With risks of spoiling the scenario...


I would have your planes fly closer to the germany/poland border away from the SA-10 hot spots in Kaliningrad altogether. Using this method, you don't even need to use any SEAD to bypass the SA-2 and SA-3s that are guarding this area. Remember SA-2s can't shoot at anything that are at low altitude. This saves the HARMs for suppression of defences that might be guarding the bridges. You should find it easier if you use this method.

The trouble is, this all depends upon what you as the scenario author knows. I reviewed my tactics and headed for the coast by a circuitous route. I aimed for the two SA-10 batteries near Niveskoye. This seemed a good place to cross the coast. The Harms opened up on the batteries. All good so far. This triggered the Slava to light up, which promptly fired on my F-111. I sensibly dropped to minimum altitude and all F-111 were shot down, pretty much immediately.

It works if you restart until you find the best approach method, but realistically if you blunder into an SA-10 or a Slava you've had it. In a way that's down to the intelligence briefing. It mentions there might be SA-10 (there's a lot) and that there might be sea based defences. To be fair the player will soon find out that there's a lot stacked up against them. Not sure I expected quite as much on the initial attempts.

You might want to review your tactics. I could get my aircraft in and destroy all the bridges in most attempts, and in one attempt not even losing any aircraft. In all attempts the aircraft would be chased out of Poland by interceptors into Sweden, where the interceptors would be shot down by Swedish Aircraft. Play through it a few more times and see what works and what doesn't. I will review the issue with the bridges.

Interesting scenario but tough to be honest. I can get across the coast but that's generally about as far as my SEAD aircraft will get me. The run in on the targets is then a massacre. I lost pretty much all aircraft and didn't even drop a bomb. I think the only thing that needed looking at, was the targets are repeated , i think there are two Charlies?