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Originally Posted by Suhiir
The real surprise ... no not surprise ... shocked amazement was when not one but both B-52's managed to drop their loads exactly where they'd do the most good. They easily caused 20%+ of the ISIS casualties between them and broke the main attack up so badly that as the units rallied and trickled into my defensive positions it was a classic turkey shoot. As much as I hate to do so I have to give credit where it's due. Hats off to the US Air Force!
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Interesting. In scenario #77 --Marines Return to North Korea, by CB Blackard--a B-1 bomber dropped its load of 84 500-lb gravity bombs along a trenchline which might've caused 10-15 casualties among dug-in infantry. In the same scenario a dozen Harriers, Tomcats and Hornets took out about 30 hard and soft targets, including dug-in tanks, bunkers, flak and a SAM battery, without a single blue-on-blue incident. Really quite astonishing.
Got some saves to commemorate the action. Thought I'd write another AAR but in order to win a DV had to do some gamey stuff with helos (like landing on rough terrain or slopes, sometimes adjacent to neutralized bad guys, and picking up non-formation infantry willy-nilly to insert near ground-inaccessible objectives while flying carelessly over enemy-held sectors). Plus--SPOILER ALERT!!--it's a bit one-sided since the Nokors have no thermal MBTs or ATGMs until near the end. Still pretty hairy though; needed deep penetration by M1A1s firing long-range to beat off armored counterattacks against mostly light infantry out on the proverbial limb.