"Death from Above"

Game 6

Iraqi Forces attack a key town that contains a crossroads, this is essential to secure logistics for further attacks.

Deployment: Long Edges

Points Value: 300pts

Iranian Forces (Defender)

--ADS-4 Radar

--x2 Hawk PAR Radar

--x4 MIM-23

--x2 AAA Radar

--x4 Medium AAA

--x3 Heavy AAA

--Light AAA

--F-5E Tiger

-Competant Pilot (Zahra Ghorbani)

-2xAIM-9P

--F-5E Tiger

-Average pilot (Akbar Hasani)

-2xAIM-9P

--F-5E Tiger

-Average pilot (Mehri Seyed)

-2xAIM-9P

--AH-1J Cobra

-Competant Pilot (Aman Mir)

-x4 TOW Missiles

--AH-1J Cobra

-Competant Pilot (Omid Mansouri)

-x2 Rocket pods

--Infantry Units: 5

--Armour Units: 6 (3xM113, 3xM60A3)

--Mobile AA Units: 4 (2xZSU-57-2, 2xZSU-23-4)

The Plan

The Cobra's will arrive on turn 2 at altitude 1, the Tigers will arrive at altitude 4 on turn 3 and will be able to loiter around provide air covour/strafing runs for the rest of the game.

Iraqi Forces (Attacker)

--SU-20

-Average pilot (Ali Kazem)

-2xKh-28

-8 Bombs

--SU-20

-Average pilot (Mohammed Ali)

-2xKh-28

-8 Bombs

--MiG-23BN

-Average Pilot (Musah Taha)

-8 Bombs

--MiG-23BN

-Average Pilot (Siham Fayed)

-8 Bombs

--Mirage F-1EQ

-Competant Pilot (Bilal Badin)

-2xR.550

--Mirage F-1EQ

-Competant Pilot (Iman Radi)

-2xR.550

--Mi-25 Hind

-Average pilot (Abdul Najm)

-2xRocket pods

--Infantry Units: 8

--Armour Units: 4 (4xT-55)

--Mobile AA Units: 3 (ZSU-23-4, ZSU-57-2, SA-8 Gecko)

The Plan

The MiG-23's will arrive on turn 1 at altitude 2, hopefully their ECM can provide enough survivability for them to strike some AA systems.

Turn 3 the SU-20's will arrive at altitude 2, plus both hinds at altitude 1 and the Mirages at Altitude 4.

Set up

Iranian set up

Iraqi set up

TURN 1

The Iraqi MiG-23's arrive, both drop two Bombs, and reduce an M60 Tank and a AAA guidance Radar to scrap.

The ground forces firefight rages, the Iraqis loose two Infantry Squads and two tanks while the Iranians loose one Infantry squad, one tank and one M113. Another M113 has its weapons disabled.

An Iranian ZSU-57-2 opens up on the MiGs but does little.

TURN 2

The Iranian Cobra Gunships arrive,

One of the Cobras blows an Iraqi tank apart with a rocket salvo, the other aquire a lock on the SA-8 Gecko and let's a TOW loose.

The MiGs each let another two Bombs drop, a Shilka and the Early warning Radar are destroyed.

Iranian fire destroys another Iraqi squad and the last tank, Iraqi return fire suppresses a few Iranian Squads.

With a feat of outstanding gunnery, the Iraqi Shilka hits the TOW armed Cobra damaging it, and the ZSU-57-2 follows up hitting the other Cobra blowing it pieces in a hail of autocannon fire, the wreck crashes into the ground and its pilot crawl out severely Wounded.

AAA fire from the Iranian lines fills the sky around the MiGs, one is clipped but no damaged is caused.

The Hawk SAMs attempt to lock the MiGs but cannot defeat their ECM.

The Gecko luanches a missile at the Cobra.

TURN 3

Everything else turns up!

The SA-8 missile hits the Cobra turning it into a fireball and killing the pilot, in turn the TOW hits the Gecko destroying it.

