The only comment I can make is that the NATO surface group seem to be under escorted ...... and it is kind of aggravating that they’ve been at war for three weeks and there are almost no ready aircraft when I try to play this thing .... for blue there really aren’t very many strike and fighter aircraft at all ...
So a couple of points on this as to why and where this can go...
1. I did remove most of the Tomahawks on the three Burkes and load them out as Air Defense Vessels. Between the three of them there are only 24 Tomahawks, they are SAM heavy.
2. Two complaints I get about my scenarios are TOO many units and you chose the load outs for me. So as much as possible I try to set things up so the player has the opportunity to choose their own load outs for anything under six (6) hours and only provide missions as necessary (AAW-CAP, Helio ASW if in a hot environment). Can't seem to win here, one person says we've been at war for three weeks, why aren't the load outs and CAP set for me? and the other says, you loaded out AMRAAMS and I wanted Sidewinders on my, (
place your favorite aircraft here).
3. Given the fighting on NATOs Front in the Baltics, Kaliningrad and Poland, yeah, just about every strike fighter/Multirole NATO has is going there! It's pretty much the Norwegian, Sweds and Finns on their own. BTW I actually resurrected Swedish and Finnish aircraft/radars that would have been destroyed in the opening scenario (Midnight Sun). I'm still thinking about cutting them back as they just would have been destroyed and un-salvageable after three weeks on the front lines against Russia.
So vessels, I just did what I did to alleviate the arguments that there were too many NATO vessels in Arctic Tsunami, I have no issues adding more escorts OR an additional NATO SAG.
Give me some ideas what you would like to see? I'm thinking a mixed group, like the Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) so it's not all USN! Was going to task that group to the Baltic, but something along those lines????
Back on my soap box of game scenario vs. simulation. While I try to balance the scenarios as much as possible I do also tend heavily toward simulation and no commander ever has everything they want. So trying to keep it in the larger picture of the war and world situation and also try to balance a scenario. That's why the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is not present, with the loss of the dry dock PD-50 and December fire, IMHO, she is done.
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