I also like this, and at the early midpoint of the battle, you get to understand that the CVN commander in RSR was a bit of a dolt. There had to be wargames about deception and multiple strike groups. You don't burn all your f-14's at the first radar signal.
Irony is, in Red Storm Rising, USS Nimitz took 2 missiles and stayed afloat, just like she did here. This really was a great reenactment of that battle, with the bombers converging from all points of the compass, with exactly the same result for the carrier.
lol spoiler alert for the first comment we see...I'm going to get into this video but it's eye opening after the previous fleet actions we've seen how the refueling of the F14's matter and it's also apparent that 7+ regiments of backfires are going to be a test for a CBG. I'm a broken record but it seems to me that the cold war's military-industrial complex politics lead to a lack of finesse in how these fleet actions would have played out. That is, the USN's strategy is all expensive hardware dependent and, unless there was a whole doctrine that they've kept hidden for decades, there should have been massive decoy operations for the fleet. The soviet missiles should've been presented with 20-40 false carrier radar targets, from everything from smaller ships driving side by side, floating inflatables, and helicopters with radar transponders (if the badgers could launch missiles to pretend they're planes in RSR why couldn't the USN?). I don't know what the 80's tech world knew about radar absorbing materials but for the cost of saving a carrier, I'd put a stripe of radar goo down the middle to cut a nimitz's cross section into two ships. Instead, from what we've seen in previous videos, if the soviets get lucky on launch, rail launched SAMs can't handle it.
it's true, the AIF14's can't do anything right, eh? And the F-18's are kinda useless. The more humans flying, the better the outcome. And we don't see the backfires getting mechanical difficulties (1000 miles at mach 2?) or running out of fuel. But my questions were really about what DCS shows us what maybe the 80's era wargames the navy played couldn't show the brass. That maybe a full on 8+ regiment attack is razor's edge of survival with current strategy. @@exidy-yt
@@dfsdude I would argue that the most unrealistic issuse here is that out of all those Kh-22 launched, all of them got near the target. Even the Soviets says on their official document that this missile has a 300m CEP which means it will miss at least 50% of the time when you fire it at a stationary target, much less a moving and evading carrier.
Definitely want more of Cap not flying so we can see more of the overall battle happening. And Cortana (Kortana?) set up a great battle with a lot of WTF moments.
As usual, great fun everyone! Thanks for the work Kortana, and Cap for thevideo and commentary. Everyone flying was really in it, from what was said in chatter. BEST fun on the tube, all. Peace.
I love these scenarios. Kortana really knows how to give the boys a good challenge. The pop-up low level bomber flights were especially dirty. Fantastic job Kortana, Cap, and all of the boys and as always fantastic content!
That was great. Proper to Kortana for a great setup! The problems the guys mentioned at the end were realistic (incomplete picture, jamming, no range to target) so even the debrief felt honest. Good to see Cap's commentary reacting to things he didn't know were there (datalink mode > god mode).
I love these re-enactments of Red Storm Rising, definitely one of my favourite books by a long shot. I know this is a bit different but is still amazing he managed to wargame this back in the 80's with none of this fancy modern software we see here. Plus I love Kortana's set up here and being the eyes and ears for everyone else. I can't put my finger on it but it just works somehow. Good work everyone!
Great video! Conducting missions like this one adds a new dimension to the game play of the channel. The GCI live aspect to this mission was brilliant!
The commentary between Matrix and Kortana at around 33:00, when Matrix said something about exiting serviceable aircraft... I laughed out loud!! I'm an old Jarhead, but my job in the Corps was a parachute rigger. Everyone who isn't Airborne in the Army or the Marines always had the quote on deck, "Why would anyone ever leave a completely serviceable aircraft?!". Haha!!! Matrix, you sir made my evening, I felt like I was in my old unit for a moment hearing you say that!! I spent a good deal of my time enlisted jumping out of all sorts of aircraft, and during my time in I jumped out of pretty much everything the US was operating that dropped troops, and even several jumps with allied military units out of airframes they were operating. As all Airborne schools at my time were Army schools, I became a Jumpmaster with the 82nd at Bragg. I say all this to circle back to a moment I remember distinctly. Of all the aircraft I've tossed myself out of, the good old C-130 was by far the most frequented. One time though, I was riding TAD (temporary additional duty) on a C-130 when I was just a boot Lance Corporal, and I remember the weather being shit as we were coming in for approach, and the crew chief looked at me and asked, "First time flying?", and I replied, "No, first time landing." . As person who has fallen out of the sky many times on purpose, I somehow always feel more comfortable coming back to earth under a canopy!! Sorry for rambling about my old stuff, that moment of dialogue just struck a particular chord with this old Jarhead Jumpmaster!!