The F-5Tigers drop altitude a little as the Mirages perform an Immelmann maneuver.

The SU-20's destroy an M60 Tank and M113 with Bombs, and one of the MiGs takes out a Hawk Luancher with Bombs.

The Hind adds to the carnage with a rocket salvo that destroys a ZSU-57-2.

AAA fire continues to fill the sky, the SU-20s are missed while the MiGs and caught in a vicious cross fire, the aircraft remain in operation but both pilots are Wounded.

Hawk SAMs are luanched, one tracks the Sukhois, the second hits a MiG blowing it apart a split second before the pilot ejects.

The ground battle deteriorates fast for the Iraqis as they loose three more Squads with little effect in return.

TURN 4

The Hawk missile slams into the Sukhoi taking it down with its pilot.

The MiG-23 Flys away from the area and RTB's.

The lead F-5 locks onto the last Sukhoi and luanches a sidewinder, as the SU-20 drops a bomb on the last ZSU-57-2.

The Hind advances on the Iranian line, firing rockets and wiping out an Iranian squad.

Both Mirages perform a Split-S.

The Iraqi Sparka continues with its pin point accuracy hitting an F-5 and wounding the pilot.

Iranian AAA continues with its storm of gunfire, only hitting the Hind which shrugs off the hits.

TURN 5

The sidewinder slams into the Sukhoi but he attempts a last ditch dodge, the missile detonates close and shrapnel peppers the plane destroying the avionics.

The lead F-5 fails to perform a Split-S, Lieutenant Badin lines up his Mirage on an F-5 and opens up with cannons. The 20mm round shred the F-5 as its pilot ejects

The last F-5 Banks round hard as the Hind continues its rocket attack destroying an M60 Tank.

AAA fire continues, as the Iraqi ground Forces start to retreat.

TURN 6

The Hind and Sukhoi RTB.

F-5's and Mirages maneuver to try and gain the upper hand, a Hawk SAM is luanched at a Mirage.

The Iraqi Sparka once again hits, taking an F-5 down, its pilot ejects safely only to be captured by retreating Iraqi Forces.

In turn, advancing Iranian Forces capture lieutenant Fayad.

TURN 7

The Hawk SAM hits the Mirage damaging the controls.

The Mirages and F-5 Speed past each other and the F-5 Banks round hard as the Mirages hit their afterburners and dive for the deck.

AAA fire has nothing to fire upon and the Iraqi Forces continue their retreat.

TURN 8

Iraqi Forces, both air and ground retreat from the area.

Aftermath

The Iraqi Ground Forces got hammered early on and could not put up much of a fight afterwards, the Hind even the odds a little and the air battle was pretty even.

Star of the game . . .

The Iraqi ZSU-57-2 Sparka, needing a 6 to hit, this bad-boy rolled a 6 every time!

Could have been crewed by Republican Guard.

Iraq

Ramzy Hantous = Seriously Wounded

Ali Kazem = Lightly Wounded

Adeep Cridi = KIA

Mohammed Ali = KIA

Siham Fayed = POW

-10% F-1 Mirage Damaged (3 Turns)

-10% SU-20 Damaged (6 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

 

"Helping Hind"

Game 5

An SU-7 took a chance attack run at an Iranian Radar site but was shot down, the pilot ejected and needs to be rescued.

Deployment: Short Edges

Mission: CSAR

Points Value: 100pts

Iranian Forces (Defender)

-ADS-4 Radar

-x2 Medium AAA (Oerlikon GDF)

-AAA Radar

--Bell 214

-Competant pilot (Reza Baig)

--F-4E Phantom

-Competant pilot (Aref Haj)

-x2 AIM-9P

-x6 Infantry units

-x3 M113's

-x1 ZSU-57-2

The Plan

Is to obviously chase down the pilot with ground forces, the Phantom will arrive on turn 3 at altitude 4 and provide air Superiority. The Bell 214 will also arrive on turn 3 to try and snatch the Iraqi pilot.

