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Well i think the MEU stuff started in 92 but may have been earlier.....my memory is kinda bad from meds and being ill but check with anybody on the TR and theyll tell ya we had the MEU on board for at least three deployments again i dont know if it continued after 93-94 as all my buddies were eaos/pcs after that. nothin like workin 18 and 6 and goin to chow and findin 500 marines in line.... ya gotta love it...... we took them to FT Lauderdale / ST Thomas and a show for the Indian CNO cheers Joe

I was on the TR from 05/90 to 07/92 we were the lucky first for the MEU and gator freighters can't keep up with CVBG (not for long anyway)also the "lucky first" for gals on board also........anyhoo i was part of "A" gang so at least the Jarheads never had hot water....well at least it was either brrrr cold or steam.... i believe the MEU thingy became standard practice after that but could be wrong as i didn't keep in touch with anyone one the TR after 94....but we did drop the most tonnage of "presents" for Mr Saddam! cheers ,Joe

I was on the TR and we had only room in the hanger deck for 20 AC as we had an MEU on board....since their stuff took up room.... we were the first CVN to use this MEU attachment....(wooohoooo 800 Jarheads with nothing to do but stand in line for chow !@#!@##!$$!!@!#@#) anyhoo i believe this is now SOP for CVBG so this will reduce hanger volume but remeber most AC are on the flight deck anyway.....there are pad eyes on the flight deck for foul weather..... just my 1 1/2 cents cheers Joe

Am re-doin my MOB scen and have another 2 goin on in my skull...one forced passage at Gibrltar by US CVBG and another EU vs US after crazy man takes over the white house..... E.T.A......maybe this month(barring any week long benders like the last one!!!) will try to make them more challanging for blue but in my warped mind bigger is better so both will be monsters....aaarrrrghhhh! anyhoo will try to increase my productivity and make more scens... cheers, Joe aka Gdtrfb aka vanilla thunder aka monster scen builder P.S also would like to say if my dunce self can make a working scen then ANYBODY can do it!!! P.P.S The help and support that Brad and Tony gave me was awesome!!!!

Outstanding!!......Bravo Zulu...... wish i had some artistic talent (sigh) cheers Joe

Well i'm interested but am still learning the ropes......but i think that after a couple more attempts i may have a scenario worth something..... anyhoo i'm in like flynn Joe

Thanx for your breakdown.....in hindsight i probably shoulda gave blue only 2 CVN's and 2 less Aegis ships but wat the hay... learned some things for the next time...!i would welcome your input on a scen involving a US transit of Gib with the EU/SOVs opposing circa 2008 after this georgia situation erupts into global war....unrealistic but thats what games are for.....was thinking maybe a staged chem attack to get the world against the US...i dunno rambling here...anyhoo if ya have any thoughts for this next one lemme know as you were invaluable in helping with the first one cheers Herman Joe

Well Herman thanx for your help on this scen if you had played as Blue i think it would have been a little bit harder . It does say in the briefing Blue only and there is a Herman tribute in the blue orders but thanx for checkin it out anyway

File Name: MOB File Submitter: Gdtrfb File Submitted: 7 Aug 2008 File Category: WestPac DB Used: westpac Authors: Gdtrfb Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac Blue only......monster stuff my first time so be gentle with the heckling P.s dont use the CALCM loadout for the -52's please give me some feedback as this was my first scenario wondering if i should make a second Click here to download this file

I'm almost done now...i think!!!...i can guarantee that it wont be a cakewalk this time..blue has its work cut out.... anyhoo pm me if you feel like being lab rat again...lol Joe

Well i'm going to dust off the scenario from hell i was working on and see what happens.....sound cool? be prepared for some <bleep> questions! Joe

Ok kinda rambled there......what i guess i'm tryin to say is on a ship space is finite so the point values must take into acount that while a AIM-54 and a 2000lb Jdam cost vastly diff amounts of money they take up the same volume about.So just because you have spent more points in unguided doesn't meen you would have that many more weapons or vice-versa.so to be accurate we must come up with an estimate of the internal magazine volume of the ships in question. Also a significant portion of the AOE weps will be dedicated to the SM-1/2/3 and Tlam/Harpoon of the escorts.anyhoo if anyone wants to talk/heckle me my e-mail is there or message me Joe

Ok been gone awhile but back now.....The thing with the point system is that there must be a certain pecentage that is guided vs unguided ....e.g no CVN or AOE carries all guided weps or all unguided weps.What im saying is i think that there should be a seperation of guided vs unguided probably 60% guided in a modern combat enviroment.I was stationed on a CVN and an AS(sub tender) on the carrier my buddy was assigned to the sparrow mount and told me we had 3 reloads for each cell(this was in 90-92) also when on the tender we only carried 36 slbm(posiedon) and 60-70 mk 48s and 12 harpoons and NO Tlam I was ESWS qualed but No one is allowed in the magazines....so i can only hazard a guess but on the CVN you might have like 120 AIM-54 those suckers are big! also 2000lb bombs are also quite big so i think that the points should reflect the size of the weapon as well as the technical aspects. When we were droppin stuff on Iraq we would unrep/vertrep every day......CVN-71 dropped the most tonnage on Iraq so this may be an extreme example they weps were brought on pallets like the parts were e'g engines and tail secions or what ever....but i was an MR(machinest) and we had 7 people in the shop so we had a fairly decent ability to make or fix whatever had broken........anyway once more i stress if we use a point sytem that the guided/unguided must be dealt with differently. hope this helps in some way! any questions feel free to message me p.s we carried 1.2 million gallons of JP-5/4 also 100,000 gallons of fuel oil for the escorts in case something happened to the supply ships. Joe

