I watched this last week.
Totally unrealistic, waste of time gaming.
No subs either side, even the approach, China sent a battle group of what? 1 carrier and 4 or 5 frigates? It's not even funny how stupid the scenario is.
I watched it as well.
Even assuming that the YJ-18 has the performance displayed in the ‘simulation’, the defenders engaged rather late considering that AEW&C aircraft were airborne.
No EW from the Growlers, plus the Super Hornets would have probably been better off tasked with anti-shipping.
The airgroups from both sides also flew dumb, no co-ordination, which is presumably a limitation of the either the engine or the programming of the scenario. Speaking of the scenario, how did a small PLAN battle group get 200nm off the coast of Darwin?
I was also slightly confused by using Ticondaroga class cruisers with SPY-1A/B as analogues for the Hobart class, yet using Arleigh Burke Class as analogues for the ANZAC class rather than something possibly more representative.