Brother Against Brother [In Progress]
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:37 pm
Bear with me, I haven't written up anything like this before... so it'll probably end up being overly verbose...
So I basically completed the training tutorial scenarios with acceptable figures and decided it was time to do something a bit more involved-- I intentionally picked a scenario with low complexity and low difficulty as I am still learning how to play and didn't want to be overwhelmed. The scenario I chose to start out on is Brother Against Brother, which regards a "fictional heh-heh" confrontation between Venezuela and Colombia.
Briefing
To all Cmdrs
The situation with Venezuela is deteriorating faster than expected, according to HUMINT the rebels who attacked last week one of our barracks are camped in Venezuelan territory, Government of Venezuela name them politic refugees. An ultimatum has been issued by our ambassador in Caracas.
An operation to attack its camp is underway; await further others.
To CACOM 1: Enlist all fighters to provide with air superiority over the operations area.
To GACAS: All tactical bombers available will be fuelled and armed to attack the rebel base.
All naval units will sail immediately to ARC Bolívar.
0500 Local
Looks like I have a couple of Naval units, including a rickety diesel-electric submarine, and a maritime patrol aircraft. The maritime patrol aircraft is immediately assigned a surface search pattern around the area of my surface vessels. The surface vessels themselves have been ordered to return to ARC Bolivar and are cruising in that general direction.
Air wise, it appears we have an air search radar, which is immediately turned on- It is located low [2000'] and on the west side of the very tall mountains, so it will be of very limited use. Airbase CACOM has an assortment of Python armed Kfir C.7s and airbase GACAS has a half a dozen OV-10D Broncos mostly armed with Rockets-- and as yet unavailable.
As previously stated there is a high mountain range along the Venezuela border behind which I can hide my aircraft-- I will have to stay below the mountain ridges as much as possible, as my air superiority aircraft have only short range infra-red guided missiles-- so unless Venezuela only has the same, which some part of me doubts, I will be at a serious disadvantage in anything resembling a BVR engagement.
Approximately 510NM to the NE of CACOM is a hostile airfield at Teniente Luis del Valle.
Approximately 120NM to the NE of CACOM, on the east side of the mountain range are predefined rally points along the Venezuelan border. I can only assume for the time being it will be at or very close to the rebel camp engagement area.
0507 Local
Unknown surface contact SKUNK #10 detected approximately 35nm to the NE of my maritime patrol aircraft, it has been tasked with further investigation. Thick clouds cover the entirety of the scenario, so the maritime patrol aircraft has been ordered down to FL05.
FEATURE SUGGESTION:
With thick clouds and weather it would be nice to have some level of ATIS information for the engagement area, cloud bottoms and tops specifically. I'm not sure of the exact mechanics, but I would figure IR seekers suffer in the thick cloud cover.
0515 Local
I've been scouting the mountain range for low altitude passage ways through the very high mountain range located to the north-east of CACOM.
SKUNK #10 positively identified as a neutral surface-- some jerk in his yacht wasting my time... returning to maritime patrol pattern.
0530 Local
Tasking message received.
A specops group has been assigned to my command to cross the border and engage rebels. CACOM fighters are ordered to cover the assault with GACAS strike aircraft providing CAS to the SpecOps team.
Hostile submarine is also known to be operating in the area of my surface units along with a small flotilla of hostile surface ships in a joint exercise with the Cuban Navy. I have been tasked with locating and destroying both.
The approach to the rebel camp through the mountains will have to be re-scouted, the existing one is too far off to the south, making fuel a concern.
I have opted to wait another half an hour for the remainder of my air superiority fighters to be readied before launching them on sorties-- I am really concerned about their limited engagement range and want numerical superiority because of that.
0550 Local
Javier in the maritime patrol aircraft picks up radar emissions of an Unknown aircraft some estimated 65nm NE of SpecOps Coy. I can only assume it is hostile but will not designate it as so until more is known about it.
Unknown aircraft determined to be using AN/APG-66, now assumed a hostile F-16 and marked accordingly.
New unknown aircraft contact approximately 30nm NE of Coy detected using Slot Back [N-001VEP Mech], assumed hostile Su-30MK2 Flanker C.
The F16 appears per the database to be less of an air threat, because it doesn't look like the U.S. exported Aim-7/Aim-120 and it is probably being used in a ground attack role... the only A/A weapons it can field from the looks of it are its cannon and Python-4 missiles.
