Penetrating the Blockade 2027

[Transient]

Hi All, have a new scenario for playtesting.

China has declared a de facto blockade of Taiwan.

A week earlier, the 3rd MLR successfully interdicted some PLAN forces heading to waters off east Taiwan, however it is expected that a good number of PLAN navy sub surface assets leaked through, while other PLAN assets had already moved past the 1st Island Chain before the blockade was announced.

The PLAN Shandong CSG is presumed to be somewhere in the Western Pacific. It is expected to be tasked with disrupting allied forces resupply efforts to Taiwan and Allied forces.

USN CSGs have been caught off guard and damaged in earlier engagements.

Currently only the Queen Elizabeth CSG is available, together with some USN vessels and some assets at Guam.

Your orders are simple:
1. Protect the convoy and deliver them to Hualien port.
2. Introduce the Shandong CSG to the sea bottom.

Note: This is a follow on scenario to my earlier scenario, Tighten the Straitjacket 2027.
Unfortunately, it is a 1 week scenario due to the distances involved. Play it at 1 flame speed.

Penetrating the Blockade 2027.zip

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[BobTank63]

"Scenario is 1 week" "Numerous sub-surface assets"

Oh no, it's Damn the Torpedoes all over again

Jokes aside I look forward to trying both scenarios.

[Transient]

Thanks!

Pls note that in this scenario the CAMM SAM is not capable against some high speed Chinese AShM, due to DB499 issue.

I think when DB500 comes out the issue will be rectified.

[Selchu]

So I will try and write what an how I'm doing on this scenario. This may require several posts but I beg peoples forbearance.

Spoilers below:












So, like Snowman and the Bandit, This convoy has a long way to go. Both groups of ships set off heading generally west with the QE CSG being told top go all ahead full. A deck bound CAP is set and ASW patrols are set up using helicopters and the MPA on Guam. The first shock is that an enemy sub is close by and has launched a missile attack on Guam but this is quickly defeated with no damage.
HMS Astute has been ordered to head west as deep as possible and at flank speed. I'll take the chance of her running into a stray sub but I desperately need her closing the gap with the enemy CSG.
There is a Chinese CSG out there and we need to hit them. Through the use of the TACMOR radar we can see a group of tightly packed ships SE of Taiwan so I send the QE group to a rough holding position further SE/E of those. In the meantime all 3 drones are tasked from Guam to a large patrol area. This is later refined and 1 is sent further west towards the Philippines and is able to tie down the enemy CSG precise location. During this time several enemy drones have been shot down by F35s from the QE.
With the enemy fleet located I launch my B1s on a deep strike. Their mission is to hit the enemy fleet and cause what damage they can. The plan is to then have them RTB and send them back in after a reload with the F35s and hit the enemy fleet together. During this time I will take advantage of the F35 low radar return to try and pick off enemy fighters and reduce their number.
6 days 6 hours to go.

[Transient]

Nice! Looking forward to your updates!

[Selchu]

The B1 strike was a reasonable success. That I know of, they have sank 1 Type 052DDG and taken a chunk out of 1 other. The entire fleet now appears to be moving very slowly. The information was gained by sending 1 of the drones to it's max radar range before I had to race it away when a couple of J15s decided to come looking for it.
With this stroke of luck I have changed the Fleet AIR ARM (FFA) around slightly. I now have 6 F35s set with full external AAW loads and 6 with Meteor only loads. The meteor only aircraft are having good success in creeping in close and shooting down J15s to thin out the Chinese CAP and any other aircraft they can find (how many cubs do they have?)
The other 8 F35s have reloaded with Storm Shadows and will make a strike at the fleet soon to further thin the field.
As we are now getting well away from Guam I have also got AAR available to keep people in the air.
5 days, 16 hours to go.

[Selchu]

Idiot - Note to self...............Storm Shadow is not an anti ship missile

[Selchu]

The naval strike had a good first attack with Spear missiles. The Chinese frigate and another DDG are sent to the bottom. This leave me with 2 CGs and 1 DDG to deal with. But the DDG is falling farther and farther behind. With her engines damaged she won't be able to stop the next attacks.
Chinese air cover is also gone now. No More J15s have risen to intercept my fighters.
After 6 hours the SPEAR aircraft are sent in but by now the Chinese group is ready and the 2 CGs manage to defeat all 64 of the SPEAR missiles aimed at them. Just as the Chinese commander breathed a sign of relief his radar officer reported another incoming wave of missiles. The B1s being slightly late fire their LRASMs and the 2 CGs take heavy damage and then sink. The orders the ship to sail on in the company of her 2 tenders. He knows what awaits him upon his return.
The F35s are being reloaded. This time just 2 of them with Spear missiles and the others with Brimstone missiles. Supplies of all missiles are starting to run out on Queenie.
With constant drone coverage of the Chinese CSG a moment of panic arrives as fighters are detected but not outbound. Are they reinforcements flying in? No one knows but the F35s are scrambled and promptly shootdown another 4 aircraft as they enter the landing pattern.
Time has passed and the F35s once again launch another strike. The Spear equipped aircraft make for the DDG and the Brimstones head for Shandong herself.
The DDG puts up a fight with her last missiles but they won't stop all the Spears and she soon sinks. On Shandong fire rages but the Brimstones just didn't have the power needed to sink her. She'll live on until the fighters are rearmed.
4 days 11 hours to go