Wednesday, September 08, 2010
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The main focus of the 62nd Fighting Falcons is flying in an ongoing, cooperative, campaign setting.  At each month's meeting, we advance the campaign progress and report on the results.

For our current operations using Falcon 4:Allied Force we have adopted an approach whereby we leave the enemy under AI control, but take direct control over all friendly air and (to a large extent) ground operations.  Our goal is to use as little AI as possible, and undertake all missions and roles personally.  To aid in this we have chosen Iron Fortress as the most compact of the Falcon 4 campaign settings.

To date we have limited AI air operations to AWACS and JSTARS, plus chopper recon flights, and the occasional BARCAP to cover things while we undertake longer-range strikes.

The reports from the meetings are available below.

The main focus of the 62nd Fighting Falcons is flying in an ongoing, cooperative, campaign setting.  At each month's meeting, we advance the campaign progress and report on the results.

For our current operations using Falcon 4:Allied Force we have adopted an approach whereby we leave the enemy under AI control, but take direct control over all friendly air and (to a large extent) ground operations.  Our goal is to use as little AI as possible, and undertake all missions and roles personally.  To aid in this we have chosen Iron Fortress as the most compact of the Falcon 4 campaign settings.

To date we have limited AI air operations to AWACS and JSTARS, plus chopper recon flights, and the occasional BARCAP to cover things while we undertake longer-range strikes.

The reports from the meetings are available below.


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With China in the war, the battle for control of the airspace over Korea became ugly.  Most missions would see us faced with multiple incoming enemy, with reinforcements coming behind them.  It was a rare case when we could actually reach our targets with our ordnance still aboard.  Often it was all we could do just to survive.  All too frequently we could not even manage that!

Despite this horrendous pressure, we continued to give worse than we got, keeping losses at least equal on both sides, and usually weighted in our favour.  With our ground troops continuing to push north, and with minimal friendly AI flights, our resupply rate consistently exceeded our losses, so we could afford the exchanges.

As our ground troops stripped away resources, the DPRK struggled with supply.  The initial wave of Chinese reinforcements was not followed up, and we began to wear down their air forces. 

Our initial tactic of encirclement and destruction of the DPRK ground forces would also prove to be decisive.  The Chinese brought no new ground units to the theatre, and we had fatally weakened the opposition on the ground.  It was not until our troops had entered Seoul that we started to encounter any serious opposition.

Likewise, our troops on the east coast found nothing to oppose their advance.  What few units remained ahead of them melted away in the face of our air strikes.  When the leading unit (an MLRS artillery battalion, of all things), reached Wonson, high commander Morrison wisely directed the unit to proceed to secure the civilian areas of the city rather than the apparently more strategically-important airbase.  This proved the final decisive blow to the DPRK regime's fragile support.  The sudden and involuntary retirement of the DPRK high command, and their replacement by younger and more moderate officers, was rapidly followed by offers for negotiations and an end to hostilities.

The final blows in the war were struck by our OCA mission, with the cease-fire coming into force even as we were beginning our attack run.

 
The last man comes off-target, on the last mission of the campaign.

The final position, on Day 4, at 1145 was:

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