Old Grudges Never Die

[Eboreg]

So I had a lot of disposable money lying around after Christmas and decided to get a good share of LIVE scenarios that I had passed over earlier. The first one is "Old Grudges Never Die" and the first thing playing this scenario informed me of was the need for a WCS doctrine for guided missiles. I had to edit the scenario to make sure none of the sides fired at any guided weapons in order to not provoke hostilities too early. My first (two) playthrough(s) were as Turkey and I, quite frankly, did not have a lot resources. I wanted to bomb some Kurds but I just didn't have any valid reconnaissance assets in order to do so. I decided to settle for bombing the ISIS structures near my border with dumb bombs and a smattering of stand-off munitions. I also re-armed my F-16s to carry more AMRAAM heavy loadouts while still allowing the ones that were ready to take off in order to defend friendly rebels. They did so by buzzing Russian attack helicopters and strike jets in order to make sure they were more worried about their own hides than providing CAS for the Kurds.

After a while, I started getting indications of Russian cruise missiles flying over Turkish airspace but ignored them for the time being. That is... until the Turkish government started flying off the handle about this. While negotiations were inevitably breaking down, I decided to intercept the Russian cruise missiles by routing my Vipers to the north of their patrol zone and manually allocating AMRAAMs to the cruise missiles they got in range of. Pretty soon, the government gave me clearance to open fire on the Russians, which was just as well because I was bringing my submarine to the Moskva that the Russians had in the area, you know, just in case I had to shock and awe the Russians into submission. I brought my remaining Vipers that still had AMRAAMs into range of Russian SAMs and managed to shoot down some of their reconnaissance assets including a UAV while the Coalition joined in the shooting. I was getting a little worried because a Russian helicopter was hovering over my submarine but the Coalition managed to shoot it down. In hindsight, sending in the Vipers was probably a bad idea when the Russians had a f'king S-400 in the area, even if it didn't have ARH missiles. I only lost 6 Vipers to this area.

Meantime, my frigate managed to sink a Russian Buyan with 4 Harpoons and my submarine shot 2 Harpoons at the Moskva from point-blank range crippling it. I then decided to follow up with 2 Tigerfishes but overestimated the damage that the Moskva had suffered and it managed to get away. Swearing under my breath, I then decided to send 4 Phantoms at it each armed with glide bombs but that didn't work out to well. Finally, I managed to let loose on the Moskva from even closer with my submarine and finally managed to sink it causing the international community to immediately step in and ask for a truce. While I lost more fighters thanks to a slight rush of s*** to the brain, the Russians lost quite a few High-Value Assets and even two ships making this a sound Turkish victory. I ended with a Triumph and a score of 166 points.

SIDE: Russia
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LOSSES:
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1x Il-20M Coot A
1x Il-38N May
1x Ka-27PL Helix A
1x Mi-24P Hind F
1x Mi-28N Havoc
1x Searcher II [Forpost] UAV
3x Su-30SM Flanker G
1x Tu-214R
1x MRK Buyan Mod [Pr.21631 Buyan-M]
1x RKR Moskva [Pr.1164 Atlant, Ex-Slava]


EXPENDITURES:
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18x RGB-NM-1 [Passive Omni]
1x AS-10 Karen [Kh-25L]
63x SA-21a Growler [48N6DM]
15x 100mm/59 A-190 Frag
3x AK-630M 30mm/65 Twin Gatling Burst [800 rnds]
8x PK-10 Chaff [SR-50]
6x SA-N-4b Gecko [9M33M3]
4x AK-130 130mm/54 Twin Frag Burst [2 rnds]
12x AK-630M 30mm/65 Gatling Burst [400 rnds]
2x PK-2 Chaff [TSP-47]
64x SA-N-6a Grumble [5R55RM]
2x Generic Flare Salvo [4x Cartridges, Single Spectral]
9x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges]
5x AA-10 Alamo A [R-27R, MR SARH]
4x AA-10 Alamo C [R-27ER, LR SARH]



SIDE: Turkey
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LOSSES:
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6x F-16CG Blk 40 Falcon [Peace Onyx I]


EXPENDITURES:
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6x AGM-142F Popeye IIR [Unitary]
24x Mk82 500lb LDGP
10x 20mm/85 M61A1 Vulcan Burst [100 rnds]
4x Generic Flare Salvo [3x Cartridges, Single Spectral]
16x MIM-23P I-HAWK
16x AIM-120B AMRAAM
4x RGM-84G Harpoon ICR
2x UGM-84D Harpoon IC
4x Mk24 Tigerfish Mod 2
9x Generic Chaff Salvo [5x Cartridges]



SIDE: Syria
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LOSSES:
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2x MiG-23ML Flogger G


EXPENDITURES:
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80x OFAB-100-120 Frag
16x FAB-250M-54 GPB
36x SA-5c Gammon [5V28M5]



SIDE: US
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LOSSES:
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EXPENDITURES:
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4x AN/SSQ-53F DIFAR
8x GBU-54(V)1/B LJDAM [Mk82]
2x AGM-65K Maverick IR
16x GBU-24C/B Paveway III LGB [BLU-116/B]
1x AN/SSQ-62E DICASS
2x AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM P3I.3



SIDE: Coalition
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LOSSES:
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1x Rafale M
6x Tornado GR.4A


EXPENDITURES:
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4x SSQ-963D CAMBS VI
7x TSM 8062 DIFAR
7x TSM 8050B Active RO
5x SSQ-926 ALFEA
4x GBU-49/B Paveway II GPS/LGB [Mk82]
8x SBU-54 AASM/M [Hammer, Mk82, GPS + IIR]
8x GBU-54(V)1/B LJDAM [Mk82]
1x Paveway IV [Mk82]
5x MICA EM
4x MICA IR
11x Generic Chaff Salvo [8x Cartridges]
2x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges]
8x AIM-120C-5 AMRAAM P3I.2
2x Spearfish Mod 0



SIDE: Civilian
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LOSSES:
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EXPENDITURES:
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SIDE: Russian Strategic Forces
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LOSSES:
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EXPENDITURES:
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16x Kh-101



SIDE: ISIS
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LOSSES:
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1x Bridge (Single-lane 30 Tons)
2x Building (Barracks)
1x Building (Electric Sub Station)
3x Building (Small)
1x Structure (Oil Refinery)
20x Structure (Oil Well)
9x SA-7b Grail [9K32M Strela-2M] MANPADS [Cargo]
1x Vehicle (Truck, Armed Technical) [Cargo]
1x Vehicle (Truck, Armed Technical) [Cargo]


EXPENDITURES:
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17x SA-7b Grail [9M32M]
1x 23mm ZU-23-2 Burst [20 rnds]



SIDE: Army of Conquest
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LOSSES:
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1x Bridge (Single-lane 30 Tons)


EXPENDITURES:
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SIDE: Syrian Democratic Forces (Kurds)
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LOSSES:
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EXPENDITURES:
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SIDE: Free Syrian Army
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LOSSES:
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2x Structure (Oil Well)


EXPENDITURES:
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SIDE: Biologics
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LOSSES:
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EXPENDITURES:
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By the way, there was no way I could have saved the bridge belonging to the friendly rebels.