the conversations about going for a swim in the north atlantic were funny too. Did the f14 give their ejection seats an inflatable raft? I remember in RSR the f18's did.
Lol, I know exactly how you feel. Landing in the fully loaded jump plane is not my idea of a good time. Landing my canopy, on the other hand, is a blast!
We shall call this "The Vance of the Dampires". Similar, but with differences. I love this style milsim/tactical. And now I am looking at this map in a whole new light. It never occurred to me that the Falklands could be Iceland, like Guam is Hawaii in the other missions. Klever Kortana is her new handle. This is worthy of her efforts
I vote that you guys (and gals) try to get something like this once a month. That should leave enough time for Kortana to be able to build and test the scenarios without there being a huge time crunch to get it all done. Also, no offense to Cap, but having him as a full time cameraman for these sscenarios rather than being a pilot seems almost perfect to me. I would also like to maybe see a bit more of a detailed TacView debrief as well, but i think that what we got out of this for a first time run through was fantastic. And lastly, MOAR KORTANA!
The Soviets did have RORSATs but it's trivial for a carrier group to simply change direction whilst those pass overhead. At 30+ knots a carrier group can cover a lot of distance in the time between periods of RORSAT coverage: 4 hours is over 200km. Add in EMCON conditions, and it would be non-trivial to find a carrier group that doesn't want to be found...
Hey cap, I think everyone liked the idea of such a tactical battle. I suggest if u do all the war games, which u do urself, in such tactical manner, that the human pilots wont know in entirety but the gist of the opponent and their tactics, position, weapons etc
Just for fun, how about the reverse scenario? A Kuznetsov (or to compensate, more than one) with Su-33 and equivalent escort, with NATO attacking with B-1s in the place of the TU-22M and B-52s in place of Tu-95M. All in whatever proportion you think will make it "equivalent", just reverse, to this scenario. Great job by the way!
Not really a way to have a "reverse" scenario. Kuznetsof never sailed for the soviets, and Russian and soviet doctrine are entirely different than NATO doctrines. Soviet/Russian naval doctrine is centered around anti-ship capabilities not anti-aircraft like NATO doctrine, similarly there's not a fleet of NATO anti-ship ground based aircraft like the soviets had.
That disclaimer was hilarious. Sensitive Sally’s I swear. I really liked this, and would love to see it again given the pilots know what adjustments they should make. Well done Kortana, thanks Reapers, appreciate the vid Super Cap.
Kudos to Kortana on a great scenario. Cap's scenarios are mostly testing equipment not tactics.(kinda like taking two matchbox cars and smashing them together) This had a much greater tactical feel incorporating staggered waves of red flights, multiple avenues of approach, deception. My only quibble is that (and I am assuming a wartime footing) I would have expected a second E2 airborne. Great mission overall. Highlights the need for ED to keep working on the AI!
Yeah, I considered have multiple E-2's up, but, when they were properly positioned, it ended up providing what I felt was too good of a picture in my opinion. I wanted us to have good yet imperfect coverage.
Brilliant! I loved watching this. I am a newbe and learning the F15. I hope that some day I will be able to join you guys. I have a lot of aircraft to learn and master first. Please keep making these engagements
This is the best type of mission. Its more akin to reality. Another cool idea would be doing something like the india-pakistan campaign but not letting each side know what the other side's objectives are
Tense! Terrifying! A real thriller! (And I suppose each group would have a dedicated air combat controller directing them). Still! Excellent! And closer to the real thing than ever! Well done!!!
