1st battle

[swimsalot]

I will battle driftwood on Jan 6th at 1200 noon PDT. I will update here as soon as dive is over. Launch the SAR helo now, he'll be the guy in the little yellow raft.
Swims

[Piervit]

Good luck!
I am sure you will send him to the bottom

[TLAM Strike]

Good hunting!

[swimsalot]

Well, he didn't die.
Fired all my torps, on replay all but 1 dropped within 1nm of him, but he was >1500 feet deep. I had half set for below layer ~800 feet, half above layer. The new CM doctrine means that the torp will loose ctc if it sees a CM, and if you cant steer it back, it will wander off...
2 torps followed him and avoided the CM's, but didnt hit, Im assuming because he was too deep for the settings on the torp.
I had him tracked on active dicass for about an hour, VLAD only heard him 1 or 2 times, even VLAD deep at 1200 feet.
Good mission, but he did get away.
sorry guys.
I enclosed the re if ya wanna watch.

[TLAM Strike]

Swim what was he driving? According to a recent post by ML next turn we might not be able to attack those LCACs (they don't move until the move phase of the turn after they deploy) so we could send you after him again by ASW sweaping F5 and F4.

[JoGary]

Sure i seen him post somewhere he was in the Seawolf?
Would be worth another go to get their SW :arms:
Good try Swims. Yeh the LWAMI doctrin makes it harder now.
btw what version of DW did u use. I thought it was 1.01+hf +LWAMI we where using? If so then no need to worry about lyer to much.

[swimsalot]

Yes he's in the SW, they have alot of CM's lol.
You're right JG, the layer isn['t as much of an issue, buty detection ranges are different. The whole time, I never really had a passive contact, even though he was less than 1nm from VLAD Deep and Shallow.
Looks like active hunting may be the way to prosecute these guys.
Since I knew exactly where he was, can I relay that info to my fleet, get another SSN out there? Would be rather nice to drop an ASROC or 4 on his head!

[swimsalot]

Oh, and since I have a feel for the ops area now, can I take the other P3 out for the subhunt?
Even better, let's coop, would be nice to have 1 guy fly and 1 guy senso.
I felt my bouy loadout was perfect
(28 VLAD S, 10 VLAD D, 27 DICASS S, 7 DICASS D).
Let me know guys, I think a 2 person P3 will be tuff to beat.

[TLAM Strike]

I think the best plan is to use 2 P-3s and 1 MH-60R to search half his possable destnations. MH-60R to F4, P3 to F5 and E4.Two MH-60Rs will be on Alert 5 as back up.

[JoGary]

Not sure you can be used as a sub in the other P3 as you have been in battle this turn. I think but not sure that TLAM was going to sub for other P3? We have to be carfull with using a Helo to hunt a sub as they very easy to shoot down. I would only put officers in the P3s and leavr the Helos on AI. As if a officer that is subbing in on a Helo gets shot down we have to rescue him before we can get him back and that could prove near impossable close to enemy base.

Edit: Oh and if we did coop then if we lost the P3 then we would lose both players. But i sure Malon said that as long as we are in control of our own platforms we can assign a outsider to help in any stations we wanted. Like you could ask some one not yet involved in the GTO to be part of your crew. I sure he said we can use anyone as crew?

[TLAM Strike]

I havn't been in battle this turn... :confused:

Don't worry about the helos, check the map and you will see if the MH-60 detects a Sub it has two MH-60s as back up and both P-3s. If the Helos stay at 4000-5000 ASL and stick to dropping bouys & acting as bouy processors they should be safe. Plus the MH-60s can pick up anyone whos takes a swim. AI MH-60Rs are useless. Besides with that many ACs up top would you try to shoot SAMs? A few helos can have AGM-119Bs and the P-3s got Mavpoons to deter any surface activity.

I have no clue about having outsiders as crew. I've never really thought about it since I can generaly handle a platform by my self.

Also next turn I want one P-3 to shoot a bunch of SLAM-ERs (7) across the path of the enemies' Canal fleet. Get them to waste some SM-2s. :wink:

[Molon Labe]

JoGary,

Substitutes aren't "aboard" the platform, so they don't need to be rescued.

[JoGary]

Substitutes aren't "aboard" the platform, so they don't need to be rescued.
Oh, right, That good to know. I can fly a Helo now if you want :wink: