"Power Cut"

Game 8

Deployment: Long-Edges

Mission: Strike (Power plant)

Points Value: 200pts

Iranian Forces (Attacker)

--F-5E Tiger II

-Veteran Pilot (Arzou Hijazi)

-x2 AIM-9P Sidewinder

-x12 Bombs

--F-5E Tiger II

-Veteran Pilot (Morteza Ahadi)

-x2 AIM-9P Sidewinder

-x12 Bombs

--F-5E Tiger II

-Competant Pilot (Zahra Ghorbani)

-x2 AIM-9P Sidewinder

-x12 Bombs

The Plan

Keeping it simple, all three F-5's arrive on turn one, altitude 4. They will head at top speed to the power station and conduct their bombing run. Depending on situation, they may engage in air-to-air combat before RTB.

Iraqi Forces (Defender)

--MiG-21MF

-Average Pilot (Fath Zogby)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-21MF

-Average Pilot (Abbas Isa)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-21MF

-Average Pilot (Salih Nazari)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-21MF

-Average Pilot (Dhari Madi)

-x2 R-60

--x2 KS-19 (Heavy AAA)

--x2 Bofors L70 (Medium AAA)

--x3 S-60 (Medium AAA)

The Plan

The MiG's will come on in two waves, two will arrive on turn one at altitude 5 . I'm hoping that their presence will disrupt the Iranian aircraft from the start.

The other two MiG's will arrive at altitude 4 on turn 3.

Set up

TURN 1

The Iranian F-5's speed across the sky towards the powerstation, as soon as they are able they drop their combined payload of 36 Bombs. Two thirds strike home, the others overshoot blowing great gouts of sand into the air.

Two MiGs open their afterburners to intercept the F-5's as the KS-19's open fire.

TURN 2

The two Fighter Groups pass, the F-5's perform an Immelmann manouver while the MiGs make a tight turn and start diving.

The KS-19's continue to fire but the F-5's had climbed out of their range.

TURN 3

Two more Iraqi MiG's arrive.

Ahadi and Hijazi follow the two original MiGs, and both get missile lock, Hijazi fires a sidewinder but Ahadi's missile fails to luanch.

Both MiG's bank round hard.

Ghorbani turned his F-5 off in the opposite direction to the other two, the two new MiGs adjusted their heading for him.

TURN 4

Little happens as both Forces manouver for an advantage.

TURN 5

Hijazi and Ahadi turn into the MiGs tails and aquire missile locks, once again Ahadi's missile fails to luanch, Hijazi sends one streaking into a MiG.

Nazari sends his MiG into a steep dive to avoid the missile, although it works his aircraft takes a number of shrapnel hits damaging it.

TURN 6

Ghorbani dives down on the damaged MiG and opens up with his cannons, Nazari hits the airbrakes causing the stream of 20mm rounds to miss.

TURN 7

With fuel levels getting low the Iranian F-5's head for home.

Aftermath

The F-5's achieved their objective, pretty much levelling the power plant (24 bomb hits). They also done a pretty good job of fighting the MiG's.

Although the Iraqi MiGs caused little damage they played it safe and minimised damage to their planes.

The KS-19 Heavy AAA never stopped firing but didn't score any hits, the Medium AAA never fired as the Iranian aircraft remained too high and out of their range.

Iraq

Ramzy Hantous = Seriously Wounded

Adeep Cridi = KIA

Mohammed Ali = KIA

Siham Fayed = POW

-10% MiG-21MF Damaged (1 Turn)

-10% F-1 Mirage Damaged (2 Turns)

-10% SU-20 Damaged (5 Turns)

-30% pts to Su-20

-15% pts to Tu-16

-30% pts to MiG-21MF

-10% pts to MiG-23MLA

-10% pts to MiG-23BN

Iran

Omid Mansouri = Seriously Wounded

Alireza Khalili = KIA

Aman Mir = KIA

Mehri Seyed = POW

-30% pts to F-5 Tiger II

-10% pts to AH-1 Cobra

-20% pts Hawk PAR Radar

-5% pts Medium AAA

-15%pts ADS-4 Radar

-5%pts to Hawk SAM