Tue, 13 Apr 2004
Downtown D1 - Turn 3 Summary
This map shows the situation at the end of turn 3.
I continued to move the three DRV flights towards Hanoi. I have yet to decide what to do with them after they have reached Hanoi, however. I could either split them up and go after what I am assuming are the USAF bomber flights (105, 300 and 101 - due to their relatively slow speed of 3 movement pts) and risk them getting in the way of SAM shots, OR let them loiter until after the SAMs have blown their wads, and try and pick off stragglers.
Right now, I am guessing that the raid target is one of those along the Red River. Making a few assumptions about the target and flight path of the strike, I could get my one real DRV flight to intercept probably during turn 7 or 8, and it looks like it would be just inside the envelope for SAM launches. If I was able to successfully engage at least one of the strike aircraft, that would be a big help, since merely engaging a strike a/c is a mission kill as the a/c must pickle it's bomb load. I would then need to get my DRV a/c out of the SAM strike area to allow them to do their thing...Hmmmm. Decisions, decisions!
Also, at the end of Turn 3, SAM site G goes live. I imagine this will make their pulse jump a little. Let's see if we can't knock one of those two a/c at high altitude out of the air.
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