Nato and USN doctrine at the time was that NO less than 4 carriers in a large group could fight and survive in the North Atlantic. Add 3 more carriers to this scenario, and that'll be a much more realistic scenario, as cool as this one was. Also, a Soviet regiment of Naval aviation (Backfires) was 21 to 30ish aircraft, 11 regiments would be 200 to 300 Backfires.
Unfortunately DCS can't really support something on that scale, I've tried. It will only even run at 1/8th speed so that means no human pilots and like an 8hr long video.
rewatched, took notes: 7:00 radar contact 14:45 missiles away 23.20 vampires 24:59 sm2 26:45 OHP down 27:45 CVN CWIS 28:00 cvn hit1 28:50 "dregs" 29:25 rewenge so, 16 minutes after radar contact, TU22 were able to launch and about 20 minutes from radar contact until the carrier is forced to employ CWIS. intense.
And eerily so! In all of my testing while fiddling with the setup, the carrier was always sunk, usually along with a solid third of the fleet. It is interesting to see what difference just a handful of humans made in how things played out.
IDEAS- (and I'm not a Gamer)- 1) Could a single, modern, non-nuke-tipped CARRIER GROUP have shut-down Germany in WWII? 2) Could a single ABRAMS TANK have defeated the Civil War Confederacy?
So for 1, assuming that they had enough fuel and ordnance, a single modern carrier group would have almost certainly been a decisive game changer. Not so sure on number 2. While a tank could have easily turned the tide of a battle, it is hard to imagine that they wouldn't have eventually found a way to disable it.
Yes, for #1 vs Germany WWII, it would be interesting how much effect a modern non-nuked carrier group would have had.. I imagine they could have sent up an escorted AWACS, identified where Hitler & boys were hanging out, then decimated the high command in Berlin, for starters. For the Civil War scenario, (of which I am a buff), the main problem for the Union forces was breaking through Lee's lines. If an Abrams (or other tank) could have punched a solid hole through the Confederate lines say at Fredricksburg or Antietam, the Union could have used it's numeric superiority and stormed Richmond. It came close a number of times to doing that, (bad command leadership often spoiled it). 1860's ordinance would have had a hard time taking out an Abrams.. at least until the Union exploited the major breach.@@KortanaDCS
Have thought about this. At Gettysburg, a single Abrams, with one tank of fuel and a 50-round mix of anti-personnel rounds and some HE, could have bee-lined straight across the fields to Lee's headquarters and potentially taken him out, along with a lot of the Rebel high command. Turning back again, it could have then quickly decimated a good deal of the artillery lines, then turned west again back down the Emmitsburg Road and destroyed most of the critical supply lines and wagons. The Union forces could have easily capitalized on such a dismaying breakthrough enough to overwhelm the Confederates, quite likely once and for all. This is what I think about at night! (-:
Kortana!😁✌ Please create a U.S./Allied SAM/SHORAD corridor, just like when you used to make Russian corridors, this time the boyz will be flying Chinese and Russian planes through Uncle SAM Corridor ;) Please include several layers of systems, at the beginning older variants, and moving forward it gets increasingly difficult! Please include MANPADS, Avenger Air Defense Systems, C-Ram's, Different variants of NASAMS, IRIS-T's, Iron Dome, and different variants of Patriots! Lol and anything else I maybe forgetting, again please deployed better variants later on and every Corridor Ring layered up with variety of systems! Please have the location at The Great Pyramids with GR Headquarters right next to them as the target!🙏👍
@@KortanaDCS thanks😄🙏 would Really love to see Everyone, Yourself, and Cap struggle against your Corridor as it becomes more difficult! Considering how entertaining/difficult you've made them in the past! Yeah shout out to CH for essentially all the weapons systems/Mods! Just really like the idea, think it's certainly different, and I kno your the best person to make it happen!
Terrific video guys and gals! KORTANA always puts 💯% into her setups and she doesn't miss a single detail! Looking for your guys next "Carrier Command" video where you said you were going to use 2 different human groups and the computer. AND,,,,,,....,. KORTANA, my heart yearns for you! Your voice sends stimuli throughout my body like Grumpniks alcohol and Simba's candy! Come to me my dear and I will record your voice for ALL TO HEAR YOU AS I DO! My first poem! Hope I don't cause you guys to be demonetized!😊 Wish I had a gaming computer so I could practice and play and maybe EVENTUALLY become a "GRIM REAPER"!
