Cheating Ambush - Sea Power vs

Another scenario by the excellent Stealth17 himself! This time it is Germany vs the Soviets. A carefully crafted, interesting scenario, where you don't have the perfect tools for the job and you must use all the assets you have together to achieve victory. OR you can look at your airbase and go 'screw history'.
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[@Fighterpilot555]

For future reference, when engaging fighter jets with fighter jets, the first thing you do after you deploy countermeasures is command your fighters to "dive for the deck". Make them go as low as the game allows you, air launched missiles become less effective when their seeker is pointing at the ground

[@Possumbaby1413]

And fire those Sparrows in pairs to ensure better chance of hits.

[@BrotherMunro]

Good tips! ☺️

[@hannesorisson1200]

Also it draga the missiles into thicker air.

[@TheIceDragon225]

Is it actually modeled in-game tho

[@Im_Bored_Today]

The first launch of the Harpoon by an operational squadron was from a P-3C of VP-23 in 1979.

[@BrotherMunro]

Huzzah! I didn’t cheat then 😎

[@Im_Bored_Today]

@@BrotherMunro If you've ever read Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, should be some good naval scenarios from that that would be great for Sea Power :)

[@BrotherMunro]

@ oh gosh I haven’t read a tom Clancy in years! Yes you’re right they would be an excellent source of scenarios

[@XrandomnessX]

Man those P-3s would dominate the STOL competitions in Alaska.

[@Arks1103]

You cheeky little guy, stealth would have never expected this would happen🤣🤣

[@sawyerbates2032]

The reason the enemy formation stopped is probably because of a bug in the game, where when the lead ship of a formation is sunk, the rest of the formation does not know what to do or where to go. Hope they get it fixed before launch.

[@blake9908]

Is that the case? or are the other ships picking up survivors?

[@dougjb7848]

No, the formation would not stop for survivors, it would continue on.

[@mikedoria6770]

Easy fix - add hierarchy model - top 3 ships in the formation or just number them all and assign a lead...

[@forcea1454]

The Ivan Rogov also has a 122mm MLRS system, non-functional in-game, hidden under the tarpaulin on the forward superstructure.

[@tjh8402]

Nice job with the RA-5. You’re probably the first person I’ve seen use the plane effectively. It really is one of the most important and useful assets in the game. You can’t beat the SA it provides combined with range/loitering time while still being fast enough to stay out of trouble. I also appreciate you strategically used your assets against the best targets (i.e. using the Orion in harpoons against the warships, presented the biggest danger so that your other ships could finish things off. The one thing you could’ve done is launch a SEAD strike. Shrikes will target hit and disable warships radar so at a minimum, they can’t shoot back. The resulting fires and explosions will usually generate additional damage.

[@dougjb7848]

1:13:30 obviously carrying a cargo of styrofoam.

[@jimjamjoeyjoejoe]

This looks pretty good. Less arcadey than UAD (which I still love.).

[@adamtruong1759]

I was kind of hoping the Tiger fast attack craft would get a chance with their Exocets and hit the Soviets, but it clearly seems to me that this mission can be solely done by P-3 Orions. Nobody expects them.

[@dougjb7848]

Are they Spanish? Do they … make inquisitions?

[@wastelander89]

Love your videos as always

[@Dionysus2009]

I'm not sure if its programed into the game though, but higher altitudes should allow the AIM-7 to travel further distances. You might have done better if it is.

[@mikedoria6770]

When you fire missiles you can do a defensive crank at 45 degrees to maintain your close rate or at least reduce it - also 2 salvo fire for each target - Sparrows are shite - why not? As soon as you had 3 shot down you should have launched the next 4 and chainsawed them to the last man standing to take over and RTB him. In my opinion...Not sure if defensive cranks and that kind of thing are modelled here? DO you know?

[@taiko1237]

The Soviet fleet may not have been able to engage the Harpoons very well because iirc SA-N-1s (at least the early variants) weren't very good at hitting very low sea-skimming targets like a Harpoon, so the Kanin and the Kresta may not have actually been able to hit them. Doesn't explain why the Grishas didn't, since SA-N-3s (which were point defense SAMs and therefore wouldn't be very useful if they had that problem) would have been able to engage the Harpoons though.

[@BrotherMunro]

I did have the E-6 trying to jam them, the Soviet stuff seems pretty prone to that

[@taiko1237]

@@BrotherMunro Yeah, I made the point because the Sovremenny (which has more modern missiles) was at least trying to intercept the second batch of Harpoons aimed at it and the landing ships by firing its SAMs at them.

[@dougjb7848]

How would one work this mission without using the P3s in ASuW loadout? Given the shallow water and OPFOR capabilities, it seems quite tricksome.

[@peterseifert1318]

What's now wrong with YT? Why can't I like? 🤬 Edit: a few moments later it let me finally like the video 🎉

[@mikedoria6770]

ECM seems maybe a little to powerful!

[@ThePadadada]

So chat gpt says 1983 was the integration of the Harpoon

[@Ooniah]

that was the later variants, block 1B and 1C came in in the mid-80s. Block 1A is the one in the game and was introduced in 1977.

[@KanJonathan]

Wasn't AA-8/R-60 still rear rear aspect?

[@hannesorisson1200]

The M variant circa 1982-4 was all aspect.

[@hannesorisson1200]

But I just watched that dogfight and yes the MiGs should have been able to shoot down the Phantoms from that aspect.

[@MandolinMagi]

Yes. It's effectively just a lighter AA-2, which is an AIM-9B copy whose failures are mostly excused by being one of the first heat-seekers ever.

[@Aiwendill]

Torpedo going "slow" at 35 knots? Meh... you are just spoiled by other games, BM. ☺

[@BrotherMunro]

Also by more modern reality where because alpha class SSN’s exist 50knot torpedoes are pretty common 😅

[@taiko1237]

@@BrotherMunro Yeah... there's not much use in having a 35 knot torpedo when most nuclear attack subs can go at least 30 knots and some can manage 40