(CCPlays) Cold Waters (Dot Mod): The Bastion Gambit 1984 REDUX -- 688 vs SSBN plus MANY Escorts
0The year is 1984, and we are in the time of "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy (and Larry Bond). In this simple Cold Waters scenario, "The Bastion Gambit", a 688 has been tasked with penetrating both the surface and subsurface escorts of a Soviet boomer (ballistic missile sub) and kill it... while being hunted by the escorts AND the the subs AND maritime patrol aircrafts AND helos from the escorts...
Last time I tried this mission, I killed ALL of the escorts, but can't find the boomer. It got away in the chaos. How will I fare this time?
My standard loadout when entering dangerous situations is always 3 torps and 1 decoy.
As we got settled, we quickly found ourselves facing a bit of surface traffic jam... where 6 surface ships plus active sonobuoys from anti-sub patrol aircrafts are all north of me, within 16km or so. After a bit of work, we've isolated the 3 civilian ships, tentatively identified as 3 trawlers, along with a Kresta II, a Krivak I, and a Udaloy. There may be submerged contacts I haven't found yet. I expect at least two subs, in addition to the boomer.
With a bit of a wait, it seems all civilian ships are heading out of the area... Kresta and Krivak are heading south and closer to me, while Udaloy is further to NNE heading SW.
My plan is to dump all three torpedoes to NNE at a dogleg, and engage the Kresta. and trying to spook anything in that direction. As the torpedo got halfway there, seems I spooked the wrong target... a Tango or Kilo popped up between Kresta and I, and fired two torpedoes at me! One is way off, but the other may come pretty close... But no cigar. I descended to 15m above sea floor and just waited in ultraquiet.
The northern sub turned out to be a Kilo and after dodging the torpedo four times, she finally ate the torpedo and sank. Kresta took a torp. Then it was Krivak, the finally Udaloy. That's when I notice a submerged contact to the north... This is either another Kilo... or it's the SSBN.
There are no more military surface contacts. On the scope are 3 civilian contacts, all heading away from the area, plus one SSBN to my north, and one SSKN to my west heading south. The solution to Typhoon to north is faint, even with towed array deployed. I fired 3 topredos northward hoping to dogleg it to Typhoon, and divert one to west after the Kilo.
Somehow, the torpedoes I sent north with guide wires started to shut down, leaving a SINGLE torpedo active, but I managed to score a hit on the Typhoon. Unfortunately, Typhoon is big enough I needed 2-3 hits (or more) to kill it. The one I sent west just vanished about halfway.
I replaced the MOSS decoy for a torpedo, then loaded 3 torpedoes for total of 4, and fired them all northward. Seems the Typhoon had turned aggressive on me and is heading toward me, so much so my torpedos had to make a hard left as they had already gone past the Typhoon. However, the turn also drew his counter-fire, as he had fired no less than THREE torpedoes in a spread toward ENE. but I am really to the south of him. That inadvertent dogleg was a lucky break for me.
When the setup is finally right, I made sure we are steady when I fired yet another salvo of torpedoes... 2 toward the Typhoon to the north, and one toward the Kilo to the W. These are my final torpedoes.
The torpedo to the west just disappeared again, as if it hit the seafloor despite setting to shallow. Then I saw that Typhon had sunk, even though I did not hear any explosions. I turned the two torpedoes back toward the Kilo, noting that these are my final torpedoes.
Both torpedoes vanished when they are about 4km from the Kilo... out of battery. ARGH!!!!!!
With no weapon to touch the Kilo, I turned NW to exit the area.
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Not quite a clean sweep, as one Kilo got away, but this is still an excellent result. The primary objective was completed, and the secondary objective was mostly completed with zero damage.
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