So I'm guessing we are simulating that both Iceland and Norway is taken out of action, and UK is somehow suppressed? Cause having played this scenario countless times in Harpoon, I can't see any other option. If UK was still in, the Low Eastern group is not viable, but the rest is tricky but doable with Norway and Iceland occupied/pacified. Good run, though :)
I'd love to see a completely blind scenario. Have someone outside of the group put everything together, give you guys just the basics - era what you're flying/on and roughly where in the world you are and go. So today you'd have known it's the 80's you're on an american carrier in the middle of the atlantic and the cold war has gone hot. See how that goes.
Great to see Kortana back (hopefully on the regular.) Does she have a military or defence professional background, if she's happy to disclose? Certainly you can get that level of knowledge as an amateur, but she seems proficient and practiced with it, like Matrix. Either way, this was a great scenario. BZ to all involved.
Just a heads up youtube unsubscribed me. I've been watching your vids for the past 2 years or so. Your story telling, directing, and visuals get better every month. Keep it up.
So the Su-24's were just a stand in for older missiles being used as decoys. I had them programmed to just fly straight ahead on full burner until they ran out of fuel.
We need more of Kortana. She is meticulously devious. 🐐
Indeed!
You are an embarrassment. Simp generation...
And her voice is sierra echo x-ray yankee
Kortana adds an air of order to a slightly chaotic assemblage ;)
She is certainly no bull lol
I love Kortana’s scenarios. Glad to see her back on the channel 😀
I also like this, and at the early midpoint of the battle, you get to understand that the CVN commander in RSR was a bit of a dolt. There had to be wargames about deception and multiple strike groups. You don't burn all your f-14's at the first radar signal.
Irony is, in Red Storm Rising, USS Nimitz took 2 missiles and stayed afloat, just like she did here. This really was a great reenactment of that battle, with the bombers converging from all points of the compass, with exactly the same result for the carrier.
lol spoiler alert for the first comment we see...I'm going to get into this video but it's eye opening after the previous fleet actions we've seen how the refueling of the F14's matter and it's also apparent that 7+ regiments of backfires are going to be a test for a CBG. I'm a broken record but it seems to me that the cold war's military-industrial complex politics lead to a lack of finesse in how these fleet actions would have played out. That is, the USN's strategy is all expensive hardware dependent and, unless there was a whole doctrine that they've kept hidden for decades, there should have been massive decoy operations for the fleet. The soviet missiles should've been presented with 20-40 false carrier radar targets, from everything from smaller ships driving side by side, floating inflatables, and helicopters with radar transponders (if the badgers could launch missiles to pretend they're planes in RSR why couldn't the USN?). I don't know what the 80's tech world knew about radar absorbing materials but for the cost of saving a carrier, I'd put a stripe of radar goo down the middle to cut a nimitz's cross section into two ships.
Instead, from what we've seen in previous videos, if the soviets get lucky on launch, rail launched SAMs can't handle it.
@@dfsdude Please keep the limitations of DCS in mind, dude. It's a damn good sim but it's far from RL.
it's true, the AIF14's can't do anything right, eh? And the F-18's are kinda useless. The more humans flying, the better the outcome. And we don't see the backfires getting mechanical difficulties (1000 miles at mach 2?) or running out of fuel. But my questions were really about what DCS shows us what maybe the 80's era wargames the navy played couldn't show the brass. That maybe a full on 8+ regiment attack is razor's edge of survival with current strategy. @@exidy-yt
@@dfsdude I would argue that the most unrealistic issuse here is that out of all those Kh-22 launched, all of them got near the target. Even the Soviets says on their official document that this missile has a 300m CEP which means it will miss at least 50% of the time when you fire it at a stationary target, much less a moving and evading carrier.
and good thing because the F-14 relocated to Britain won the war...
