub and sent him to the bottom. Real Quick Draw McGraw! My transports reached Subic Bay and I was awarded victory.
Thanks again for putting this fun scenario together.
This scenario is hosted in the WarfareHQ File Archives (http://www.warfarehq.com/archives/index.php?)
And at the FilesOfScenShare (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/FilesOfScenShare/)
By Fred Galano
It's a nice and interesting setup. The way that you have most of the aircraft at minimal loadouts at the start so that the player decides the initial ordnance is unique. I was very surprised to start the game under terrorist attack at all my bases. I fought back with the garrison units but both sides quickly ran out of ammo usually without destroying the other side.
I feverishly re-loaded my aircraft and launched the ones that were ready. Luckily, nothing was openly hostile. However, as I started to investigate some ships, I was fired upon by the Communists. The only ready weapons were my TLAM so I unleashed them on Vietnam in hopes of buying myself some time to get ready. I had my hands full with the aircraft storming out from Vietnam and an inbound SSM strike. Luckily, I brought down all the missiles without sustaining damage. I detected the Slava cruiser and noted that the enemy aircraft would almost fly over the SAG.
The AAW bubble created by the SAG almost protected the transit of the Recon planes and the bombers. One flight managed to release their AS-6s and I had a devil of a time bringing down all of them. I rushed to shoot the archers next time and not their arrows. However, the release point was almost right over the SAG so I would have to take a circuitous route around the SAG to get at the bombers. I was successful but was also busy engaging the fighter escorts. They were well timed with the strikers and recon assets. I barely had sufficient missiles to win aerial supremacy.
In the midst of this brouhaha, I detected a stream of aircraft operating like bombers but not headed directly at my CVBG. I was simply thankful that they were not heading towards me so I ignored them. Big mistake.
I dealt with the threat to the CVBG first and was successful in bringing down all of the bombers. However, only then did I see that the stream of previously ignored bombers was heading directly towards Clark AFB! I freaked out and thanked my lucky stars at the same time. I had chosen to arm all the aircraft for AAW work so I would have plenty of assets. Unfortunately, the bombers were already nearing their release points. I scrambled everything into the air and set off to intercept on afterburner.
The race between the fighters and bombers was initially won by the bombers. Again, the first flight launched before my fighters could reach them. However, thanks to my massed fighters, I was able to destroy all of the ALCMs. I engaged the second flight of bombers just seconds before they reached their release point; so much easier to destroy than missiles. I rolled up the entire stream of bombers easily enough.
With the skies pretty much cleared of opposition, I was able to concentrate on the enemy convoys and the terrorists. Once my helos became ready, they quickly blew the terrorist companies into tiny bits. The CVW concentrated on the destruction of the escorts and was stunningly successful. Without naval protection, one convoy was blown to bits with SSMs from the CVBG while the other was destroyed by the SSN New York City's torpedoes.
All that remained was to mop up the enemy's intelligence trawlers and the rebel convoy in the Sulu Sea. My run to port with my convoys was uneventful except for a single chance encounter by my SSN NYC. She was making a speed run when she detected transients! She immediately pulled a Crazy Ivan and salvoed 2 of her 3 remaining torpedoes BOL down the azimuth of the transient. Luckily, she escaped while both her Mk48s locked onto the enemy sub and sent him to the bottom. Real Quick Draw McGraw! My transports reached Subic Bay and I was awarded victory.
Thanks again for putting this fun scenario together.
This scenario is hosted in the WarfareHQ File Archives (http://www.warfarehq.com/archives/index.php?)
And at the FilesOfScenShare (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/FilesOfScenShare/)