Your enemy is based at Red Base, and your mission is to close the base. You know the Red side has the following available:

The terrain is fairly interesting, you're in southern Algeria in the area of the Tassili N'Ajjer National Park and these are the Hoggar Mountains. It looks like a spectacular place to visit, but in the interest of game play I've plotted a couple geological markers with some easy to reference names.

Your Forces are modern Chinese aircraft and weapons. There is a good mix of capabilities but as any, they have limitations:

Scenario Run-through #1

This won't take long. Simply launch your 4 Badgers, fling your cruise missiles at the base and see what happens. You could try plotting courses for your missiles to see if that helps.

You will probably note that of the 16 missiles, one or two will hit the base. You will probably also note that many of the SA-10 missiles go blind and lose track. This is because the YJ-63 has the ability to terrain follow, an excellent advantage which many older cruise missiles don't have.

All in all, the attack is likely to be a failure. Cruise missiles on their own will have a very difficult time inflicting significant damage on a target unless you have enough to saturate all defenses and hit hard. In this case you would need at least 4 times as many missiles as you have.

Now reload the scenario and let's do this properly!

Scenario Run-through #2

In this run we will use all the aircraft, and just for sport, we won't use missions for the attack. Feel free to set up missions for your AWACS, ESM and EW aircraft, then launch the rest in groups. You've got plenty of fuel so no harm in having aircraft loiter a bit. I won't talk you through every move, there are just too many options but will suggest the following:

Now reload the game and let's do this with a bit of a challenge!

Scenario Run-through #3

Now it is very unlikely that you will have strategic bombers along for a tactical strike like this, so do the same again but leave the bombers parked.