so it might be a skill issue on my end, but i cannot seem to stop the 2 contacts (presumably B52s?) from the NE of the group from launching an ungodly amount of harpoons. no matter what I do the first wave of phantoms gets close enough to ID the landing group and the AWACS maintain the contact and guides in the missiles. with the air launched harpoons having 120nm range now there is really no way to stop them especially given the short range of the yak38s.

... or am I high and there is a sub somewhere maintaining the contact?

i did manage to finish mission 5 after a few tries... just rolled RNG enough so that the first wave of shipwrecks killed the tico and the carrier rolled a death with 2 hits.

@Artruis there is not a sub in mission 14. 2 B52's was definetly a little much, i'll reduce it to 1 when I get a chance and see how that goes. As for mission 5, I'm gonna have to play around with the updated ships to better understand their balancing. Might just remove the tico as a temp fix.