Talk:AFOH/@comment-24142455-20141017233247/@comment-14850713-20141018184634

OOC: Just to tidy it up a bit before I go...

The 1AF comes under air and missile attack. The IRF jets scream in but pull up at the last instant to avoid AA fire. Then the MCMs arrive. Despite putting up heavy flack, including "beehive" shells that dispense IR-homing skeets, every ship is hit. Most of the escorting Revanche and Themis ships are heavily damaged, and 2 of the latter go down in flames. With most of their planes gone (400 out of 600 in the second wave were shot down) and unable to take in replacement squadrons due to the missile attack, 1AF is forced to withdraw.

Meanwhile, as the IRF surface fleet contracts its perimeter with the loss of many of its escorts, 3 AFOH destroyer squadrons circle just beyond gun range. Each is composed of 6 Suffren- class (armed with multiple radar-guided Mk45s and torpedoes) and 6 Turmensius- class (armed with Harpoon anti-ship missiles and Phalanx CIWS) destroyers. The faces on their skippers were grim. They know that the strongest IRF ships are still fully operational, and many of them and ther submarine comrades will die before these are destroyed.

OOC: The aircraft kill ratio is 10-1 in favor of the IRF. Enterprise admitted to 100 jets shot down while we admit to 1000 (600 in the 1st wave and 400 in the 2nd). While this may still be unrealistic, let's just say that most of IRF jets were taken down by the "air bursting" Cobra I. Now it's my turn to go.