Definitely want more of Cap not flying so we can see more of the overall battle happening. And Cortana (Kortana?) set up a great battle with a lot of WTF moments.
Excellent work Kortana, big thumbs up.
Love you cap but Cortana can read me the phone book
Agreed
Anytime Kortana is in a video is a banger! She is incredibly gifted for these types of videos and I love. More Kor please!
As usual, great fun everyone! Thanks for the work Kortana, and Cap for thevideo and commentary. Everyone flying was really in it, from what was said in chatter. BEST fun on the tube, all. Peace.
I love these scenarios. Kortana really knows how to give the boys a good challenge. The pop-up low level bomber flights were especially dirty. Fantastic job Kortana, Cap, and all of the boys and as always fantastic content!
Always a treat to hear Kortana!
That was great. Proper to Kortana for a great setup! The problems the guys mentioned at the end were realistic (incomplete picture, jamming, no range to target) so even the debrief felt honest. Good to see Cap's commentary reacting to things he didn't know were there (datalink mode > god mode).
Fun mission to watch! Thanks for the effort in planning it, Kortana, Cap and co.
Woo hoo! Kortana! Welcome back, ma'am.
I'd like to see more videos around Kortana and Matrix simply for their professionalism, realism, and badassery.
I love these re-enactments of Red Storm Rising, definitely one of my favourite books by a long shot. I know this is a bit different but is still amazing he managed to wargame this back in the 80's with none of this fancy modern software we see here. Plus I love Kortana's set up here and being the eyes and ears for everyone else.
I can't put my finger on it but it just works somehow. Good work everyone!
This was a brilliant battle! The tactical command aspect really makes things even more realistic.
Great video! Conducting missions like this one adds a new dimension to the game play of the channel. The GCI live aspect to this mission was brilliant!
The commentary between Matrix and Kortana at around 33:00, when Matrix said something about exiting serviceable aircraft... I laughed out loud!! I'm an old Jarhead, but my job in the Corps was a parachute rigger. Everyone who isn't Airborne in the Army or the Marines always had the quote on deck, "Why would anyone ever leave a completely serviceable aircraft?!". Haha!!! Matrix, you sir made my evening, I felt like I was in my old unit for a moment hearing you say that!! I spent a good deal of my time enlisted jumping out of all sorts of aircraft, and during my time in I jumped out of pretty much everything the US was operating that dropped troops, and even several jumps with allied military units out of airframes they were operating. As all Airborne schools at my time were Army schools, I became a Jumpmaster with the 82nd at Bragg. I say all this to circle back to a moment I remember distinctly. Of all the aircraft I've tossed myself out of, the good old C-130 was by far the most frequented. One time though, I was riding TAD (temporary additional duty) on a C-130 when I was just a boot Lance Corporal, and I remember the weather being shit as we were coming in for approach, and the crew chief looked at me and asked, "First time flying?", and I replied, "No, first time landing." . As person who has fallen out of the sky many times on purpose, I somehow always feel more comfortable coming back to earth under a canopy!! Sorry for rambling about my old stuff, that moment of dialogue just struck a particular chord with this old Jarhead Jumpmaster!!
the conversations about going for a swim in the north atlantic were funny too. Did the f14 give their ejection seats an inflatable raft? I remember in RSR the f18's did.
Lol, I know exactly how you feel. Landing in the fully loaded jump plane is not my idea of a good time. Landing my canopy, on the other hand, is a blast!
We shall call this "The Vance of the Dampires". Similar, but with differences. I love this style milsim/tactical. And now I am looking at this map in a whole new light. It never occurred to me that the Falklands could be Iceland, like Guam is Hawaii in the other missions. Klever Kortana is her new handle. This is worthy of her efforts
This was awesome with a dedicated GCI & cap doing camera, more please ;)
Great recording cap Thanks for putting it together Kortana
Cap outside watching Admiral Kortana or CAG Kortana this is great. Plus Matrix and Simba OMG just wow...do more of this please
You always try to provide us with great stuff. And once again, you succeed great partnership. This was awesome.
Well look at Kortana! Kudos for the effort, patience and passion to make something this meticulous and kudos for you guys, for pulling it through!!!
