[XenonSurf]

SSGNs are not designed to fight other submarines and usually are escorted by more attack subs like the Akula class. Their job is to reach undetected a key position from where to fire ballistic missiles. Today its unclear if such 'missions' would be useful to any extend, so for me these are cold war tactics that don't fit in today's strategies because of lacking appropriate enemies (besides a nuclear attack would be backfiring to the aggressor in the longer term).


I have played SSNGs in the Russian mod in past game versions by editing the missions I will receive, I set a very low probability for typical attack sub missions and get a 65-85% probability for 'Navy Seals' or TLAM missions which reflect best SSGN missions. Editing some ports to be infiltrated for TLAM attacks is also possible but more complicated, although totally unreallistic: ballistic missiles can strike from far away, no need to infiltrate any port...

It would be nice to have escorts, but in this regard the game is limited. SSGNs are very noisy, they can't hide and you need to chose the runaway tactic if you encounter attack subs. At the current game state playing SSGNs isn't realistic at all - but possible.