The SU30 is a real threat, carrying shiny new R-77 AMRAAMSKI missiles with a 50nm range.
So I basically completed the training tutorial scenarios with acceptable figures and decided it was time to do something a bit more involved-- I intentionally picked a scenario with low complexity and low difficulty as I am still learning how to play and didn't want to be overwhelmed. The scenario I chose to start out on is Brother Against Brother, which regards a "fictional heh-heh" confrontation between Venezuela and Colombia.
Briefing
To all Cmdrs
The situation with Venezuela is deteriorating faster than expected, according to HUMINT the rebels who attacked last week one of our barracks are camped in Venezuelan territory, Government of Venezuela name them politic refugees. An ultimatum has been issued by our ambassador in Caracas.
An operation to attack its camp is underway; await further others.
To CACOM 1: Enlist all fighters to provide with air superiority over the operations area.
To GACAS: All tactical bombers available will be fuelled and armed to attack the rebel base.
All naval units will sail immediately to ARC Bolívar.
0500 Local
Looks like I have a couple of Naval units, including a rickety diesel-electric submarine, and a maritime patrol aircraft. The maritime patrol aircraft is immediately assigned a surface search pattern around the area of my surface vessels. The surface vessels themselves have been ordered to return to ARC Bolivar and are cruising in that general direction.
Air wise, it appears we have an air search radar, which is immediately turned on- It is located low [2000'] and on the west side of the very tall mountains, so it will be of very limited use. Airbase CACOM has an assortment of Python armed Kfir C.7s and airbase GACAS has a half a dozen OV-10D Broncos mostly armed with Rockets-- and as yet unavailable.
As previously stated there is a high mountain range along the Venezuela border behind which I can hide my aircraft-- I will have to stay below the mountain ridges as much as possible, as my air superiority aircraft have only short range infra-red guided missiles-- so unless Venezuela only has the same, which some part of me doubts, I will be at a serious disadvantage in anything resembling a BVR engagement.
Approximately 510NM to the NE of CACOM is a hostile airfield at Teniente Luis del Valle.
Approximately 120NM to the NE of CACOM, on the east side of the mountain range are predefined rally points along the Venezuelan border. I can only assume for the time being it will be at or very close to the rebel camp engagement area.
0507 Local
Unknown surface contact SKUNK #10 detected approximately 35nm to the NE of my maritime patrol aircraft, it has been tasked with further investigation. Thick clouds cover the entirety of the scenario, so the maritime patrol aircraft has been ordered down to FL05.
FEATURE SUGGESTION:
With thick clouds and weather it would be nice to have some level of ATIS information for the engagement area, cloud bottoms and tops specifically. I'm not sure of the exact mechanics, but I would figure IR seekers suffer in the thick cloud cover.
0515 Local
I've been scouting the mountain range for low altitude passage ways through the very high mountain range located to the north-east of CACOM.
SKUNK #10 positively identified as a neutral surface-- some jerk in his yacht wasting my time... returning to maritime patrol pattern.
0530 Local
Tasking message received.
A specops group has been assigned to my command to cross the border and engage rebels. CACOM fighters are ordered to cover the assault with GACAS strike aircraft providing CAS to the SpecOps team.
Hostile submarine is also known to be operating in the area of my surface units along with a small flotilla of hostile surface ships in a joint exercise with the Cuban Navy. I have been tasked with locating and destroying both.
The approach to the rebel camp through the mountains will have to be re-scouted, the existing one is too far off to the south, making fuel a concern.
I have opted to wait another half an hour for the remainder of my air superiority fighters to be readied before launching them on sorties-- I am really concerned about their limited engagement range and want numerical superiority because of that.
0550 Local
Javier in the maritime patrol aircraft picks up radar emissions of an Unknown aircraft some estimated 65nm NE of SpecOps Coy. I can only assume it is hostile but will not designate it as so until more is known about it.
Unknown aircraft determined to be using AN/APG-66, now assumed a hostile F-16 and marked accordingly.
New unknown aircraft contact approximately 30nm NE of Coy detected using Slot Back [N-001VEP Mech], assumed hostile Su-30MK2 Flanker C.
The F16 appears per the database to be less of an air threat, because it doesn't look like the U.S. exported Aim-7/Aim-120 and it is probably being used in a ground attack role... the only A/A weapons it can field from the looks of it are its cannon and Python-4 missiles.
The SU30 is a real threat, carrying shiny new R-77 AMRAAMSKI missiles with a 50nm range.