Sacred Oil

SCENARIO #1

TURN 1

PLAY #2

Soviet subs manoeuvre in an arc in LOC designation Indian 9 to have the best chance of intercepting the fast-steaming Battle Group Bravo. Led by CV-63 Kitty Hawk.

Soviet intel picks up a position and relays to K-184 [Intel det roll success.] She rolls 19 for her Intercept and now has DET level 2 [1 for AGI, 1 for the successful intercept]

She elects to use ASW only no missiles, stay as stealthy as possible. She closes in.

With tubes loaded and now launched alarms ring across BG-Bravo. Fletcher is in the outer TF ring sector and fires their ASW weapons [no intercept required]. Fletchers fire control teams miss and blow through a lot of ammo [rolling a 5 drops asw ammo to ½ reducing FP by 50%.]

The Inner sector now combines its ASW combat power and fires with a strength of 7. Rolling a 17. But this drops for the K-184s toughness [defense value] which yields a -2 DRM and -6 for Det level 0. Dropping the roll to a 9 – but it is just a hit! K-184 is flipped and she continues in. [At this point an option to abort would have been nice as we will see!]

I was advised that this play flow is wrong. The ATTACKING sub gets to attack its TARGET sector before the TARGET sector gets to fire. So it would have ahd teh opportunity to attack and selects  the Texas rolls a 7 with a Firepower of 2 and misses, no need to count the extraneous DRMs. a miss is a miss. Its Detection level now goes up 1. to 1.

In the Core sector CV-63, Texas and Bradley combine and fire with 10 ASW and roll an 18 -5 [flipped toughness is lower] and cause a hit. Sinking K-184 with all hands. Somewhere Davy Jones is rubbing his hands with glee.

K-87 now goes through the same exercise but they receive no AGI bonus and fail 2 Intercept rolls spending their 12 movement points.

K-175 receives intel but still manages to miss finding TF-14…Go to Gulag.

It comes down to the last SSN and ASW Warhammer of a sub. She also fails to get any actionable intel but closes in anyway and intercepts just barely with a 17 -4 [2 for LOC 2 for det level] Gaining a DET level 1. They target the Texas CGN

But first they must survive the rings of death. Fletcher only has a 3 FP and he misses with -9 on the die roll [-6 for ASW at DET 0 and -3 for toughness].

The Inner ring does better with its combined strength but only manages a die roll of 8. Missing also.

Here once again we FUBAR the rules. I guess I really cant read worth a damn can I.

Rules aside.

Here are the rules.

Does not look that hard. But I sure am making it hard somehow. So there’s that. We will leave the attackers below result as is, as the net result would be the same. Even for the USN attack on the Sub the difference in Det 0 and 1 is a -2. This bumps the Core Sectors result from an 11 to a 13 as far as I can tell. That on the 8 column [as the Texas is now reduced ] is fortunately for them still a 1 result. If it had been 10 factors – BOOM sunk.

The Kitty Hawk, Texas and Bradley all target and co ordinate their fire. With a 20! -9  [-6 for ASW at DET 0 and -3 for toughness] they inflict a hit. This flips the K-412 who now attacks at reduced strength [I hope that is correct].

They fire with a strength of 4. -4 for Det level and -4 for toughness! They too roll a 20! [ Its like my own personal VASSAL die roller! ] 1 hit. Texas takes on water and lists to port.

Bucu VP for the Soviets!

K-412 circles back around for another bite at the cherry but cannot now locate BG Bravo.

END NAVAL ACTION FOR TURN #1.