Sockeye
07-14-09, 12:35 AM
I wanted to get some feedback on this little situation I was playing through tonight in Harpoon: ANW. Just a simple scenario, but after successfully blockading North Korea once again, the Good Guys got an ROE Violation at endgame due to an apparent mistake on my part when interpreting orders. So….
Orders [verbatim]: “You are to prevent access to or from North Korea by any transport vessels. You are not to engage Chinese units unless you are engaged by them. Preserve your force; losses of any kind are unacceptable in the current political climate.”
After successfully identifying all comers, I dispatched what North Korean sea trucks there were, plus diminished the ranks of their small antique missile-boat squadron, and as a perk, Tomahawked the hangars at Nampo to get pesky MiG-21s off the backs of my team. Throughout my rampage of wanton destruction, I took care to leave the Chinese and neutral vessels alone after fly-overs by my Seahawks.
At some point though, I found that one of those neutral ships had slipped into Nampo harbor. I took her to be docking, and was fully aware that she was neutral, but when the orders tell me to stop “any transport vessels” on course for North Korea, I take that to mean neutral shipping as well—Harpoon’s away! After that, two other neutral vessels were peacefully talked out of heading for Nampo.
So, other than the international headlines having a field day, was I in the wrong with that shot? Was I an overzealous capitalist pirate, simply causing some collateral damage while saving the Free World from another of Kim’s diabolical schemes, or simply saving him the embarrassment of such a scheme ultimately going nowhere?
You tell me!
:)
Orders [verbatim]: “You are to prevent access to or from North Korea by any transport vessels. You are not to engage Chinese units unless you are engaged by them. Preserve your force; losses of any kind are unacceptable in the current political climate.”
After successfully identifying all comers, I dispatched what North Korean sea trucks there were, plus diminished the ranks of their small antique missile-boat squadron, and as a perk, Tomahawked the hangars at Nampo to get pesky MiG-21s off the backs of my team. Throughout my rampage of wanton destruction, I took care to leave the Chinese and neutral vessels alone after fly-overs by my Seahawks.
At some point though, I found that one of those neutral ships had slipped into Nampo harbor. I took her to be docking, and was fully aware that she was neutral, but when the orders tell me to stop “any transport vessels” on course for North Korea, I take that to mean neutral shipping as well—Harpoon’s away! After that, two other neutral vessels were peacefully talked out of heading for Nampo.
So, other than the international headlines having a field day, was I in the wrong with that shot? Was I an overzealous capitalist pirate, simply causing some collateral damage while saving the Free World from another of Kim’s diabolical schemes, or simply saving him the embarrassment of such a scheme ultimately going nowhere?
You tell me!
:)