Black Sea Gambit Campaign

[pumaa]

BSG - Black Sea Gambit Campaign for DW - Reinforce Alert >=v1.51 by Puma

Mission 1 - Black Sea Gambit - 01 Sea Dagger & Defender v1.01 - Download

Controllable: Ka-27PL or Be-12 318th separate mixed aviation regiment from Kacha Air Base.

Difficulty: ****

Custom audio files are used in this mission.



This is the my first mission of the larger "Black Sea Gambit Campaign" (BSG), which will include more interesting missions in the future. I am already working on the head mission and you can look forward to a tactically very complex mission that will feature two Project 636.3 Black Sea Fleet controllable submarines - B-237 Rostov-on-Don and B-268 Velikiy Novgorod and the anti-submarine corvette Project 1124M 064 Muromets. On the adversary side of the naval task grouping, the Walrus and Todaro class controllable submarines will be available, and among the ships will be the multipurpose frigate FREMM Luigi Rizzo (F595). In this one dynamic and tactically complex mission, there will realistically be 6 missions available. The situation will take place February 2022 and will of course be purely fictional, but with an emphasis on maximum tactical and technical plausibility.

This will be the main mission of the Black Sea Gambit campaign, but it will be preceded by another mission. "Bouncing" the crew of the B-237 Rostov-on-Don to the Russian naval port of Tartus, Syria, to the B-265 Krasnodar submarine, which will take part in the Russian naval exercise against the exercise "Tri-Carrier Operations" in the Eastern Mediterranean in late January 2022, and how that turns out - whether you return to the base in Tartus with empty or full torpedo tubes, whether you return at all, will be your choice. Of course, you will be able to play for the other side as well.

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Black Sea Gambit - Sea Dagger & Defender. Summer 2021.

Side mission (first) - Naval incident with HMS Defender (D36).
Your mission is to locate and escort the Defender, you will follow the orders of the Naval High Command, which takes command of the entire operation in accordance with the Commander-in-Chief's decision, opening direct fire is strictly prohibited! For most of the Defender's route in territorial waters, stay away from it within a radius of no more than 0.3 nmi (Ka-27PL) to 0.9 nmi (Be-12).

Main mission (second) - Sea Dagger:
Air Base Commander: You have a new mission! Naval Intelligence reports that yesterday afternoon, prior to the Defender and Evertsen's evening departure from Odessa, a local fishing boat crew reported to the police station in Olenivka that they had seen what appeared to be a Orca whale 15m below the surface with their own eyes and on sonar near Karadj Bay. The police officers told them that it was a good joke, but not to drink so much next time at sea. This morning they were urgently questioned by the FSB in response to the Defender actions, we have verified that they are credible sailors with a military history. Naval Intelligence in light of today's provocation by the British Defender, is requesting that the Black Sea Fleet's anti-submarine naval aviation immediately conduct an extraordinary large-scale underwater reconnaissance of the entire area of the western coast of Crimea, it is possible that this entire Defender operation was intended to divert our attention away from the western coast of Crimea. Let's get to work!

The assignment: Probably one to several Sea Dagger special operations mini-submarines of the British and US navies sailing with combat swimmers to conduct a reconnaissance or diversionary operation against strategic military installations on the western coast of Crimea, including the Black Sea Fleet's military port of Sevastopol.

Probable directions of departure - ports of Odessa or Constanta.

If found, destroy immediately!

Given your just completed mission Commander, the decision to return to base is yours. If you have enough fuel, proceed at your own discretion.

Recommended armament for Ka-27PL: 2x APR-2E, 1x PLAB-250. Sonobuoys: 8x RGB-55/A - 20m (directional passive/active), 4x RGB-55/A - 200m, 4x RGB-25 - 20m (directional passive), 6x VLF OMNI RGB-75 - 100m (passive directional very low frequency analysis), 3x Bathythermograph (detection of water temperature changes depending on depth). If necessary, resupply weapons and fuel at Kacha Air Base.

All situations in this mission are purely fictitious, although the route of HMS Defender (D36) and HNLMS Evertsen (F805) was created as faithfully as possible according to available public materials, I also use parts of the published original audio recording of radio communication between the Russian Navy and the crew of HMS Defender.

If you get tired of the non-dynamic Defender mission and want to quickly jump to a dynamic mission and hunt Sea Daggers, just fly over the port of Sevastopol within 5 minutes of launch.

In the README text file you will also find Czech and Russian descriptions.

[Aktungbby]

Pumaa! great first post!

[pumaa]

Thanks. I will be glad for feedback.

[rentacow]

Awesome! Looking forward to giving this one a try this weekend! I'll let you know how it goes!

[Stewy1]

Looks really interesting - congrats man. Will take a look on the weekend.

Stew

[pumaa]

Thanks,
I tried to make the situation on the west coast of Crimea tactically different with each mission launch, to not be it possible to used past experience and templates, but it was mainly about ingenuity and skill. The area where Sea Daggers can appear is relatively large, it won't be easy to find them, with datalink on and a by chance and luck it's a bit easier, but with datalink off without information from other platforms it's perhaps very difficult.

There is a little bonus built into the mission that may or may not be there. It doesn't count towards successfully completing the mission though. This one is for those who still don't feel like going to the bar to get a beer after completing the mission and landing at Kacha Air Base to see Katya from Hunter Shark - 2 who led the underwater reconnaissance from Donuzlav Bay to Karadj Bay.


New version Black Sea Gambit - 01 Sea Dagger v1.01 - link

Mainly I've dealt with the fact that uncontrollable helicopters don't want to land at airports and hanging near it in the air, I've tried it with ships and they land just fine. I guess it's a bug, so I had to solve it differently. Also, a couple of triggers and the one about successful mission completion have been adjusted and increased operational depth of the Sea Daggers.