Iraqi Forces (Attacker)

--SA-316 Alouette III

-Competant pilot (Jamil Obaid)

--SA 342 Gazelle

-Competant pilot (Rakim Katie)

-x4 HOT Missiles

--Mi-24 Hind

-Competant pilot (Harb Anad)

-x2 Rocket Pods

--MiG-21MF

-Average pilot (Dhari Madi)

-x2 R-60

-x2 Bombs

--Downed Pilot is OK (Un-wounded)

The Plan

The MiG-21 will arrive on turn 1 at altitude 4, he will provide air cover and if the oppotunity arises, can bomb a target of oppotunity.

The Hind and Gazelle will arrive on turn 3 and start engaging ground targets, the Alouette will arrive on turn 4 to pick up the downed pilot.

Set up

TURN 1

The Iraqi MiG-21 arrives, coming in at full speed. Lieutenant Madi Spots the Iranian ground forces and dives down ready for a bombing run.

TURN 2

Madi lines up on the M113 APC and drops a bomb, he scores a direct hit and the APC goes up in a ball of fire.

TURN 3

An Iranian Bell 214 heads into the area straight for the downed pilot, The Iraqi Helicopters arrive, the Hind blows a M113 to pieces with a rocket salvo while the Gazelle destroys another M113 with a HOT missile.

The Iranian Phantom arrives on the tail of the MiG, Lieutenant Haj open up with the Phantoms Vulcan, the MiG is Shredded but Madi manages to eject.

TURN 4

The Phantom banks round hard dropping altitude, while the Iraqi Alouette nips in quickly and picks up the pilot.

The Gazelle starts heading for the Radar while the Hind takes out the ZSU-57-2 with another rocket salvo.

Madi starts to flee the area as Iranian Infantry and the Bell 214 helicopter close on his position.

TURN 5

The Alouette RTB's with the pilot, The Hind flys in under small arms fire from the Iranian Infantry and picks up Madi.

TURN 6

The Bell 214 and Hind RTB, The Gazelle closes in the Radar site and let's loose a HOT missile,

It strikes the facility blowing the Radar dome to pieces.

The Gazelle quickly speeds away from the area.

Aftermath

Two close calls there, firstly when the Bell 214 was closing in the downed pilot but managed to snatch him with the Alouette at the last second.

Secondly with Madi, the Iranian Infantry was really close but the Hind managed to grab him at the last moment.

Really enjoyed this game.

Iraq

Ramzy Hantous = Seriously Wounded

Adeep Cridi = KIA

-20% pts to Su-20

-15% pts to Tu-16

-30% pts to MiG-21MF

-10% pts to MiG-23MLA

Iran

Alireza Khalili = KIA

-10% pts to F-5 Tiger II

-15% pts Hawk PAR Radar

-5% pts Medium AAA

-10%pts ADS-4 Radar

 

"Fighting Phantoms"

Game 4

With all the recent bombing strikes against Iranian facilities, Iran has doubled its air patrols . . .

Deployment: Long Edges

Mission: CAP (Recon target: Storage Facility)

Points Value: 150pts

Iranian Forces (Attacker)

--RF-4E Phantom

-Competant pilot (Bahman Zare)

--F-4E Phantom

-Competant pilot (Giv Kiani)

-x4 AIM-9P

--F-4E Phantom

-Competant pilot (Aref Haj)

-x4 AIM-9P

The Plan

Is to not get bogged down in combat, turn 1 all aircraft will arrive at altitude 4, the F-4E Phantoms will try the protect the RF-4E Phantom allowing it to take the recon pictures and bug out ASAP.

Iraqi Forces (Defender)

--MiG-23MF

-Competant pilot (Sultan Marza)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-23MF

-Average pilot (Siham Fayad)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-23MF

-Average pilot (Musah Taha)

-x2 R-60

-x2 Medium AAA (61-K)

-SA-2 Site

-Fan Song Radar

The Plan

Hopefully the SA-2 Site can pose a hazard/threat to the Iranian aircraft, the MiG's will arrive on turn 2 at altitude 4 and try to take down the Iranian craft as fast as possible.