I vote that you guys (and gals) try to get something like this once a month. That should leave enough time for Kortana to be able to build and test the scenarios without there being a huge time crunch to get it all done.
Also, no offense to Cap, but having him as a full time cameraman for these sscenarios rather than being a pilot seems almost perfect to me.
I would also like to maybe see a bit more of a detailed TacView debrief as well, but i think that what we got out of this for a first time run through was fantastic.
And lastly, MOAR KORTANA!
Great content here. And Kortana, aint _even_ gonna lie, really made my day to see you back here!❤
congrats for all the hard work to set this up... it was so much fun to watch it play out
So glad to see Cortana back
The Soviets did have RORSATs but it's trivial for a carrier group to simply change direction whilst those pass overhead. At 30+ knots a carrier group can cover a lot of distance in the time between periods of RORSAT coverage: 4 hours is over 200km.
Add in EMCON conditions, and it would be non-trivial to find a carrier group that doesn't want to be found...
Hey cap, I think everyone liked the idea of such a tactical battle. I suggest if u do all the war games, which u do urself, in such tactical manner, that the human pilots wont know in entirety but the gist of the opponent and their tactics, position, weapons etc
That was really well done!
Great job Kortana and GR Team! Definitely love your big battle scenarios the most!
Just for fun, how about the reverse scenario? A Kuznetsov (or to compensate, more than one) with Su-33 and equivalent escort, with NATO attacking with B-1s in the place of the TU-22M and B-52s in place of Tu-95M. All in whatever proportion you think will make it "equivalent", just reverse, to this scenario. Great job by the way!
Not really a way to have a "reverse" scenario. Kuznetsof never sailed for the soviets, and Russian and soviet doctrine are entirely different than NATO doctrines. Soviet/Russian naval doctrine is centered around anti-ship capabilities not anti-aircraft like NATO doctrine, similarly there's not a fleet of NATO anti-ship ground based aircraft like the soviets had.
@@92HazelMochaRight now, USAF B1 Lancers can utilize the AGM158C LRASM. Even transport C17 Globemaster IIIs and C17J Hercules can use the LRASM.
This was excellent GR, thank you Cap and Kortana and boys!
Valued viewers value Kortana
I love to see the steps you've put in place to make all the scenarios more viable and more realistic over time, top notch content!
This was outstanding. Kortana is a genius at this kind of thing.
That disclaimer was hilarious. Sensitive Sally’s I swear. I really liked this, and would love to see it again given the pilots know what adjustments they should make. Well done Kortana, thanks Reapers, appreciate the vid Super Cap.
Fabulous scenario, well presented video, and some good humour too. My thanks to Cap, Kortana and the pilots involved!
Great job Kortana!
Echoing the general sentiment, this was fantastic!. Incredible work, Kortana
This format was awesome! Really cool with the biblical proportions of it all. Props to Kortana!
Kudos to Kortana on a great scenario. Cap's scenarios are mostly testing equipment not tactics.(kinda like taking two matchbox cars and smashing them together) This had a much greater tactical feel incorporating staggered waves of red flights, multiple avenues of approach, deception. My only quibble is that (and I am assuming a wartime footing) I would have expected a second E2 airborne. Great mission overall. Highlights the need for ED to keep working on the AI!
Yeah, I considered have multiple E-2's up, but, when they were properly positioned, it ended up providing what I felt was too good of a picture in my opinion. I wanted us to have good yet imperfect coverage.
One of the best battles to date!
this iteration seems to work really well. A controller, and a narrator.
Ice missed carrier commander so this is a way of doing it in DCS haha.
I think I'm in love with Kortana 😬
Love the Kortana scenarios
Man I got stressed watching this. Great Grim Reaper Action.
Brilliant! I loved watching this. I am a newbe and learning the F15. I hope that some day I will be able to join you guys. I have a lot of aircraft to learn and master first. Please keep making these engagements
I’m a huge fan of vids with CH as guest, but this has gotta be one of the funnest vids I’ve seen in a while. It was so exciting!
@33:08 I dunno, I've seen some of Kortana's videos. There is a certain mud puddle she's landed in a time or two.
