Thanks, Bart.

I did actually give it another go this afternoon, but the Styxes are very difficult to stop and I lost the Belknap to them, which rather finished things. Just one hit is generally fatal. The two TLAMs did no significant damage to the Northern forts and I didn't get into bombardment ...

I guess so. The problem has been that I don't know that orders are coming when I start a scenario and have been reluctant to just sit around in the interim.

I'll move on to Gates of Hell and follow your advice on that one to see what difference it makes.

Good to know that the difficulty level ...

Situation

This one covers the first couple of days of Coalition air strikes against Saddam’s Iraq. You can only play the Coalition side. The main emphasis is on hitting a range of targets around Baghdad.

To do the job, you have three carrier groups (Saratoga/Kennedy in the Eastern Mediterranean ...

The best bet in such cases is to move the fighters manually to the desired patrol area and only then assign them to the mission.

This short scenario sees the USS Wisconsin battle group attempt a bombardment mission against former Norwegian coastal forts, now being operated by the Soviets, SW of Tromso. Under cover of this operation, a Sea King from the battleship needs to insert some special forces near the Swedish border to ...

Situation

This one tries to explore what would have happened had the Iraqis followed-up their conquest of Kuwait with an invasion of Saudi Arabia before the Coalition was properly ready. You can only play the coalition side.

Without going into exhaustive detail, you have two CVBGs (Roosevelt and ...

Day 1

18/3/94 08:00Z: Turbulent was actually fine – no idea what the Out of Comms notification was about. I sent her to Creep parallel to the Norwegian coast.

The Russians fired on and sank five Neutral fishing boats off Norway, wasting 4 Styxes and 8 Shipwrecks, then gleefully claimed 50VP. It ...

Unfortunate, as you say. As you know, I prefer to play scenarios as designed. Under the circumstances, I guess I'll have to allow the AI the points it has been awarding itself (at 10 a time) for sinking neutral Norwegian fishing boats.

I'm just over halfway through Day 1, but I won't finish this ...

Setting the Scene

With the exception of #34 The Longest Battle, this is the largest scenario in the whole Fury series, spanning ten days and half the Atlantic Ocean. Just getting ready to play it has been a game in itself and forms the first of eleven instalments of this AAR, which will be ...

For Sparrows, 19nm (50%) generally works well enough (just be sure to follow Straight In as discussed). Sidewinders are fine at 5nm. I take the view that anything a Sidewinder hits is a bonus. Occasionally, I've found it useful to have them fire at the maximum 10nm, just to make enemy aircraft evade ...

In my case, either 50% or, in the case of Phoenixes, 30nm.

If the Soviets fire first, I manually Burner away having Unassigned from any Mission and set Ignore Plotted Course to No. They usually miss under those circumstances, whereupon I return to the attack. It was hard to do this in the last ...

Though it has a few silly features to create some ‘action’, the opening scenario of Desert Storm is primarily about logistics. The player has to transport a variety of aircraft to Saudi Arabia and Incirlik airbase in SE Turkey, thereby establishing the basis for the upcoming air war against Saddam’s ...

It's been said before!. Seriously, though, try it - it works.

Glad you enjoyed it and it's up to you how you play the game, but it isn't really a legitimate win unless you play the scenario the way it was designed.

The Russian Oscar strike is, indeed, very hard to stop and I lost this one twice before realising that the best strategy is not to mount the ...

The Iceland scenarios are almost all very tough and frustrating, so don't be too hard on yourself here.

It probably wasn't the jamming that was causing your weapons to miss - they're just not very accurate. Even a Phoenix really needs to be fired at 30nm or less to stand a decent chance because, as ...

Sounds like a way of fixing the underwater bug. However, I had no trouble hitting the piers with AGM-84s. On the other hand (and this was the problem), there just doesn't seem to be a way of using buddy illumination weapons reliably. When they did work in this playthrough, it was when I ordered the ...

Bainbridge might struggle to reach the assembly area due to time constraints, but should survive. She's very useful for dealing with the Algerian MiG-29s, but needs to watch-out for submarines.

Not sure about the multiple tanker situation. I never use missions for tankers and control them manually ...

There are a few issues here. The incident you refer to involved the Libyans catching some of my fighters refuelling. In this case, I altered the tankers' and fighters' Doctrine to Never for refuelling, which enabled the former to get away. This should still work.

When I played this, the rules of in ...

Situation

The Roosevelt and Enterprise CVBGs (TF20.1) aim to interdict Soviet command and communications infrastructure in Norway. It transpired that the Hammer strikes hit a decoy instead of the Archangel Corps HQ, while Anvil damaged, but did not destroy the IADS. The Soviets have been using ...

Thanks for the advice. I'd heard that there were some desperately-difficult scenarios in Shifting Sands. Then again, I'd wondered how interested anyone would be in Desert Storm which, on the face of it, lacks charisma compared to other DLCs.

Yeah, I could have made more use of my fighters as you ...