Set up

TURN 1

The three Phantoms arrived in formation, lieutenant Zare manages to take photos of the Iraqi facility.

TURN 2

The Iraqi MiG's arrive,

The Phantoms prepare to RTB, while the MiG's swing in on their tail, Lieutenant Fayad manages to aquire a lock on Musah Taha and luanches an R-60. The Fan-Song Radar tries to aquire a target but the Phantoms ECM defeats it.

TURN 3

The Phantoms disengage and RTB with the recon Photos.

AFTERMATH

Not much to say really, short game, the Iranians performed their mission with no losses.

Iraq

Ramzy Hantous = Seriously Wounded

Adeep Cridi = KIA

-20% pts to Su-20

-15% pts to Tu-16

-20% pts to MiG-21MF

-10% pts to MiG-23MLA

Iran

Alireza Khalili = KIA

-10% pts to F-5 Tiger II

-15% pts Hawk PAR Radar

-5% pts Medium AAA

-5%pts ADS-4 Radar

 "Tiger Scramble"

Game 3

The Iranian Air Force has planes operating from a forward airbase, to help their air assets in the area, Iraqi air force command has launched a mission to destroy the airfield.

Deployment: Long Edges

Mission: Strike (Airstrip)

Points Value: 400pts

Iranian Forces (Defender)

--F-5E Tiger II

-Average pilot (Akbar Hasani)

-x2 AIM-9P

--F-5E Tiger II

-Average pilot (Mehri Seyed)

-x2 AIM-9P

--F-4E Phantom

-Average pilot (Milad Shir)

-x2 AIM-9P

--F-4E Phantom

-Average pilot (Jafar Ali)

-x2 AIM-9P

--F-14A Tomcat

-Competant pilot (Parvis Azizi)

-x2 AIM-9P

-X2 AIM-7E-4

--F-14A Tomcat

-Competant pilot (Keyvan Bayat)

-x2 AIM-9P

-X2 AIM-7E-4

-ADS-4 Radar

-x3 Light AAA

-x2 Hawk PAR Radar

-x4 MIM-23 Hawk SAM

-x2 AAA Radar

-x3 Medium AAA

-x2 Heavy AAA

The Plan

The AAA defenses will provide decent protection, the Tomcats will arrive on turn one and can cause some concern for iraqi forces. The F-5s will start on the airfield and take off on turn two, with the Phantoms arriving later in the game.

Turn 1: Both F-14A Tomcats arrives at altitude 5

Turn 2: Both F-5E Tigers take off

Turn 6: Both Phantoms arrive at altitude 4

Iraqi Forces (Attacker)

--Tu-16

-Average pilot (Ahmed Aziz)

-x36 Bombs

--Tu-16

-Average pilot (Jabra Hamid)

-x36 Bombs

--Su-20

-Average pilot (Athar Attieh)

-x2 Kh-28

--Su-20

-Average pilot (Risan Aati)

-x2 Kh-28

--MiG-21MF

-Average pilot (Dhari Madi)

-x2 R-60

-x2 Bombs

--MiG-21MF

-Average pilot (Ramzy Hantous)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-23MLA

-Competant pilot (Sultan Marza)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-23MLA

-Average pilot  (Siham Fayad)

-x2 R-60

--MiG-23MLA

-Average pilot (Adeep Cridi)

-x2 R-60

The Plan

The Su-20s with a MiG-21 escort will arrive first, the Sukhois job is to eliminate any radars, one mig has bombs for a chance oppotunity target but their job is to provide air cover.

The Tu-16s will arrive later to carpet bomb the airfield, they are escorted by a trio of MiG-23s which are to engage any air targets they find.

Turn 1: Both Su-20s and both MiG-21s arrive at altitude 3

Turn 3: Both Tu-16s and all the MiG-23s arrive at altitude 4

Set up

TURN 1

The first Iraqi strike arrives, two MiG-21's escorting the SU-20's, the Sukhois drop altitude a little ready for the attack run.