It was a tough scenario for sure!! Congratulations on keeping the carrier group as safe as possible!!
This was one of the most exciting scenarios y'all've run. Love it!
This was great to watch. Much better than the way you normally format your Wargames. It gives a much more “realistic “ feel
This is the best type of mission. Its more akin to reality. Another cool idea would be doing something like the india-pakistan campaign but not letting each side know what the other side's objectives are
A properly tense battle. Well done all.
I think Grim Reapers should be obligated to play "Danger Zone" whenever there is an F-14 taking off from a carrier
Great Job GR! Very exciting battle!
Great content like this style.
Mmm, now I've got in my head a Cap-Kortana duet of "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better"
Tense! Terrifying! A real thriller! (And I suppose each group would have a dedicated air combat controller directing them). Still! Excellent! And closer to the real thing than ever! Well done!!!
Really fabulous scenario! Loved this one.
I have no idea what's going on most of the time in these videos, But they're strangely entertaining!
Nato and USN doctrine at the time was that NO less than 4 carriers in a large group could fight and survive in the North Atlantic. Add 3 more carriers to this scenario, and that'll be a much more realistic scenario, as cool as this one was. Also, a Soviet regiment of Naval aviation (Backfires) was 21 to 30ish aircraft, 11 regiments would be 200 to 300 Backfires.
Unfortunately DCS can't really support something on that scale, I've tried. It will only even run at 1/8th speed so that means no human pilots and like an 8hr long video.
The universe provides...
Just finished re-reading Red Storm Rising for like the 1000th time.
go mission Kortana, well done
Cortina, beautiful job of managing the battlefield!
That was brilliant GR team.
I like how features like the moon are included.
rewatched, took notes:
7:00 radar contact
14:45 missiles away
23.20 vampires
24:59 sm2
26:45 OHP down
27:45 CVN CWIS
28:00 cvn hit1
28:50 "dregs"
29:25 rewenge
so, 16 minutes after radar contact, TU22 were able to launch and about 20 minutes from radar contact until the carrier is forced to employ CWIS.
intense.
AWESOME MISSION! Cap, you need to team up with Kortana for more like this!
Exciting! Like watching a Clancy novel!
And eerily so! In all of my testing while fiddling with the setup, the carrier was always sunk, usually along with a solid third of the fleet. It is interesting to see what difference just a handful of humans made in how things played out.
Standby for ACTION!
I like Kortana - She's got all that calm, collectedness that Cap hasn't 😅
*Yes more KORTANA..*
*ALSO..* Can we get some NEW *Canyon Runs* ?????
IDEAS- (and I'm not a Gamer)- 1) Could a single, modern, non-nuke-tipped CARRIER GROUP have shut-down Germany in WWII? 2) Could a single ABRAMS TANK have defeated the Civil War Confederacy?
So for 1, assuming that they had enough fuel and ordnance, a single modern carrier group would have almost certainly been a decisive game changer. Not so sure on number 2. While a tank could have easily turned the tide of a battle, it is hard to imagine that they wouldn't have eventually found a way to disable it.
Yes, for #1 vs Germany WWII, it would be interesting how much effect a modern non-nuked carrier group would have had.. I imagine they could have sent up an escorted AWACS, identified where Hitler & boys were hanging out, then decimated the high command in Berlin, for starters. For the Civil War scenario, (of which I am a buff), the main problem for the Union forces was breaking through Lee's lines. If an Abrams (or other tank) could have punched a solid hole through the Confederate lines say at Fredricksburg or Antietam, the Union could have used it's numeric superiority and stormed Richmond. It came close a number of times to doing that, (bad command leadership often spoiled it). 1860's ordinance would have had a hard time taking out an Abrams.. at least until the Union exploited the major breach.@@KortanaDCS
Have thought about this. At Gettysburg, a single Abrams, with one tank of fuel and a 50-round mix of anti-personnel rounds and some HE, could have bee-lined straight across the fields to Lee's headquarters and potentially taken him out, along with a lot of the Rebel high command. Turning back again, it could have then quickly decimated a good deal of the artillery lines, then turned west again back down the Emmitsburg Road and destroyed most of the critical supply lines and wagons. The Union forces could have easily capitalized on such a dismaying breakthrough enough to overwhelm the Confederates, quite likely once and for all. This is what I think about at night! (-:
Kortana!😁✌ Please create a U.S./Allied SAM/SHORAD corridor, just like when you used to make Russian corridors, this time the boyz will be flying Chinese and Russian planes through Uncle SAM Corridor ;)
Please include several layers of systems, at the beginning older variants, and moving forward it gets increasingly difficult! Please include MANPADS, Avenger Air Defense Systems, C-Ram's, Different variants of NASAMS, IRIS-T's, Iron Dome, and different variants of Patriots! Lol and anything else I maybe forgetting, again please deployed better variants later on and every Corridor Ring layered up with variety of systems! Please have the location at The Great Pyramids with GR Headquarters right next to them as the target!🙏👍
Could be interesting, especially with some of the new assets that CH has made.
