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This morning I played Matrix Siege against Rene Haar.
Matrix Siege is an old Harpoon Classic scene converted to ANW/PlayersDB by Herman Hum. It covers an exercise in the Kattegat between two US warships and about 15 European light frigates and fast attack craft.
Rene chose to play Europe and I played the US.
I launched my Cobra gunship to start recon took both ships out of the formation and moved them independently south at speeds I hoped would make them mistaken for neutrals.
Rene switched on the radars on his Norwegian patrol boats and although they were in Harpoon range, I decided to ignore them as I figured as I moved south I would never come in range of the Norwegian SSMs.
The Cobra worked south and found a pair of enemy FFLs. As I apprached to attack Cobra was shot down! Further Recon would need to be done by my ASW helo.
With a perfect solution on two FFLs I fired 6 harpoons and soon both ships were 'presumed sunk'
When the ASW helo started picking up over 10 new fast targets I realised I had wasted harpoons on ships without SSMs. From now on I used the harpoons only for the missile boats, igoring the Parchims and other light craft.
Out of harpoons I kept coming south and brought my ships back in formation for needed missile defence.
Rene must not have had a good solution, as my FFG got to 20nm and destroyed a Norwegian missile boat with SM-2s SAMs!
Then Rene fired 10 Exocets from his remaining two missile boats. All were shot down. Their launchers soon joint them in the deep - again using SM-2s.
Now I was in my assigned patrol zone and my 127mm gun made short work of the heavy but poorly armed Parchims. In the end I destroyed 9 ships, reached my objective and lost one helo.