Two Iranian F-14's also arrive.

TURN 2

The two MiG-21's establish locks on the F-14's While the Sukhois each fire a Kh-28 missile, one heading for the early warning radar while another heads for a SAM guildance radar.

The F-14's establish locks on the Sukhois and fire off AIM-7E-4 missiles.

The two F-5's on the runway take off, two HAWK SAM missiles take to the air tracking the MiG's.

TURN 3

Dhari Madi tries to out climb the SAM missile in his MiG but fails, he ejects before the plane is blown in two.

Ramzy Hantous tries the same, he is more successful but shrapnel penetrates the canopy wounding him.

The first AIM-7E-4 hits its target, Athar Attieh fails to spot the incoming missile, its impact causes a fuel leak, Attieh breaks off and heads back to Iraqi airspace.

The second Sukhoi tries to evade the missile but is destroyed, Risan Aati manages to eject.

The two F-5s come around, as the second Iraqi strike group arrives.

Ramzy Hantous heads over the airfield, he is hit by some AA fire that does little damage, but a SAM streaks up and blows the whole rear of his MiG apart, he ejects.

TURN 4

The first Kh-28 Missile finally hits the SAM radar.

Both the F-5's start to climb and open up their after burners, the two F-14's perform a Split-S.

The Iraqi strike group drop their payload, and a total of 72 bombs devastate the airfield.

Some AA fire hits with little effect, but a SAM blows a MiG-23 out of the sky, and Adeep Cridi goes down with his plane.

TURN 5

The Strike group Carrie's on its heading and start to climb, one of F-14's manage to acquire a lock on the trailing Tu-16 but its last AIM-7E-4 fails to launch.

The last Kh-28 finally hits and destroys the early warning radar.

TURN 6

The Iraqi strike group RTB's, their mission achieved, the two Iranian F-14's also RTB due to low fuel as the Phantoms arrive.

Aftermath

Pretty solid result for the Iraqi's as they hit the airfield hard! But they did take a bit of beating themselves.

Iraq

Ramzy Hantous = Seriously Wounded

Adeep Cridi = KIA

-20% pts to Su-20

-15% pts to Tu-16

-20% pts to MiG-21MF

-10% pts to MiG-23MLA

-10%pts to Su-20 (damaged, 1 turn)

Iran

Alireza Khalili = KIA

-10% pts to F-5 Tiger II

-15% pts Hawk PAR Radar

-5% pts Medium AAA

-5%pts ADS-4 Radar

Four on Four

 Four on Four

Although I have played Squadron Commander before, it's been a while since I last played so we are starting a fresh.

Keeping it simple, we opted for Four fighters each with an equal points value, no missiles were chosen as this was a back to basics game.

Drawing my own 'cover' picture due to the lack of Squadron Commander pictures I can find.

The Scene

The Varyag Class Battle-carrier burst from hyperspace at the systems outer edge, its huge shape dwarfing the two Stoykiy Class destroyers.
Within minutes flights of Sokol Interceptors were launching and fanning out into the system on Recon orders as the big ships scanned what they could on passive sensors while on silent running.

Captain Dupont sat in his Comete's cockpit, full attention on his crafts sensors. Scan-Sats on the systems edge had detected what seemed like a hyperspace wake, which could mean something had left, arrived or it was a false reading. Over the last few weeks ghost readings had become more common and merchant men had reported ghost ships that would appear and suddenly disappear.
The rumours increased tenfold when a light freighter had drifted in system with no damage but all its crew missing.
He hated search and recon sorte's, he had been a combat pilot for nearly five years and lived for the thrill of combat, not as a sensor operator.