@@KortanaDCS thanks😄🙏 would Really love to see Everyone, Yourself, and Cap struggle against your Corridor as it becomes more difficult! Considering how entertaining/difficult you've made them in the past! Yeah shout out to CH for essentially all the weapons systems/Mods! Just really like the idea, think it's certainly different, and I kno your the best person to make it happen!
I vote for Kortana to design and coordinate all future videos!
The F-14 had an outstanding Air to Ground capability. The F-14 got retired due to age and being so maintenance intensive.
That was pretty dang great, guys! I would definitely think the navy would have 2 Hawkeyes up along the threat vectors (north and ene)
It's the naval battle of tom clancy red storm rising. Freaking awesome guys!
Red Storm Rising is a good book. They left too many stories hanging though, like no wrap up on the first Space Ace.
More Kortana please!
Terrific video guys and gals! KORTANA always puts 💯% into her setups and she doesn't miss a single detail! Looking for your guys next "Carrier Command" video where you said you were going to use 2 different human groups and the computer. AND,,,,,,....,.
KORTANA, my heart yearns for you! Your voice sends stimuli throughout my body like Grumpniks alcohol and Simba's candy! Come to me my dear and I will record your voice for ALL TO HEAR YOU AS I DO!
My first poem! Hope I don't cause you guys to be demonetized!😊 Wish I had a gaming computer so I could practice and play and maybe EVENTUALLY become a "GRIM REAPER"!
Interesting if the old nuke air to air were used on bombers
Thank you very much!
Great video
So I'm guessing we are simulating that both Iceland and Norway is taken out of action, and UK is somehow suppressed? Cause having played this scenario countless times in Harpoon, I can't see any other option. If UK was still in, the Low Eastern group is not viable, but the rest is tricky but doable with Norway and Iceland occupied/pacified.
Good run, though :)
I'd love to see a completely blind scenario. Have someone outside of the group put everything together, give you guys just the basics - era what you're flying/on and roughly where in the world you are and go. So today you'd have known it's the 80's you're on an american carrier in the middle of the atlantic and the cold war has gone hot. See how that goes.
This was good. Something like this again with the 64 and the F15E. Would be pretty cool.
Great to see Kortana back (hopefully on the regular.) Does she have a military or defence professional background, if she's happy to disclose? Certainly you can get that level of knowledge as an amateur, but she seems proficient and practiced with it, like Matrix.
Either way, this was a great scenario. BZ to all involved.
That got pretty tense!
Fantastic! Great fun
Great vid!
if 500mile engagements sound like a nightmare, imagine 1000 mile engagements against ultra long range ASBMs such as DF21ds and air launched YJ21s.
Long time view, first time comment, amazing vid. Thanks for all the effort!
Just a heads up youtube unsubscribed me. I've been watching your vids for the past 2 years or so. Your story telling, directing, and visuals get better every month. Keep it up.
Great video! Would love to see a similar battle but with 2020s assets!
Great video! I do miss the tactical sub game though...
Why doesn't the SU 24 have any fighter escort support.
So the Su-24's were just a stand in for older missiles being used as decoys. I had them programmed to just fly straight ahead on full burner until they ran out of fuel.