ORIGINAL: RobotCriminal
Ok been playing this off and on (basically a few hours here and there after work) for like a week now, very fun but very tough. Near the end of it I think, convoy passing around the tip of the straights.
Best decision I made by far I think was to detach the Olympia (SSN) early on and send it up the straights to help "make a hole" for the convoy once the shooting started. She was worth her weight in gold combined with the fixed wing ASW assets I had in terms of finding/sinking the Iranian sub force, to the point where she has one torpedo left (used some of them on the patrol craft that spawn in which was a mistake imo in retrospect, should have saved them for ASW).
Only thing I wish is that whoever was in command of this cluster would have detached a Tico as an escort as well. Seems there are two of them and would have made a WAY better decision/easier time of it once the shooting started rather then a handful of worthless LCS and a single DDG with a land attack loadout and a handful of point defense SAMS. I feel like someone would have lost their job over that one, maybe just me [:'(].
Its fun as it is (assuming you want it to be really hard and require a lot of EMCON to be successful), but have you considered removing one of the CGs from the CVBG and adding it to the escort group? Or maybe just reconfig the escorting DDG to a 72 SM-2 AAW loadout instead of land attack? As it is I have more tomahawks then I really need or know what to do with but would give my left arm for more sam coverage. Perhaps this is intended, need to play it to the end I guess [;)]
Side note: did you intend for the Djibouti F-18D to be such an old model? The version of the AIM-120 they carry would be pretty old by 2016 standards, and doesn't have nearly the range of the C-7 versions carried by the carrier hornets.
I agree with the DDG AAW loadout request, almost depleted my SAM magazines after the first surprise ASM salvo. Perhaps is intented, and you have to work carefuly to be outside enemy radar coverage at all times (which for the moment being I've been able to do - barely!), otherwise the Iranians have the firepower to easily overwhelm the single Burke.
Very nice scenario, I loved the way the successive messages kept building tension [:D]
We'll see if I'm able of finishing the scenario, though, keep receiveing OutOfMemory error messages [:@][:@]