Neo-Soviet

-Sokol Interceptor

Captain Barinov

Skill: 12

Marksman

-Sokol Interceptor

Lieutenant Dobrow

Skill: 8

Poor Scanner Operator

-Sokol Interceptor

Lieutenant Poletov

Skill: 8

No Ability

-Sokol Interceptor

Lieutenant Mikhailov

Skill: 9

Marksman

Euro-Fed

-Comete Light Interceptor

Captain Dupont

Skill: 11

Poor Scanner Operator

-Comete Light Interceptor

Lieutenant Dufort

Skill: 4

Poor Shot

-Comete Light Interceptor

Lieutenant Boisseau

Skill: 5

No Ability

-Comete Light Interceptor

Lieutenant Gion

Skill: 6

Poor ECM Operator

Set-Up

The Euro-fed won the set-up roll, so they have managed to sneak up on the Neo-Soviet fighter group.

The Game

TURN 1

Dufort comes up behind Peletov's fighter, laser shots stabbing out, he scores a hit penetrating the sheilds and causing some minor engine damage.

Boisseau & Gion come up behind Dobrow, laser shots mauling the Sokols engines.

Peletov and Dobrow bank right.

Mikhailov performs a barrel roll as Dupont comes in firing, raking Barinov's fighter, laser shots rake the engines, weapons and cockpit wounding Barinov.

Barinov performs a barrel roll.

TURN 2

Dufort opens up on Barinov as he makes his turn, miraculously he hits, beams peppering the engines and cockpit.

Boisseau continues hammering Dobrows fighter and takes out the Neo-Soviets scanner, Gion follows him in destroying the Soviets decoy dispenser.

Dobrow and Peletov start barrel rolling round, Mikhailov heads for Boisseau with cannons blasting, the rounds tear through the light Interceptor ripping holes through the craft before detonating its fuel tank, Boisseau fails to eject and dies with his craft.

In retaliation Dupont rakes Mikhailovs fighter taking out his decoy dispencers.

Barinov finally comes round to bear, and opens up on Dupont, cannon rounds shake the fighter but the cockpit is hammered by rounds leaving Dupont seriously wounded.

TURN 3

Dufort continues his fullisade of gunfire on Barinov, lasers hammer his craft until it ruptures the fuel tank, Barinov manages to eject.

Gion damages Dobrows engines further as he swings his craft round and returns fire, slamming cannon rounds into Gions structure.

Peletov follows up on Dobrows attack, Gion ejects as his craft comes apart.

Dupont rakes Mikhailov as he speeds past, Mikhailov ejects as laser fire tears his fighter to pieces.

TURN 4

Dufort starts turning to re-engage, but Dobrow comes round first, the Euro-fed interceptor and its pilot are shredded by heavy calibre rounds.

Peletov starts a wide turn as Dupont decides that getting a report back to base was more important.

Dupont makes a sublight disengagement.

AFTERMATH

-Euro-Fed-

Captain Dupont: RTB (wounded)

Lieutenant Dufort: KIA

Lieutenant Boisseau: KIA

Lieutenant Gion: Rescued

-Neo-Soviet-

Captain Barinov: MIA

Lieutenant Dobrow: RTB

Lieutenant Peletov: RTB

Lieutenant Mikhailov: Rescued

Captain Dupont landed his Comete light interceptor on hanger 2 of Halo station, the landing was rough because despite the auto sealing suit and medical drugs that were pumped into him, his focus was off due to the wounds he had sustained.

He docked the craft on PAD-7 before popping the canopy as ground crews ran to him, removing his helmet first before passing out.

When he awoke, he was in a hospital bed, they had to operate on him after removing him from his fighter. He had been out for six hours, two hours after that Wing Commander Lavigne came to see him.

They had studied his Interceptors recorder, and had launched a system wide sweep.

One of the Sweep groups had rescued Gion.

Ten hours later he heard they had found three ships running for the jump point, bomber groups were being launched, hopefully they could disable or destroy the ships, until Euro-Fed warships caught up.

 "Production Issues!"

Game 2

Undercover operatives have reported a chemical factory in Iran has been upping its production, we are not sure what they are producing but military trucks are collecting the products.

