DarkNite

I managed to destroy the Spratley port facility and Guangzhou East in the first day. Had a few losses from surprise Flanker patrols but have kept my airfields intact. Lost a Japanese frigate to grounding and the Tico CG Chosin to what I think was a mine. Killed 5 subs thus far as well with no losses to them. Spoiler The Guangzhou East attack was a coup de main using a pair of P-8s and EP-3s and the 4 B-1Bs out of Anderson. The EP-3s gathered an electronic OOB of the Guangzhou East air base and determined their defenses were weak to the south and west - just a couple of isolated SA-2 batteries and radar facilities. The P-8s managed to make a hole in this weak coverage with SLAM-ERs and were followed up by the B-1's massive JASSM strike. The JASSMs made it to within 7 miles of the airfield before they started taking losses. Even then, less than 40 of 96 hit but it was enough to destroy the place!

That's true, but given current data I'd put our passive sonar's ability to locate a PLAN SSK significantly beyond their passive sonar's ability to locate our SSN. Not that it would be easy... BTW, anybody else thinking we should bring the S-3s back? DN

Point taken. I think it's time we start tailing their SSKs with our SSNs and at some point during the tailing cook them a bit with active sonar to remind them we have hunters, too. DN

That PLAN CV is going to make a nice periscope pic as it goes down someday.

File Name: Northern Forge File Submitter: DarkNite File Submitted: 16 Oct 2008 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB080824 Authors: Christopher Stoner Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 A large scale NATO naval exercise being held in the Norweigian & North Seas. Click here to download this file

* HMS Albion (L14) * HMS Bulwark (L15)

Tricky! I assume I could get away with a two-color black/white .tif for land and sea at present? DN

I assume the pic has to be the same dimensions to maintain scale? I tried to open it in GIMP and it said it had 16 layers. Is there more than just land and sea colors in that pic? DN

Can I use a different elevation.tif file to achieve different land masses or resolution? DN

Tony - Does the coastline 'resolution' differ depending on the size of battleset created with the Battleset Builder? IE, will the coastline be more 'jagged' at finer zoom values for a larger map area than a smaller one? DN

A little more on the LRLAP rounds. You can fire them BOL as well. They'll adopt guidance and home on intervening targets. I looked at her a bit in the platform editor and she's got a RCS of 75. That compares to 80 for the LCS, 95 for the F-117, 73 for the B-2 and 85 for the F-22. One thing that puzzles me is that other modern LO ships like the Swedish Visby (RCS=180), Israeli Sa'ar 5 (RCS = 188) and French La Fayette (RCS=186) are significantly less stealthy than the US designs. In fact they don't seem significantly less in RCS than other vessels of similar size - at least to the degree the Zumwalt and LCS are. Any thoughts there? Thanks! DN

I put the Zumwalt through a few tests to check her sea legs using HCDB-080326 which generated a few observations: o Why a max cruise speed of 18 kts instead of 19 kts? Is this associated with her drive-type? o Why are the 155mm/62 AGS LRLAP rounds modeled as missiles? o Why does the 57mm/70 Mk110 ppq mount have 16 bursts but the 57mm/70 M110 ssq mount have 255 bursts? o The game allows me to use gunfire against a target for which I had a bearing-only, area detection (using sonar). I did not hit while the detection box was big but did when it became near-exact. o She's very stealthy. Thanks, Brad! DN

Whoops! I used the wrong conversion on the Strategy Page figure - 25km = 13.5nm. DN

I share your pain, Brad. I'm a long-time Harpoon gamer (paper and computer) and had to extrapolate and modify many a time. Thanks for you hard work!