My pleasure, DD.
After Action Report: Desert Victory Part 3, Sunday June 3rd 2001To read the scenario writeup, click
hereThis event was the continuation of the Desert Victory series. The writeups and AAR's of the previous two parts can be read here:
Part 1 and
Part 2 BackgroundIn the last frame, the axis managaged to establish a foothold in North Africa, having driven the allies off the mediterranean islands before that.
Here is the situation at the event start:
The event itself was a 2-hour field capture contest, with re-plane windows every 30 minutes. Between those, only M3's, M16's and C47's were available. If a field was captured, it was closed from flight operations for the remainder of the event.
ScoringFighter kills: 10 points each.
Bomber (B17, B26, Ju88) kills: 20 points each.
Small field captures: 100 points each.
Medium field captures: 200 points each.
Large field captures: 300 points each.
No points are awarded for C47 or vehicle kills.
No points are awarded for capturing vehicle- or neutral (rook) fields.
Event time lineT+0 ... T+10. (Numbers: 26 allies, 21 axis)With both teams briefed and ready, the fields were opened and the forces unleashed. As expected, Hblair lead his axis pilots to a massive Focke Wulf jabo-raid attack from A9, heading west to A5. Vasco's Spits and Typhoons took off from A6 and headed to A9.
Since enemy radar was completely off, each side didn't have a clue where the enemy was. The attack groups missed each other very narrowly, just outside of dot range. This can be seen from the following picture, taken at T+10:
T+20 ... T+30. (Numbers: 28 allies, 28 axis)At T+20, both sides had reached their targets:
A few seconds later the allied strike force had turned A9 into rubble, although suffering great losses in the process:
Meanwhile, the Axis jabos had finished their work on A5:
While the allied jabos had made almost perfect job in destroying the facilites at A9, they forgot one key element: the vehicle hangar. Now that the axis were alerted, AAA vehicles spawned to the field and defended it valiantly from allied capture. This was to be a costly mistake from the Allies.
The axis didn't fall into the same trap and A5 fell into axis hands at T+25.
T+30 ... T+60. (Numbers: 25 allies, 25 axis)With the fields re-opened at T+30, each side regrouped for another attack.
With both A5 and A9 having all aircraft hangars destroyed, the axis forces were split up. The survivors of the A5 attack refueled there as the rest took off from bases in the mediterranean islands.
The allies took off again from the bases around Tunis.
At around T+50 the forces clashed in the A5-A6 area. Both sides took heavy losses, but the allies got the worst of it. As we know, this decided the outcome of the event.