Deployment: Short Edges

Mission: Strike (Factory)

Points Value: 200pts

Iranian Forces (Defender)

--F-5E Tiger II (Alireza Khalili)

-Competant pilot

-x2 AIM-9P

--F-5E Tiger II (Akbar Hasani)

-Average pilot

-x2 AIM-9P

--F-5E Tiger II (Mehri Seyed)

-Average pilot

-x2 AIM-9P

--F-4E Phantom (Milad Shir)

-Average pilot

-x2 AIM-9P

-AAA Radar

-x3 Medium AAA

-Hawk PAR Radar

-MIM-23 Hawk SAM

The Plan

The AAA defenses will provide low level air cover, the Phantom will provide early higher altitude harassment, and having ECM will help avoid the initial opening shots.

The three F-5's will come on later to tackle the Iraqi planes.

Turn 1: F-4E Phantom arrives at altitude 3

Turn 3: F-5E Tigers arrive at altitude 4

Iraqi Forces (Attacker)

--Tu-16 (Ahmed Aziz)

-Average pilot

-x30 Bombs

--Mirage F-1EQ (Bilal Badin)

-Competant pilot

-x2 R.550 Magic

--Mirage F-1EQ (Iman Radi)

-Competant pilot

-x2 R.550 Magic

--MiG-23MS (Siham Fayad)

-Average pilot

-x6 Bombs     

The Plan

The MiG-23 will come on first its ECM should help protect if from any SAM's, its target will be any type of guildance radar (prioritizing SAM radar over AAA radar)

The Tu-16 will arrive later to bomb the main target, the Mirages job is to protect the Strategic Bomber.

Turn 1: MiG-23 arrives at altitude 3

Turn 3: Tu-16 and both Mirages arrive at altitude 4

Set up

TURN 1

The Iranian Phantom arrives in the area at full burn,

And so does the Iraqi MiG, the HAWK radar tries to establish a lock but the MiG's ECM defeats it.

TURN 2

The MiG drops two bombs, that blows the Hawk PAR radar to bits, while the Phantom speeds in aiming to pass the MiG.

The Skyguard guns open fire, one volley clips the MiG with no effect.

TURN 3

The MiG and Phantom pass each other, the MiG drops two more bombs wiping out a Skyguard gun system, the Phantom performs a Split-S but fumbles the manouver.

The TU-16 and Mirages arrive but have picked up a tail of three F-5's, the Tiger leader locks the bomber and fires off a sidewinder, both Mirages perform an Immelmann.

The last two F-5's bank slightly to stay on the bombers tail and establish a lock.

The bomber drops 15 bombs! and the factory erupts in a hellish storm of explosions.

TURN 4

The sidewinder missile slams into the Iraqi bomber, the whole tail section is blown off, Ahmed Aziz and his crew manage to eject.

Both Mirages perform a Split-S, the F-5 leader hits the brakes while the other two F-5's bank around hard.

The MiG races away from the area with the Phantom in pursuit.

TURN 5

The MiG and Phantom RTB.

The F-5 leader, keeps his speed low waiting for the Mirages to pass, Iman Radi banks hard to come in behind the two F-5's while Bilal Badin performs a barrel roll and let's loose a Magic Missile.

The Missile strikes the F-5 blowing it to pieces, Alireza Khalili fails to eject and goes down with his plane.

TURN 6

The remaining two F-5's decided the fight was over and RTB'd.

AFTERMATH

The Factory is toast! 15 bomb hits is alot of destruction.

Iraq

Tarik Hadid = Recovering

Mousa Askar = Recovering

-10% pts to Su-20

-15% pts to Tu-16

MiG-23BN = Damaged for 1 turn (-10% pts)

Iran

Alireza Khalili = KIA

-10% pts to F-5 Tiger II

-10% pts Hawk PAR Radar

-5% pts Medium AAA

"Cut off the head . . " 

Game 1

Iraqi intelligence has pin pointed an Iranian forward command post, taking this out would disrupt Iranian ground forces in the area.

