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Hey guys, so I finally finished something today.

Heightened political tensions between USA and Qatar erupted into full scale hostilities. Lone USS Zumwalt DDG operating in the Persian Gulf is tasked with dangerous mission. Trapped US embassy personnel stationed at Qatar capital city Doha needs to be evacuated.

You are commander of USS Zumwalt.

Other notes:

Scenario is rather randomized and should have good replayabilty, also several strategies might work, it's up to you how you manage to evacuate the US embassy. Use your TLAMs & RIMs sparingly. Check out 155mm/52 AGS LRLAP, it might be useful [;)] MH-60R is loaded out with Hellfires. Two fire scouts are available and need to be used to achieve some sort of success.

Another note, you don't receive any extra points for destroying enemy units. You only get points if you finish your mission (evacuation).

Final note: I gave the scenario the highest possible difficulty rating and i believe that there's a reason for it [8D]

Any comments, results, suggestions are as always welcome. [8D]

Nice one, i like small scenarios like that, a bit easy though.

I'am quite surprised by the power of the missile boats ECM, and for some reason my hellfires can't engage those. I never found the reason for the highest possible difficulty rating [8D]

SIDE: Qatar

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LOSSES:
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2x Sea King Commando Mk3
4x Sea King Commando Mk3
8x Mirage 2000-5
1x Radar (Generic 2D Air Search Radar [Long-Range])
1x Single-Unit Airfield (2x 4000m+ Runways)
3x Roland 2


EXPENDITURES:
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10x Generic Chaff Salvo [4x Cartridges]
2x AM.39 Exocet Blk I
2x Roland 2



SIDE: US Navy
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LOSSES:
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1x MQ-8C Fire-X UAV [Bell 407 Mod]


EXPENDITURES:
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22x RIM-174A ERAM SM-6MR Blk I
2x RIM-162A ESSM
122x 155mm/52 AGS LRLAP

Tried it twice. Lost both times, although the second time I had knocked out the Qatari air defense and completed the rescue...then those missile boats sank my destroyer! They definitely have some effective jammers...or maybe it is simply that the number of them on all at once is really confusing to the sensors. And the weather certainly does not help.

As is, the scenario is interesting and challenging. I'm not spotting any errors in things like Events.

One suggestion...it might be more plausible to have a couple of aircraft helping out. Especially considering the threat of the missile boats, I would think the Navy would want to have more eyeballs searching the Gulf. And an aircraft could use active radars, etc. without automatically giving away the Zumwalt's position. Obviously, the idea is that the Zumwalt is pretty much on her own, but maybe one or two patrol aircraft, long range drones, etc. would be worth considering.

Overall, it's a nice, challenging scenario. Please write more!

Thanks for comments so far guys.

I've spotted some problematic points already. Digging into the UAVs, i should have probably used Fire Scout 8B instead of 8C as I've figured that 8C was more meant as unmanned resupply A/C (hence the cargo loadouts).

I was thinking about adding one UAV (probably MQ-4C Triton) as a support unit. P8-A with SLAM-ER loadout would be another possibility. I will test and decide [8D]

The P-8 would definitely help. The Zumwalt doesn't really have much in the way of standoff weapons against other ships. Park her 50 miles offshore and she can put some serious hurt on anything you can find and get coordinates for, but against ships she's actually quite vulnerable. (I wonder why the AGS cannot target ships. It can target mobile units on the ground. Hmmmm.....)

I liked that scenario. I was a little disappointed with the ability of the USS Zumwalt to face the other ships on mano a mano (hand to hand combat). A billion dollar ship without punch to go up against some Arab punks is not a good idea for the US taxpayers.

The Ninja ship concept is interesting.

But...

Warships were made to trample over the others. Not to vanish like fireflys in the radars.

Leave that to the planes [:D]

Thanks for this very interesting scenario. I liked it.
I managed to do it at the second try but I was very surprised by the powerful jamming of Qatar units. Did you use some special rule or setup? One of the most advanced USN ships and helicopter (SH60R) jammed by small PTM and unable to lock on them and even defend by Exocets sound unrealistic. What do you think?

Francesco

Is this ready for release?