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From: pss4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul S Shannon)
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Subject: Re: harpoon
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In article <73794@brunix.UUCP> omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
>In article <1991Apr28.225341.13085@midway.uchicago.edu> hui@rainbow.uchicago.edu writes:
>>
>>    In harpoon, when run away from incoming missles or topedos, should one
>>turn the active sensor off so they may lost track of you, why computer
>>always ask you to turn sensors on?
>
>This may be because the anti-missile system needs the sensors to track the
>missiles.  However, I have one problem, when you've found an enemy position,
>and the unit that detects it is shot down, you lose that enemy altogether.
>
>I would think that 1) you'd be better able to track it from different
>sensor stations, since it's position is currently known, some adjustment
>should be made for this and 2) you should continue to be able to "attack"
>it (i.e. it should remain on the board of detected enemy positions).
>
>what happens is my scout aircraft blunders upon a strong enemy ship position
>and, after radioing back its position, gets itself shot down.  Now, it's like
>I've never found the ships.  Now, I know that it's there - shouldn't the
>program keep it on it's discovered list?  Also, I should be able to send out
>aircraft to attack it.  When I do send out other planes, they usually don't
>detect it until they're right on top of it and get shot down.  How far can
>surface ships go in a couple of minutes?
>
>-Owen
>.
>
>Owen Hartnett				omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET
>Brown University Computer Science	omh@cs.brown.edu
>					uunet!brunix!omh
>"Don't wait up for me tonight because I won't be home for a month."

This doesn't eliminate the problem of losing where the enemy units are,
but you can attack them by sending up a patrol.  You'll probably have
to turn on your radars to find them again.

Does everyone's subs get massacred very quickly, or am I an incompetent
sub commander?  I find the attack on the Kola peninsula, and the Boomer
hunting scenarios extremely difficult.  Also, the USSR defense against
the Carrier Battle Group seems just about impossible, since the F-14s
shoot down your attack planes before they can find the Nato force, and
the Mainstays have no surface search radar (this totally sucks, and I sort
pity the Soviet commander that has to find a ship).

How are the other battle sets?  Does the computer become a better
tactician?



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