Your lookouts spot two ships on the horizon. They are not close enough to identify.

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turn_1833_red_intl.txt

FYI, The visual contact is not currently classified and will not be until you say otherwise. The color of the units will depict your "perception" of them. Of course, you already know what blue and red mean, but yellow are unknown units (not yet classified by you) and green are neutral units. At any point you may change your perception of them by letting me know you wish to reclassify a contact. I will then reset the color of the contact for you. The actual side (color) of the contact remains hidden from opposing players unless something obvious gives them away (such as emissions or visual sighting).

On SimPlot Viewer you can create your own range circles as references. Things such as weapon ranges (yours and enemy), radar or sonar ranges, even the distance to the horizon can act as reminders for you. Feel free to experiment with them.

OK. Two units at approximately the expected position sighted at approximately the expected time. Although I would prefer a more positive ID, I'm not prepared to jeopardize the success of my mission to achieve it when circumstantial factors all line up to support a conclusion. As such, I am going to tentatively classify these as blue units.

 

My ideal is to keep them beyond 8.5 nm but within 13.5 nm, allowing me the ability to attack without suffering return fire. To that end, my intention is to activate the Decca, maintain my current heading, and decrease my speed the maximum safely available-- I believe that would put me down to 17 kts this tac turn. I plan to continue to decrease to 10 kts when able, barring some new information. If and when I am able to identify one of these units as larger than the other, I intend to plot Sea Killer II fires on the smaller target, though I will adjust that plan if new sensor data becomes available, and I am prepared to pick a target and begin firing on the off chance that distance to target falls below 10 nm before better data becomes available.