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Been gone awhile but am back RL can be annoying sometime! Any way here's my one and a half cents 1 Rich wife with a bad heart and no prenup! 2 Multiplayer(how cool would this be!) 3 Logistics (e.g Unrep/Vertrep) would add so much more strategy 4 A persistant campaign/force 5 A better way to handle SAM allocation 6 A way to give reinforcements to the ai scheduled or based on losses 7 A way to have sattelite intelligence modeled for both Blue and Red 8 AI improvement with regard to effective use of forces e.g if they find you use of overwhelming force 9 More realistic modeling of breakdown chances during intense flight ops/sustained flank speed on surface ships 10 The ability to conquer and hold/use enemy ports/airfields for resupply etc 11 Modeling of the difference in training morale and motivation in different countries Thats my one and a half cents thanx for listening.....let the heckling begin!!! Three can keep a secret If two are dead!!

I voted yes...The thing with subs is that alot of essential eqiupment is not easily fixable..i was stationed on a sub tender in Holy Loch workin on boomers for two long years.The main thing is to remember when a sub gets damaged its not only the hull being deformed that is the killer but the oxygen generator/sstg that really are the main things to worry about as without air you cant run the P-250 diesel pump to remove water.without the SSTG's you cant use the electric pumps the boat has hardwired...also the emergancy diesel can provide some speed and power to the boat but is loud and obviously must snorkel for this to happen....also reactor cooling loops dont react well to immense shock damage.you also might have an auto scram because of the shock to the boat from the impact.....any way hope this helps.....just my thoughts...might just be me ramblin tho! regards Joe "3 can keep a secret if 2 are dead"

This an absolute must for large Scenario's .....I actually served on Teddy Ruxbin (CVN-71) from may 90-92 the thing with unrep is you actually used helos for ammo and lines for fuel so you cannot lauch and recover planes while doing this since the ammo gets put on the flight deck thus if there is a oh shit moment it doesn't happen in the hanger bay ...also if i remember right we had 1.2mil gallons of Avgas which sounds like a lot...but isnt that much with the crazy flight ops we run in the game...this would add a wonderful stratigic use of assets instead of just flooding the skies with Aircraft.Also your escorts use a lot of fuel oil when steaming at launch and recover speed.any way if this can be implemented it would be great. Thing with spare parts is the things that break alot (engines) are big and not many are carried by the AOE most of its hull is for food we would onload like 70 pallets just of coke....so in actuallity the amount of reloads would be only about 10% of hull space.but anyway if ican help in anyway please contact me this is no 1 on my wish list(an armed force marches/sails on its stomach) regards Joe p.s also you get water from the evaps so you dont need that one

Hey T i signed up (i think!) hopefully i am able to help....remember im tech daft so will prob only be able to playtest or somethin for dumba**s but i have alot of time on my hands....so if i can help i would be more than willing as it would give somethin productive to do .....had me on some new meds so i havent been too clear headed but used to them now and am back better than ever!!! anyhoo will try to chat later tonite and tom Joe

I am really appriciate you helpin me out ...i am lookin for a long game as again i have a lot of time on my hands (big C) so no work!! kool but kinda boring since not much drinkin now since they ripped my kidney out....lol any hoo got a couple more dunce questions for ya...... Q1 will the AI use the bmbr/attk aircraft on its own e.g. if i attack from a bearing will AI produce its own independant attacks? Q2 Will the tanker assets the AI has been givin be used? or must they be scripted ? Q3 in the scen editor i noticed the SAMs sometimes get placed on water will this affect anything/cause problems? Q4 by tools what do you mean?? again thanx for helpin my tech retarded butt out!!

Hi everbody....got some questions about scen design.....premis is japan has fallen to red forces Tokyo,Hamamatsu have approx 300 aircrat ea 12 sam btys 4 other red airbases same 2 btlle grps (cv/bcgn)20SSGN 20SSN in pacific. Blue forces are 4 Cvn Ed lasner 20 CG/DDG/FFG/AOE Guam/Shemya 130 aircraft ea approx question 1 will ai form its own attacks/movement orders for Aircraft/Subs/Ships or must they all be scripted? Q2 will ai use EW assets intellegently or must they be scripted? Q3 all red bases have 10aew 10-20 ew/recn ac is this enough? Q4 all reb bases have total 20ac on cap (su-35/mig-31) enough? Q5 will friendly asw patrols actually use dipping sonar?sprint and drift techniques? Q6 are there any scen out there with this Ed Lasner class in them that are worth checkin out?....just a cool concept and i want to design some scen around it Q7 is there a way to increase unit numbers e.g sam 21a others so red has a stronger asm/ssm defense? also i am not the sharpest spoon in the tree or all that comp smart but i have alot of time on my hands...not workin due to C lookin for a way to use my long day/nite productivly so in advance sorry if these questions are daft but wpuld appriciate any and all help/advice or general heckling

Just wanted to say ahoy to all been harpoon deficient since 93 just got HCE and H3ANW takes a little gettin used to,but i am gettin back in the swing of it...... btw i am not exactly a comp whiz and this is my first forum post anywher soooo....if i ask any daft questions or seem daft caveat empor