Yesterday, after participating in part of a game of Shadow The Boomer, I watched Freek and Herman as they played Dawn Patrol, remade with the community's favourite database, the Players DB.

 

I've never spectated a game before and it was certainly interesting. I've learnt not to trust my radar 100%.

 

Herman played Norway, Freek the Russians.

 

There was the initial poking around in the dark, until Freek got up to and sunk a Norwegian PTM.

 

Herman was close to a Russian corvette and launched- too close. The corvette was closer than minimum range, so the missile sailed over it- and headed for another Norwegian. That and three "Sirens", sunk it.

 

This incident would happen again, to much hilarity on my part.

 

There were also times when ships passed close to each other without spotting each other. Must be the fog.

 

Eventually Herman sunk all the corvettes, having pulled his frigate out of harm's way.

 

Thanks to Freek for hosting the server and Herman for a great game.

Excellent report, SH. Thanks.

 

I was the Norwegian side and I sent my ships out to find the Russians. We were on EmCon since I hoped that a visual sighting would be to my advantage. Soon enough, one boat bumped into a Nanuchka and opened fire with her guns and SSMs. The problem was, she didn't have a perfect location on the target for her missiles. They promptly overflew the intended target and activated past her.

 

And found one of my other missile boats! Blue-on-Blue. What a way to die.

 

Not long afterwards, a second boat bumped into a Russian and the same result. She fired, but this time, the Russkie managed to let loose with his SS-N-9 Sirens and I lost 3 boats to his one.

 

With only a corvette and one missile boat remaining, I had to be careful. Loss of the corvette would mean loss of the scenario. So, I took her out of harm's way and searched with the Hugin missile boat.

 

After a few hours, I found the remaining Nanuchka "hiding" behind the stern of a fishing trawler. The sneaky bugger was using the fishermen as a shield; knowing that I couldn't fire SSMs at him without risking a killing blow to the Neutrals. Luckily, I was already within gun range and promptly poured fire into his surprised ship thereby sinking it.

 

A great and fun scen. Thanks for the Game and use of the server, Freek.