Deployment: Short Edge

Mission: Strike (Command Centre)

Points Value: 200pts

Iranian Forces (Defender)

--F-14A Tomcat

-Competant pilot (Parvis Azizi)

-x2 AIM-54A missiles

-x2 AIM-9P missiles

--F-14A Tomcat

-Competant pilot (Keyvan Bayat)

-x2 AIM-54A missiles

-x2 AIM-9P missiles

-Light AAA

-x2 Medium AAA

-AAA Radar

-x2 Hawk PAR radar

-x2 MIM-23 Hawk SAM

The Plan

The ground weapons will provide a low level hazard zone, the Tomcats will arrive at high altitude to eliminate any high altitude bombers and swoop down if needed.

Turn 2: x2 Tomcats arrive at altitude 5

Iraqi Forces (Attacker)

--MIG-23BN

-Average pilot (Mousa Askar)

-x4 Kh-23 missiles

--SU-20

-Poor pilot (Tarik Hadid)

-x16 bombs

--SU-20

-Poor pilot (Imad Shaalan)

-x16 bombs

--Mirage F-1EQ

-Competant pilot (Bilal Badin)

-x2 Super 530F missiles

-x2 Magic R.550 missiles

-x6 bombs

The Plan

The MIG-23 will come on first, hopefully its ECM will allow it to avoid too much ground fire. Using its missiles to take out ground radars and weapon systems.

The SU-20s will come on next to bomb the main target.

The Mirage will provide air cover but has the ability to bomb the target if needed.

Turn 1: MIG-23 arrives at altitude 1

Turn 3: x2 SU-20 arrive at altitude 2

               Mirage arrives at altitude 4

Set up

TURN 1

The MiG-23BN speeds on at low altitude, the pilot quickly acquires a lock on a HAWK guildance radar and let's off a Kh-23 ATGM.

The ZU-23-2 opens fire and hits nothing, the SAMs fire off two missiles.

TURN 2

The two Iranian Tomcats arrive, the Kh-23 slams into the HAWK radar blasting it to pieces. The SAM missiles home in on the MiG, but Askar makes a last minute defensive turn and avoids both missiles.

The ZU-23-2 continues to pour ineffective fire at the MiG, two more SAM missiles are launched and the sky guard systems start to open fire.

Both Tomcats drop altitude as they make a tight turn, the MiG also drops his speed.

TURN 3

The Iraqi Sukhoi's and Mirage arrive.

The SAM missiles once again home in on the MiG, who puts the plane into a steep climb, both missiles proximity fuses detonate the warheads but no damage is caused.

Both Tomcats gain speed and make another tight turn.

Badin decides to drop his bomb payload rather than chace the F-14s, the bombs hit home.

The ZU-23-2 continues to be ineffective but both the sky guard guns catch the MiG in a crossfire.

The aircraft is peppered full of holes, damaging the plane and wounding the pilot.

The last two SAM missiles are launched at the Sukhois.

TURN 4

The two SAM missiles detonate close to Hadids Sukhoi, he is wounded and the aircraft damaged.

Askar opens up the Afterburner on his MiG and RTBs.

Both Tomcats perform a Split-S, the Mirage drops some altitude and banks round hard as both Sukhois drop their bomb payloads.

Hadids bomb load falls short but Shaalans hit on target.

TURN 5

Both Tomcats come in behind the Sukhois and get radar locks, and luanch four sidewinders . . .

Hadid is struck by two missiles, his plane is blown to pieces but he manages to eject.

Shaalan goes evasive and manages to dodge the two sidewinders.

The Sukhoi and Mirage RTB.

AFTERMATH

Pretty safe to say the Command post is destroyed, with a total of 22 bomb hits!

Iraq

Tarik Hadid = Lightly Wounded

Mousa Askar = Lightly Wounded

-10% pts to Su-20

MiG-23BN = Damaged for 2 turns (-10% pts)

Iran

-5% pts Hawk PAR Radar